Bavaria Spring Bock

Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Heller Bock
Tilburg, Netherlands

Bottle 0,3ltr:Orange coloured meibok from Bavaria, but much too comercial.

Slightly darker in appearance than a pilsener. Mild, pleasant aroma which is slightly sweet and alcoholic. Aniseed also comes through in the aroma. The aniseed becomes quite a dominant flavour and has a slightly tongue numbing effect. It’s technically good but I’m no fan of aniseed at the best of times, never mind in beer!

Different for a Heller Bock, that’s the dutch interpretation i guess. Amber, small head. Smells like spices and blossoms. Taste carries lots of aniseed and a bit of coriander. More malt in the midpalate, somewhat sweet and some bitterness. Is this my strange beer tasting session?

Bottle at home. Wow. This is surprisingly good for a Bavaria product. Very light, hoppy, citrusy. With coriander flavor. Nice bock with strong and smooth texture. Bitter at the end. Quite impressed.

comes in 30 cl bottles, strong accent of spice (anis?) in scent and taste. Lightly bitter after with malt on the side. Drinkable

Bottled. A golden beer with a huge light orange head. The aroma is sweet spicy with notes of berries, hops, and citrus. The flavor is malty with artificial notes of berries, leading to a dry and lightly bitter end. Boring.

(Bottle 30 cl) Clear, deep golden with a dense, white head. Odd, spicy aroma. Medium body with some sweet malt and then again these odd, spicy accents - sort of like Bassets Licorice Allsorts. Not entirely pleasant. Courtesy of jbrus. 040307

Small white head, pale orange, clear beer. Orange, kumquat, Mandarine Napoléon, sherry - very nice nose, actually, and a bit cheesy (guess oxydation). Very sweet, taste, some citrus, but more amandine/roasewater or frangipane. A bit too sweet, still liqueurish, enhanced by the heavy spicing. Finish is rather empty. Very slick MF, slightly oily and bit watery. Great nose, but the rest is not really following.
Tasted a bit after the BBd. As this beer is meant to be drunk very fresh, it will be shortly retasted in a young version.
New version ’07, fresh: Much less (!) pleasing aroma, overwhelmed by coriander and another spice - aniseed, no doubt. Taste is sweet, but the perfumey franchipane-like flavours are held in check better. Some caramel(malts) are obvious. The spices are better blended in the taste, but only when the beer is drunk cold. Warming up, it becomes a shambles of spices. Moral: I prefer the aged one...