5 Seasons Me262 Maibock

Brewed by 5 Seasons Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Atlanta, Georgia USA

On tap at the brewpub on 6/3/08: Pours a transparent copper bronze with a frothy clingy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of sweet caramely and grainy German malt with some slightly bready notes and light fruity esters. Body starts fairly full and light caramely and Munich malty sweet with a slightly earthy noble hop balance and a semi-sweet authentic finish. An enjoyable Maibock.

Pours a dark, clear coppery color with a decent fine-bubbled copper-cream head. Rich aroma is spicy - cloves and cinnamon - and malty. Mouth-filling malty flavor has an undertone of cinnamon and cloves, as well as hints of caramel and banana. Texture is pleasingly smooth and tingly, and it leaves a nice spicy aftertaste.
Earlier Rating: 5/28/2007 Total Score: 4.5
Color is a beautiful clear reddish-brown with a thick head. Aroma is hoppy and has a toffee hint. Flavor has noticeable hoppy and malty components, with nutty undertones and a whisper of toffee or caramel. Sweet and bitter tastes balance very nicely and complement each other. Heartily recommended!

Very malty aroma, that screams bubblegum, and sweet maltiness that follows through into the flavor, rich caramel sweetness, that rides a wave of honey and citrus bitterness in the finish, but does not carry on from there, the finish just drops right off leaving no lingering flavors on the palate. Overall not bad, but not worth writing home about.

Draught @ brewery Very nice malty lager. color is spot on for Einbecker Maibock. Copper not gold like other maibocks. I don’t get the huge malt aroma or flavor of a bock, nor the slight fusel alcohol taste that should be there.

On top at the restaurant. Clear as all hell (very impressive), with a thin head of micro bubbles. Smells of corn, molasses, and cherry bubblegum. Upon the first sip, I remark to myself that maibocks are usually thicker than this in my experience; lots of unfermented sugars it seems just floating around; smooth; dark grains dominate the middle; subdued citrus fruit throughout, like oranges or kiwi; no lacing, and not much carbonation at all. Warming. You get a bit of hops at the end, but nothing to write about.

Date: 05/06/2003
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

hazy amber, big frothy white head, drippy lace, sweet malt aroma, big malt flavor, lots of carmel sweetness, just enough bitterness to keep it balanced and from being too sweet
-------- /> Date: 05/05/2005

ditto, ditto, ever so ditto
-------- /> Date: 05/04/2006
Source: aa
Score: iii to ii+

a bit drier than last year with some good hop flavor to balance,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

Tap: Golden amber color with a medium white head. Aroma and flavors are sweet, malty, with fruit running through. Medium body finishes with a light hop bitterness.

Pours golden amber with good white head. Malty and fruity in the aroma. Lots of body. Flavor is malty as a bock should be, but balances more to the hops. I think this one is better than last years version and better than some of the others from this brewer recently.