Bottle bought @ Landbierparadies. Labeled only with bockbier but I think this is the right one. Pours clear Amber with a very small frothy beige head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty and floral with dark bread, caramel, hay, moist soil, raisins and subtle hints of alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty, floral and tiny metallic. Mouthfeel is soft, round, very tiny watery and medium bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with dark bread, caramel, toffee, hay, moist soil, minerals and hits of alcohol and iron. Solid malt backbone but a bit light and brought down with some iron in the taste. --- Beer merged from original tick of Hetzelsdorfer Weihnachtsbock on 26 Dec 2015 at 22:04 - Score: 6. Original review text: Jansson, köttbullar, gravlax, sill och så klart BOCK!! Solid malt backbone but a bit thin and metallic.

Bottled (backlog). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is sweet bready malts along with some toffee and mild wooden and herbal notes. Flavour is toffee, sweet ripe fruits, mild herbs, caramel malts as well as some mild toasted notes.

Ins Glas ergießt sich ein dunkel rötlichbraunes Bier mit ordentlicher Schaumkrone. Geruch röstmalzig, leicht schokoladig, Karamell, würzig.

0.5l bottle. Clear amber body, white head. Aroma of grains, bread, toast and floral hops. Taste of grains and bread with a hint of toast and some fruity hops. It’s OK, but I think it could also have some caramel and dark fruit character to it.

4th August 2012
ChrisOs Marvellous Pre GBBF Mega Tasting. Hazy amber beer. tidy cream coloured head. Nutty and creamy malt with a trace of dried fruits. Semi dry finish. Decent.

Bottle at Chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig, 2012, London. Pours lightly hazy amber with a fine, white foam head. Sugary bread nose, some caramel. Medium sweet flavor with tons of sugary caramel. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sugary sweet finish with more caramel. Pretty one-dimensional, but I suppose that’s about all you can expect of most bocks.

Bottle 500ml. @ chriso s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2012.Clear light to medium amber colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, toasted - caramel, oxidide, sugar. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120804]

Amber color with lasting colored foam head. Sweet fruity taste and good alcohol content. Nice lasting sweet palate.

At Chriso pre GBBF Shindig 2012. Mid brown colour some decent malts some decent hop on end. Some toffee. very malty. Ok. 535312 re-rate bottle thanks to ErlangerNick. Clear chestnut colour. Rather a tasty malty beer. Touch of hop on the finish. I rather liked it.

Mild ist die Einleitung in das Bier, trocken, gediegen malzig und alkoholisch süß. Im Mittelteil dazu noch klebrig, das Bier wird trockener. Etwas getreidig, für einen Bock zu mild. Zum Ende etwas würziger aber weiterhin spärlich aromatisch. Nicht sonderlich gelungen. 8/7/6/7/9/6