7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Crystal clear golden colour with tons of small bubbles rising from the bottom and a thin white head. Aroma of hops, metal, caster sugar, grapefruit and some other fruits. Light-bodied; Crisp banana/bubble gum flavours roaming the palate with some citrus twang followed by a subtle hoppiness. Mild up front, then actually fading into more of a nice flavour! Aftertaste is fairly clean, but some malt is noticeable and refreshing. Overall, this one started off a bit bad, but quickly made some way, and is very respectable fro the style! I bought this twelve ounce bottle from Beers of the World (with a vastly different label) in Rochester, New York and sampled it on 12-December-2003.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2003
at 22:09
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottled(500ml). -golden coloured, light palate, yeast aroma, sweet finish with not so good aftertaste
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2003
at 13:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled at Oktoberfest. -pale yellow with good white head, malty taste, quite refreshing after few hours in a smoked tent
Tried
on 04 Nov 2003
at 13:30
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Sampled at Oktoberfest, Münich, "Oktoberfestbier Edelstoff Hell"
Golden color. Nice malty and hoppy aroma, but average flavor and too sweet lager.
Golden color. Nice malty and hoppy aroma, but average flavor and too sweet lager.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2003
at 08:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bam! This beer is huge - dark, dark brown with intense carbonation - nose full of molassas, brown sugar and dates - flavor contains the same, with hints of espresso and cookie dough - this beer straight-up kicks ass - if you don’t like it, there is clearly something wrong with you.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2003
at 11:33
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled. Cloudy deep orange. Appley nose, clean fizzy mouthfeel, yeasty finish. Too clean, just like Erdinger, but thankfully not that sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2003
at 05:33
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Quite obvious score with a low StdDev, which i am going to improve. Because that is what it is worth, a 3.1. Very cloudy golden orange color, short head. Very one-way spicy wheat aroma. Quite standard german wheat taste, but not refreshing and not complex. Nothing special.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2003
at 15:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle). Beautiful chestnut colour, very good head. Aroma of caramel, dried fruits, oak and roasted malts, initially weak but improves as the beer warms up. Roasted malts and some caramel in the flavour, still a bit thin mouthfeel. Relatively short aftertaste without much bite. A decent Munich dunkel, but I did like the Neumarkter Lammsbräu better!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2003
at 11:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Nutty toffee aroma, slightly hoppy. Deep brown, creamy brown head. Oily sticky mouthfeel in the aftertaste, perhaps this is only evident because the tastenotes are rather light and exit fast. Easy accessable Doppelbock.
Vertical tasting against 2 year old one:The old Maximator has gained a sweet oak and port aromanote (would get an 8), but has lost the fruity berrylike freshness of the young beer. Sweet wooden notes are more pronounced in the old one, however the mouthfeel is thinner. The young one feels rounder. Carbonation is still good in the old one and it has a roasted wooden aftertaste.
Vertical tasting against 2 year old one:The old Maximator has gained a sweet oak and port aromanote (would get an 8), but has lost the fruity berrylike freshness of the young beer. Sweet wooden notes are more pronounced in the old one, however the mouthfeel is thinner. The young one feels rounder. Carbonation is still good in the old one and it has a roasted wooden aftertaste.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2003
at 13:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Almost black. Burned aroma. "dark" sirupy taste. A bit sticky aftertaste. Most interesting dunkel to date.
Tried
on 02 Nov 2002
at 04:29