Black Forest Maibock

Brewed by Black Forest Brew Haus
Style: Heller Bock
Farmingdale, New York USA

Freshly-grown peppery hops spicing up the haystack malt...Malt sweetness is loving the languorous citrusy film which is embracing it...Great lacing and lasting bitterness in a fuller body than Ramstein’s...This is a spring harvest which is certainly cultivating my curiosity about this brewery...

Tap at the brewpub. Hazy golden amber, creamy white head. Aroma is lightly peppery and malty. Light crackery malts with a touch of pale maltiness. Warming feeling, lightly boozy but fairly clean. As it warms, I get more booziness, but some light breadiness as well. It’s authentic, but still only average.

April, 2004. Hazy golden beer with a light banana aroma with nice wheat and cloves and bananas in tatse with a pleasant rich body.

TAP NY sample. Cloudy golden, nice lacing. Delicate, light floral nose with hints of honey and vanilla. Rich body, very malty and caramel-filled, just the right level of finishing bitterness to keep it from cloying. Very good, perhaps the best of the many Maibocks at the fest.

Sweet, orange, citrus, hoesey aroma. Hazy straw orange colour. Orange-tan head with some lacing. Nice malty flavour and good bitterness. Very well balanced. Excellent carbonation - slightly prickly but right at the threshold. Medium body and refreshing mouthfeel. Very enjoyable. On tap at TapNY festival.

Tap at the brewpub. THis is a pretty solid clean well made maibock. Pours vlear deep gold-light amber with a nice fluffy white head and nice lace. Aroma is sharp bready pils malt, light munich, and a touch of herbal hops. Lighter than expected body for the abv, and very clean. Malty sweet with a crisp clean bitter finish. A tough lighter in body than some others I have had, but still a great example of the style. Update- went back and had on tap later that night afterLi beerfest, and had from a different part of the bar- and a different line, but this sample tasted like bandaid so there must have been some dirty lines or an infected keg somewhere.

(Draught) Pours a cloudy, thin, white and quick dissipating head with an orange amber body. Nose of sweet malt and hops, somewhat orangy. Slightly fizzy, orange and creamy. Good.

Tap at the brewpub - comes out of the tap a clear golden with a slight orange tint to it - very full aroma of bright fruity qualities, some grassy hops and herbal notes, all underpinned with a honey sweetness - initial flavors are of butterscotch and slight diacytil (a little off-putting) - smooth, almost creamy mouthfeel - spicy hops, wildfower honey, and berry-like fruity esters come into play, making the beer interesting, almost making up for the unwelcome butterscotch flavors - still quite good, but a little too heavy, and not as clean as I like my maibocks to be.