Pours deep velvet coffee black with a full, tan creamy froth. Aroma is infused with cocoa and coffee. Full nectar w/ residual effers. Flavors are dry with fruity cocoa puffs, rich coffee, a slight leathering, and sour dough bread w/ a nice bittering on the finish. Well ballanced. Drinks well cool. This stuff is awsome. Highly recommended.

This is quite simply one of the best Bock’s that I’ve ever tried. The Anchor Brewery sure can kick out some fantasitc beers!

Enjoyed 2 pint glasses of this beer on draught at Frisco’s Cantinia in Columbia, MD in May of 06, and just enjoyed it on draught at the Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, CA in July of 06. Pours to a deep caramel to brown color, with a thick, creamy, off white head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is very nice, with aromas of sweet malt, light toast, and nutty malt aroma. The palate is firm, with good sweet malt, toasty and nutty malt flavor. Body is very clean and round, with very light esters, due to the fact this beer is brewed with an ale yeast strain. Anchor Bock finishes with more really good smooth maltiness up front, then ends slightly cloying with a sweet and nutty edge that lingers. Very well done bockbier from a legendary San Francisco brewery. I really enjoyed this one, and hopfully distribution will be bigger for next year’s spring release.

After being unimpressed with my first couple sips, I soon found this to be excellent. It is almost opaque black, rather like a darker porter, with a fairly big, long-lasting dark tan head that slowly shrinks, never vanishes, and leaves very nice lacing. The aroma is alcoholic burtn caramel, toast, a hint of chocolate, caramelized prunes and other fruit. It is reminiscent of a milk or oatmeal stout but not quite as heavy. The taste is similar, with the same elements as above. It starts off rather dry with a light bitterness and faint sourness but becomes more full-bodied with a nice sweetness coming after a few sips. It has a light peppery quality in the finish, along with the toast, burnt caramel, fruit. The chocolate quality is exceedingly faint but, just barely, noticeable. It is exceedingly smooth and drinkable.

12 oz. Nearly opaque chocolate with ruby tints. Three finger head settles to a creamy half-inch. Earth-spiced chocolate and caramel-covered raisins in the nose. Maybe some juniper? Flavor is the same as their Christmas Ale except thinner and maybe slightly drier. Piquant-spicy juniper, chocolate-covered blackberry, dates, caramel, more earthy spices (anise?) and some resin. Medium-heavy body is watery, lightly carbonated and finishes almost astringently dry. Doesn’t taste like any other Bock I’ve tried except maybe the exceptional Doppel/Weizenbocks.