Einbecker Mai-Ur-Bock

Brewed by Einbecker Brauhaus
Style: Heller Bock
Einbeck, Niedersachsen, Germany

Taster from a green bottle at Binny’s, Orland Park. There are great doppelbocks, and there are the plain old workaday bocks. This one works very well. Light color for its style, with an uncomplicated "beer" smell. Grainy and slightly roasty taste, with slight spiciness. Claims to have been one of the first Bocks, and that’s likely. Good basic spring-time beer.

Bottle. tested 15/5-06. Dark yellow colour, with a creamy, foam.Lots of grain, and sweet maltynes in the aroma, and also a bit of hops in the end. Long a malty sweetnes, with a alomst milk creamy moluth feeling.aNice bitternes in the finish. Full body! Good and well dan.

05.11.06 .33l bottle. Dark and rusty blond color with lasting and lacing pale beige head. Aroma is sweet and malty with caramel and candy apples, fresh grains, mild tropical notes, and the beginnings of some oxidation (cardboard, sulfur hints). Body is full and lively with plenty of cleansing eff. Sweet up front, across the middle, and in the finish. I detect a juicy apple flavor throughout this beer with a light acidic tartness towards the end and spicy finishing bitterness. Some touches of mineral add an earthy quality that works with emerging (with temp) tropical touches.

Copper color with a thick longlasting head. Malty aroma, some caramel in the aroma as well. A little sweet malty flavor and caramel. Some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Amber-gold color, with a frothy beige head, bready, grainy nose, with a sweet caramelized malt and a toffeeish note in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet caramelized malt character, a malty syrupy note, toasted malt, grainy, leading towards a malty and lingering faint sweet dryness finish.

bottle-thanks to vyvvy for the sample. carmel mahogony with a tea-like appearance. skunked nose of wet cardboard and light spicy hops. lots of grain husk quality. flavors are gainy, skunky with a tea-like quality. finish is fairly bitter with quite a bit of spicy german hops here. probably the only redeming quality in this beer (the hops). finish is dry with lingering spicy qualities.

Malty aroma. Golden colored with a white head. Very carbonated palate, malt and a little alcohol in the palate along with a noticeable sweetness and a sweet yet watery finish. Not overly impressed.

Tap at Gingerman NYC. Pours a medium to deep gold almost a medium copper with a nice lasting thin white head. Aroma ia sharp sweet sticky light munich and pils malt, bready and a tough of fruity esters. Sweet and light caramel flavors, bready, light nuttiness, and a characteristic sharp malty finish in the end like many good mai-bocks. I thought this was well made and pretty easy to drink.