(bottle) Clear, dark brown colour with a fluffy, light-beige foamy head. Light-sweet, moderately roastey malty nose with light notes of toffee, traces of barnyard a distinctive herbal hoppy touch. Light-bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Moderately roasty malty taste, light notes of caramel/toffee and herbal accents; moderately dry and bitter finish with a pleasant herbal hops character. A bit slim but drinkable Franconian Schwarzbier (23.01.08).

Bottle (purchased at the pivovar): Deep golden to very light amber coloured, small, but persistent off-white head, sweet-malty (with a tinge of toasted malt) nose, backed by delicate traces of hops and barnyard; moderate to solid sweet-bitter flavour, light to medium bodied, soft MF; moderate sweet-malty finish with a good dash of hops comong late. Average by franconian standards, excellent by german..............

Bottle(purchased at the brasserie): Clear, light amber coloured, small, quickly vanishing foamy layer, delicate sweet-malty and caramelly nose with a touch of vegetables; moderate sweet-bitter flavour, medium bodied; faint caramelly traces in the sweet-bitter-metallic finish. Unharmonic, disappointing............

(bottle) Clear, golden colour with a short, slightly off-white foamy head. Sweet, cara-malty nose, slightly buttery with a tinge of honey and herbal hoppy accents in the background. Soft bitter flavour with a rounded malty sweetness, light to medium bodied, smooth carbonation. Cara-malty, lightly bready taste with herbal notes in the wings; moderately dry and sweet, malt-accented and slightly herbal hoppy finish. Okay, without ups and downs.

(bottle) Clear, amber coloured with a medium-sized, light-beige foamy head. Sweet, nutty and toast-malty nose with caramel and a noticeable alcoholic touch. Sweet flavour, medium bodied with a smooth carbonation. Toast-malty, nutty taste with caramel and light burnt sugar notes; sweet and moderately toasted malty finish with a present but not too disturbing alcoholic touch. Decent and warming Bock.

Bottled. Yellow colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is grass, saltwater and some hops. Flavour is bigtime grassy hops. Pleasant, but not very exciting.

Bottle from Landbierparadies, Nurnberg. Cloudy amber with a big, foamy white head. Aroma of grassy hops and herbs. Flavours of caramel and hay before a decent dry finish. Very enjoyable.

(Bottle) Amber coloured and very hazy with a large, thick head. Caramel and apple aroma. Malty and chewy with faint notes of liquorice. Quite bitter finish.

Bottled, alc. 4.8% (BB 02/2006)
Copper brown, very small white head. Malty, sweetish, a bit herbal and ryeish aroma. Medium-bodied. Grassy-hoppy with even chocolaty notes. Long hoppy grassy aftertaste. Very difficult to rate: is this cheap crap beer or complex and interesting lager? I presume this being latter.