Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap. Clear amber color with white head. Aroma is caramel, papery malts, grains, decent grassiness. Taste is the same. Foamy carbonation, grainy finish. Alright.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap pours out copper topped with a small sand head. Nose is light caramel malts some pitfruit and a little spice. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts pitfruit and some spice.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Apparently hadn't rated this yet, although I had it many times. Clear golden colour, rocky white head with fair retention. Aroma's of malts, grain, some hops. Flavour is light moderate sweet with a light moderate bittern backbone. Medium bodied. Bitterness increases towards the finish. Pretty much how a Maibock should be (duh).

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Gabriel - Cheers! 🍻🍻 Thin beige head on a slowly carbonating clear amber coloured body. Pine, outdoors & herbal aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a lively back cloying back. Caramel, malt, berries & herbal tastes with a dry finish. Solid.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Clear golden. Short lasting head. Sweet malts followed by some alcohol and then just pure sugar. Dried apricot, tea, camomile, caramel, pine wood. Quite sweet, medium bitter. Slick sugary body with low carbonation. Doesn’t get me very excited.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

April is in full swing and after a few rainy weeks, spring weather is forecasted in Belgium next week - so it is about time for an old German Maibock, and what brewery to better address for this than Einbecker, located in the very town where the Bock family in general was invented in the 16th century, even though the pale spring variant seems to have been invented in Munich in 1614 (still top-fermented at that time). Thick and frothy, egg-white, very moussy, regularly shaped and small-bubbled, plastery lacing, stable head on a crystal clear peach blonde robe with 'old golden' glow and disparate, fine sparkling; remains clear till the end so obviously filtered. Aroma of dry crackers, young linden leaves, hawkbits, unripe apricot, artisanal honey, white bread crust, a vague whiff of stale urine, mugwort shoots in spring, hard green pear (Conference), something vaguely sulfuric or 'burnt' in the background, grass. Clean, crisp onset, refreshing with underlying minerality but not just from the carbonation (which is lively but fine-bubbled), some 'green' and unripe fruitiness but in a non-estery, malty kind of way (green pear, unripe apricot); smooth, slick but relatively 'full' and rounded body, cereally and lightly cracker-like, 'pure' malt sweetishness with a touch of linden honey to it (but this could be my spring-inspired imagination). The sweetness remains thin and feeble, though, and gradually makes room for a floral and grassy, bit leafy hop bitter element, adding a gentle dryness to the finish but remaining well in balance with the malts. A touch of gin-like alcohol seems noticeable and something 'cooked' remains (pasteurization!) - two aspects I was not expecting, because the first should not be noticeable at all at this strength and the second lends the whole beer an industrial 'macro' feel I was hoping to avoid. Points off for that - this Maibock clearly is not the most solid beer in their otherwise decent portfolio, but my craving for a refreshing German 'spring Lager' is satisfied still. Delicate features here and there, but the pasteurization is a big 'argument contra' for me - so weighing all the elements here, let us conclude with an average rating. Expected just a bit more, to be entirely honest.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Appearance: Clear pale amber with a moderate ivory-coloured frothy head of medium retention. Aroma: Grain, bread, toast, candy, some esters, distant hop. Taste: medium sweet, light to medium bitter. Grain, bread, toast, grassy hop, candy, some esters. Hoppy ending. Mouth feel: Full body, soft to average carbonation. Overall: Pretty solid.

Tastes like a very very heavy helles. It is clean, more hoppy than usual. But not incredibly drinkable. Graeff hamburg