12 ounce bottle into pilsener glass, bottled 1/18/2012. Pours crystal clear reddish brown color with a nice 1-2 finger dense tan head with fantastic retention that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Some decent lacing on the glass, with plenty of carbonation streaming up. Aromas of light chocolate, biscuit, toasted malt, apricot, fig, raisin, caramel, molasses, and herbal hops. Nice aromas, with a good amount of balance and decent strength. Taste of caramel, chocolate, biscuit, raisin, fig, prune, molasses, toasted malt, and herbal hops. Nice balance of flavors with a decent amount of robustness; and no cloying sweetness. Medium carbonation and body; with a slight creamy and very smooth mouthfeel. Alcohol is very well hidden with hardly any warming present at all on the finish. Overall this is a very nice and enjoyable bock. Nice toasted flavors with good balance, and very smooth to drink. A nice session beer candidate.

Rich like a black forest cake. Aroma of sweet malts, some honey, licorice, and a little roasty bready malts. dark brown pour with a white head that dissipated very quickly. Molasses, honey, and bread in the flavor, towards the end of the pint, things got a little too sickly sweet for me, the sugars dominate the flavor.

Bottle. Sweet molasses malt aroma. Brown with a small tan head. Light sweet malt, charred toast, and a lingering bitter flavor.Medium body with a slightly dry finish..

Pours medium brown color with tan head. Aromas of dark fruit and caramel. Toasted malt flavor with some raisins and dates. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Bottle @ Timbers, Denver. Pours very dark brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma of malt, caramel, nuts, bit of hops. Taste is malt, toast, burnt caramel, grapefruity hops. Medium body, soft carbonation, dry finish. 280212

Bottle @ home. Deep brown appearance with a light brown head. Super toasty, burnt bready, creamy, nutty aroma. Creamy, burnt, toasty malty, nutty, a touch charred flavor. I haven’t had this one in a few years but it’s not as good as I remembered.

355ml bottle

Pours dark brown with a medium beige head. Aroma of chocolate, cookies, caramel malts and coffee. Taste is quite malty and bready with notes of rye, caramel and sweet syrup. Finish has bitter and malty notes. Okay, well balanced bock.

Colabrown beer with a medium, beautiful, thick and light brown head. Aroma is malty, berries, strawberries, nice aroma. Taste is also malty, berries, some roasted malts, more bitterness than usually at bocks, and bitterness is sightly wooden. Medium bodied with medium carbonation, however, less carbonation could be better. Quite nice beer, but I expected more because of great brewer. Malty and surprisingly, lots of berries in this bock.

35,5 cl bottle @ home, BBE 12/2012
Flavour is rather interesting mix of American hops and roasted malt typical to bocks. Exotic fruits and hints of coffee, chocolate, licorice and berry juice. Flavour is hoppy too with exotic fruits at the beginning and finish with coffee, chocolate and licorice. Also Anchor house flavour is present. A bit thin palate. Really not your typical bock but rather unique and nice, especially when looking at the ABV.

Bottle. Very dark brown with medium tan head. Flavour is malt, chocolate, caramel, hops, bitter, roasted malts, nuts and dark fruit.