5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
$2.25 for a small eight ounce glass. A little more golden than the ubiquitous pale yellow american lager beer, but just as clear. Aroma is rather candy like. Nice thick white head that does not fade. Taste is rather friendly, lacking any hop bitter bite but has enough personality to let you know this you are drinken German style beer. Good tingly carbonation for a tap. Finish is mildly bitter and hangs for a while. Rather enjoyable, just what I was expecting for an alt. Nice beer from Penn. Only available on tap at the brewery.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Mar 2008
at 12:14
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pour is an orangish gold with lots of bubbles rising to the surface and a little bit of haze to it. Head is fairly minimal. Aromas are reminiscent of Oktoberfest... heavy malt, sweet, honey and bread. Flavor is more of the same, but a bit of a fruity presence comes in and the alcohol is fairly detectable. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2008
at 20:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Brown-amber color. Aroma is sweet and mild. Flavor is sweet and drinkable, with some chocolate and amber notes. Medium bodied, not unlike a Dunkle. A mild crispy hoppy character helps to balance the beer out. Pretty good beer, certainly an enjoyable seasonal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2008
at 19:45
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Crystal clear golden coloured body with a very thin white head and a few bubbles rising from the bottom - doesn’t look too good. Aroma of somewhat stale malt, a dose of hops, yeast, wheat and a ton of lemons. Light-bodied; Super mild malty taste coupled with some light coriander seed and lemony sweetness in the taste. Aftertaste shows basically nothing - hardly any tastes at all. Overall, very mild, almost non-existent when th taste is had. Definitely worth passing on this, but I was happy to try this beer regardless. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 01-March-2008.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2008
at 02:24
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pour is a coppery color that is getting on to brownish. Pretty high initial head, but dies down leaving little more than a bubbly film on the surface. Aromas are sweet and grainy: butterscotch and bread dough. Flavor is about the same with a little bit more of a complexity to the sweetness through the addition of honey and sweet date flavors. Still, comes off as thin... with malt presence not providing quite enough umph to finish well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2008
at 14:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle-pours a rich foamy light tan head and dark mahogany color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, fruit, roasty. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel/some chocolate, quite fruity, roasty, secondary light hops bite. Medium body with light, sweet finish. OK carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2008
at 20:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle pours a deep clear copper with thin to weak tan head. It has that nice Marzen, to me, aroma with malt sweetness having a caramel note and Munich to grainy maltiness with a hint of prunes. Overall the nose is on the light side. The taste is both grainy Munich malts and sweeter malts along with roasted malts and faint caramel. I also get a small bite from vague hop bitterness. I even get chocolate malts too. There are roasted malt notes that really linger deep into the after taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2008
at 22:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Batch #001. Pours a dark caramel brown color. Aroma is a sweet malt. Flavor is a slightly sweet, full flavored roasted malt. The aftertaste is a bit sweet, and has a slight hop kick to it. Slight oak flavor as well. I haven’t had the regular Nikolaus Bock, so I don’t know how different this one may be from it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2008
at 22:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Nice chunky brown coloured body with a perfect sized tan head. Nearly perfect for the style. Aroma of roasted malt, nuts, cherries, pit fruits and a bit of alcohol - fairly nice. Medium-bodied; Roasted malt up front with hints of nuts and raisins with some plums shortly behind. Aftertaste shows mostly must and metal - nothing special here! Overall, a decent beer, showing some promise but having it fade away slowly near the end. Worth trying, but don’t be expecting an amazing dunkel. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 15-January-2008.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2008
at 00:47
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
22 oz bottle. Pours a golden color with a medium-small white head. Aroma is sweet. Flavor is standard lager-like, with notes of citrus and spice. It’s carbonated, but not in the bad way. Good with a meal but that’s about it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2008
at 01:53