Old Chico Pale Bock
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Heller Bock Spring|
Score
6.31
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Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Dark yellow color, thin head. Full flavor of sweet malt followed by a crisp, moderately bitter finish. Lasting hoppy bitter aftertaste.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Frothy white head on a well carbonated unclear pale amber coloured body. Malt, cigarette & newspaper aroma. Medium bodied, soft over the tongue with a heavy cloying back. Sweet, malt, syrup, peach & grain tastes with a big hitting peppery finish. Standard.
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 15
Can online from the Cascade Club. Pours clear pale gold with a decent white cap. Aroma: toasted malt, bread. Taste: moderate sweet & light to moderate bitter, toasted grains, bread dough, honey. Medium body with foamy carbonation
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can, 6.8% ABV. Gold with a large white head. Aroma of dough, light biscuit, spice, some lemon. Fat and rich but the maltiness doesn't overstay its welcome because it dries out enough at the end and there's decent amount of fairly discreet bitterness. By the end of a big glass (this can is 473.18ml) this sort of thing is usually cloying, harsh or both but this is neither.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16 oz can. Pours a clear golden amber with a white head. Aroma light honey and biscuit. Flavor is again honey and biscuit, with a very light toastiness and some floral hops. Well done.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at the SN tap room. Pours amber gold with a white head. Lite citrus aroma. Med + body. Flavor of light malt, tho not really bready, and citrus. Neither sweet nor dry. Mildly bitter. Rather refreshing and pretty drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft at Taphouse. Medium brown color, off white head. Aroma of caramel, taste is like a dilute bock. Pretty average.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Pale gold coloured body with not head at all! Aroma of pale malt and cardboard. Medium-bodied; Strong malty and metallic taste. Aftertaste bitter and strong - not sweet nor terribly pleasant. Overall, decent but great to finally try this one! I sampled this beer on draught at O’Briens in San Diego, California on 23-September-2006.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught pint at Sunset Grill on 6/23/07
Mostly clear, buttered popcorn colored body topped by a small, mostly diminishing off-white head that leaves some blotchy lacing.
Sweet, heavy honey-dough in the nose wraps about the nostrils with a pinch of herbal hoppiness inserted as an afterthought. Vanilla icing and light caramel intensify the sweetness, but add some moderate complexity. The dryness and "lager" character of the beer immediately seem questionable, though as it warms, there is a touch of dry yeast and definitely some emerging breadiness from the malts that "helps" to dry it out. I say helps, but it never really comes off as very dry in the nose. Perhaps a touch of medicinal qualities? It’s tough to separate the yeast character and herbal hops from what might be problematic phenols, as herbal hops and lager yeast tend to be very similar in aroma to certain peppery/medicinal phenols. Anyways, even if it is (doubtful), it’s marginally apparent. Medium strength of aroma overall, with no alcohol present.
Upon first sip, it comes of very sweet, and oddly slick (like oily almost). Partly due to the low carbonation, no doubt, but I’m not sure that’s the only reason. Vanilla icing and overly sweet honeyish malts build up and sort of wallop the palate. As it warms, more of the breadiness comes out and dries the beer, especially on the end, just as in the aroma. But again, it’s certainly got a huge sweetness to it, especially right away, and the sweetness is not a very elegant maltiness, but more of a simple sugariness. Herbal, obviously German hoppiness seems a little less than fresh, and sort of half-assed at that, but does at least provide something else to think about besides the heavy sweetness. I’ve never been a fan of bready maltiness used for balance, and though the style certainly has leeway for being sweet, I just think it’s a bit much. Too much wateriness on the finish, as well. No alcohol noted, however, and definitely nothing phenolic in the flavor.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Clear golden amber body with a small off-white head. Light fruity malt aroma. Sweet sugary fruit flavor with a malty corn kick.