Malt and salt in the aroma. Malt and licorice in the flavor. Butter and salt. Hardly any bitterness. Still a tasty beer.

Bottle: Deep copper coloured, small stable off-white head; sweet honeyish-caramelly nose with a delicate toasty and hoppy background; moderate to solid sweet-bitter flavour, medium to full bodied; increasing bitterness in the caramelly-hoppy finish, followed by a warming alcohol-burnin the drier hoppy aftertaste. Not too exciting, but all in all a very pleasnt brew....

(bottle, 33cl) Clear, brown colour with a medium-sized tanned foamy head. Toasty malty aroma with notes of bread, caramel and vanilla, accompanied by a subtle dried fruity touch. Moderately sweet flavour, medium bodied with a pleasantly smooth carbonation. Toast-malty, slightly bready taste with caramel and hints of cacao; moderately sweet and slightly toasty malty finish with a balancing and slightly hoppy bitterness. Well-rounded Bock. 25.II.11

Had this as Jubiläumsbier for the 600 year jubilee of the city Velburg. Bottle looks great, beer in the glass dark, small head. Starts malty and dry, not to roasty, some hints of caramel. Finish well balanced, malty, modest spicy, quite drinkable. Good beer!

Bottle looks really good. Beer in the glass very dark, almost black. Starts strong. but not alcoholic. Some caramel notes in the background, modest sweet. Also some mild coffee notes. Finish well balanced, a bit warming, quite drinkable for a bock. Really liked it!

Bottle 500ml. @ home.ABV. 5.4%. Clear medium to dark red brown color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted,caramel,sweet malt, bread notes. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet, light light sweet acidic and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, acrid bitter, dry, good food beer. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20101014]

The bottle looks good, the beer in the glass also. Dark, huge head. Starts malty and dry, not too roasty, Spicy notes, also a bit rusty-earthy. Finish milder. Not bad!

Bottled (from mein-biershop.de). Deep rubyish brown colour with mediumsized beige head. Aroma is caramel malts, some mild earthy and mouldy notes along with some mild spices. Flavour is caramel malts, some mild raisins, sweet malts as well as some mild notes of hops and yeast. A quite balanced brew, but a bit strange.

Bottle: Pale greenish-golden, medium-sized white fluffy head; grainy-strawy nose with a light acidity; moderate sweetish-bitter flavour, light bodied, sticky MF; shorter sweet-bitter finish with a tart bitterness in the aftertaste. Not moreish....