5 Seasons Me262 Maibock

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

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!

ReRate: A year later. I noticed more hops this year, not quite as malty. Deep amber color with nie head. Some hints of spice in the middle. Definate hops finish

A very spicy nose. I'd almost say black pepper for the aroma, but not quite. Pepper is present in the flavor however and fits in very nicely with the light malt. One of the breweries better offerings, although still suffering from that watery nature.

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 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.

This critter does waver into IPA territory, so it loses a little on faithfulness to style. The aroma is floral and sweet - freshness abounds. The malt appears in the flavor, and rides and even balance right through the end with the cascade of west coast hops. Better than average, but not as big as the higher ABV version could be.

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.

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.