Zehendner Mönchsambacher Maibock

Brewed by Brauerei Zehendner
Style: Heller Bock
Burgebrach-Mönchsambach, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein

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Bottle kindly given to me by Gerhard at Café Abseits in Bamberg. Slightly hazy golden/orange with a lasting thick cream head. Looks really carbonated, I may have to decant this to get some of the gas out of it. Slightly perfumed aroma. Good light bock but with a definite alcohol punch. Some hop, I know it’s called a Maibock, but it does actually taste of May. Like May blossom. Really drinkable. Alcohol is hidden well. Yep really tasty.

Draught @ Cafe Abseits. Pours hazy golden with a white head. Shows a lot of similarities with this brewers regular lagerbier, citrus crisp etc. Altough this one is a lot heavier. Lots of honey! Its also quite alcoholic (too alcoholic if you ask me...).

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, malty, sugar, light hay. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, malty, bock alike. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110819]

Sweet malty aroma wheat fruity. Botella. Sweet wheaty frlavourb fruity, good, pleasant

Golden with a small white head. Grainy malt aroma with a touch of hay. Sweet malty flavour with herbal hops, decent bitter finish

Bottle. A clear one, except for microfloaties, golden in color and topped by a finger-thick white head. Quite hoppy on the nose, grassy and lightly peppery. Pine cone notes too. Full-bodied, nicely carbonated and slighlty warming. The flavor is bitter, with the maltyness subdued. Lasting bitter finish too. Certainly one of the best heller bocks I’ve had. 110819

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are yeast, malt and hops.

Bottle @ FOneFan. Hazy dark yellow with big white head. Flavour is malt, hops, sweet, little bitter and grainy.

Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, Ulfborg 2011. From Cafe Abseits, Bamberg. Pours cloudy golden with a creamy white head and lacings. Sweet grains and alcohol. A bit of bread and hay. Medium bodied.

Bottle (@ Café Abseits, BA): Hazy, golden, big stable white head, moderate hoppy and woody nose with a light yeasty background; moderate bitter-sweet flavour, medium bodied soft; lingering hoppy finish with a malty counterpart. Glorious franconian Bock.....