6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Very hazy light yellow appearance. Fresh pale malt aroma with light banana notes. Sweet, creamy character, fresh-tasting with the esters and phenols kept rather subdued, leaving the focus to the pale malts.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2005
at 11:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
(draught from lagertank) Very clear, deep chestnut. Slight head, lacey. Nose of smoked ham and parsley. Dark malts, also, of course. (Glass used was bad - off-smell disregarded.) Several 'layers' of smokiness in the taste, nowhere exaggerated. Impression of saltiness. More like Spezial than like Schlenkerla. Retronasal taste like chestnut flour. Medium-bodied. Long smoky, slightly sweet aftertaste. GREAT Rauchbier!
Tried
on 01 Oct 2003
at 09:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Chestnut brown; creamy - yellowish head. Nose as from fresh German brown bread, quite yeasty. Taste is predominantly sweet with good bitter, shrublike flavour. Again bread flavour and molasses. Well-bodied, warming. This is a good, tru-to-nature Bock. Not really exciting but more than halfway decent.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2003
at 08:57
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Yellow, greenish shine. Nearly no head. Nose with obligatory banana - cloves, but OK. Quite sweet, a bit too for my liking, bubblegum. Tinge of mint in the flavour. Medium-bodied. Typical, and it would fit in Germany, very true to the originals.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2003
at 08:54
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(draught from lagertank) Very pale yellow, huge white head. Slightly smoked nose, slightly citrussy. Slight corn taste. There is just a tad of hops retronasal. Light bodied, but the corn (?) seems to fill it up a bit. Good light beer, but tasted at very low temp.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2003
at 08:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
(draught from lagertank)Gold colour. Thick white-yellow head, good lace. Nice hoppy smell + cookies in the best balance. Taste are cookies + hops (Saaz!) but the hops are gone after a few sips, except shortly retronasal. Slightly burnt cookie taste, rather medium bodied. Not really Czech style, but more than worth a try.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2003
at 08:45