Clear brilliant gold body with a long lasting off-white head. Clean malty aroma, fragrant. Malt dominiates the flavor and the hops stay in the background where they should be in a good Bock. Good solid Helles Bock.

Golden bock with almost no head. Caramel and oxidized notes in aroma, light nuttyness. Mash tun malt, crisp and smooth, a bit cardboardy. Medium bodied, oily mouthfeel. Mondial 2006.

Light copper pour with short, off-white head that quickly disappeared. No lacing to speak of. The aroma invoked sweet malts, grass and a hint of caramel. The beer tasted of caramel and malts — grass, earth — followed by a bitter finish. The palate is smooth to start with a slightly sticky, syrupy finish. Medium body and adequately carbonated. Above average and enjoyable.

Bright copper colour. Toasty, malty character is both lively and rounded, an important and oft-overlooked feature of the style. Warms and refreshes, with clean malts and good depth of body.

Draught dimpled mug at SHPH on 4/27/06
Light marigold body with some deeper brass and beige-cream tones, moderate to high clarity, with a full, white head on top that is well-retained, eventually fading to partial cover and ring, little to no lacing.
The nose is grainy, but not overly bready. More of a husky, light malted note, very light munich malt and perhaps something like caravienne or another biscuit malt. Caramel slowly creeps in, with a light sourness emerging as well, brought on by the munich and/or yeast. Round, bubbly fruits play about on the nose; nectarines, unripened peaches, pears even, while a fruity and mildly tangy hoppiness adds more complexity, but not much dryness and nearly no bitterness. A profound, but subtle honey note is notable, really breaking up the huskiness and delivering more of a pilsener quality, at times, but the yeast fights back, asserting the more bock-like notes in time. Alcohol is not apparent, aroma strength is medium.
Heavy honey sweetness, with a smooth, honeyish texture wraps about the mouth, coating it in fairly thick sugars, while grassy-herbal hops quickly go to work on cutting the sweetness. This is done with flavor, and very little bitterness. Light munich malt sourness is very lazy, only emerging after fully warming and breathing, and even then, it still shares domain with the strong honey maltiness. Yeast builds lightly on end, but it is a more drinkable example, without the intense breadiness/drying notable of some examples of the style. Very smooth, even, flowing texture, with lightly prickly carbonation that actually helps break up the sweetness and aids in presenting the hops and gives it an overall clean feeling.
I could envision more malt depth with this, and perhaps a shade more attenuation, to really add some livliness/brightness to it, but due to the lighter nature of the malts and the relaxed yeastiness/munich malt notes, it is still quite drinkable. Graininess adds substance to the body, with no alcohol noted in flavor and no wateriness.
I’m afraid to try the bottles, so I probably won’t.

Clear light caramel color with a medium creamy white head. Sweet malty and caramel aroma. Sweet malt flavor with some corn and grain in the end.

22 oz bomber from the brewery. The contracted stuff. Poured into thin tulip glass with no head. The color is a light copper/dark orange. Can see through the beer. The smell is fantastic, grassy and very present. Body is light medium. Goes down smooth, nothing discernable in the taste but smooth. A very fine spring beer, perfect for drinking in the sun.

I had this on tap at the Blind Tiger, and it seemed pretty off to me - either it was a bad keg, or Blind Tiger hasn’t been cleaning its lines (which I doubt) - had a nice copper apearance and an aroma mostly dominated by honey and apples - but the flavor was quite tart - it almost tasted infected - the malty sweetness others experienced with this beer were not present at all - I was going to refrain from rating this, but if the beer was contaminated in some way, that speaks to the quality of the product, and I expect more from them - even if it was infected, though, it still wasn’t a horrible experience to drink.