Sudwerk Maibock

Brewed by Sudwerk Privatbrauerei Hubsch
Style: Heller Bock
Davis, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Stein

On tap. Pours with a clear orange body with a tan ring. Aroma is toasty and caramel. Taste is diacetyl, caramel and candy corn. Some flavors that remind me of milk. Light bubbles. Not as good as most of Sudwerk’s German style offerings.

One of the sweetest, full body beers I’ve had that somewhat fall under lager. Muted, but present and tasty hops, go with a sweet malt and is mostly devoid of lager’s metal and other less good characters. A well made beer.

Bottle; first beer from Sudwerk under their own label. Poured a vibrant orange/amber color with an off white head. Aroma of sweet malt, caramel, bread, and some lightly toasted elements. A bit of earthy hopping in the finish too, but not much. Flavor was less sweet than expected. More hoppy, with a lot of earthiness in the finish. Alcohol is about as present as you’d expect. Some light grassy notes. Malty backbone is always present, but not as assertive as many in the style. A pretty solid brew, and unexpected in a few ways.

A golden bock with a thick white head. In aroma, a light malt, rather sweet, with light fruity esters. In mouth, fruity malts, light esters of bananas, mineral notes. Medium bodied. On tap at brewpub, August 27 2009.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Clear golden with a dense off-white head. Intensely sweet malty nose. Solid body with sweetish malt and a little sulphur. Subdued bitterness. 100709

12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Sweet and light malty aroma. Sweet malty and light fruity hops flavoured. Mild bitter and cornish to malty flavoured finish.

Bottled. A pale golden beer with an off-white head. The is sweet malty with metallic notes of alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, and some alcohol, leading to a lightly bitter and lightly alcoholic finish.

Poured orange amber, simple, sweet malts, bready, little hops, little caramel.