Dundee Pale Bock Lager

Brewed by High Falls Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Rochester, New York USA

Bottle: Sampler Pack 2008. I’m not familiar with good Bocks - so can’t fairly rate it other than as a "beer" - and I’m ambivalent about it. Even more so than the other styles in this sampler I find it less than great, but obviosly made with a t least some real beer ingredients. Cleaner tasting than a lager and not overly watery. Malty esp. on the finish Wouldn’t seek it out - but would easily prefer it to a mass market macro brew.

Sample box split with BMan1113VR. As far as a heller bock goes, this beer is terrible. Weak aroma almost none, I can only get a little bit of corn and sugar. Terrible light orange appearance. Tate is weak and watery, dry, with some sort of strange akward bitterness. Terrible bock.

Tasted with ilovedarkbeer. Aroma is malty and grassy. White, small, head that goes quicky;. Taste is salty water with fruit about half way through. Mouthfeel is fizzty. Tastes like a common macro, but extra clean.

This beer is dark orange, but very clear and filtered. The aroma is mostly malty with a hint of lemon on the end. The flavor has quite a bit of malt and a bit of a bite. There is a bit of an aftertaste of burnt malt.

12oz bottle-pours a foamy off white head and gold color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel/grain. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel/grain, secondary metallic hops, pepper, alcohol. OK/mild carbonation.

33 cl bottle, Fargo. Golden colour, sweet corny smell. Alcoholic taste, burns as it goes down with a slightly sour aftertaste.

They might as well call this malt liquor. Poured a white head that was very foamy, and has a slightly darker than light beer amber color to it. It has much of the same flavor that you’d get from a cheap 40oz of malt liquor, with a slightly sweeter finish. I got this in a "craft beer sampler" from JW Dundees, and I wish they’d replace this one with something else. Not bad at all if you enjoy malt liquor, but this wouldn’t be my first (or second or third) choice of beer.

Aug. 2006 - Not a bad beer for the buck. Poured pale color with smallish head and lacing. The aroma was bready and sweet. The flavor was more plain lager than bock with some malty honey sweetness thrown in. Crisp and refreshing at the get-go, but as it warmed it became more syrupy, and not in a good way. Drink it quick, drink it cold would be my motto...and that never speaks well of the beer, now, does it?