Einbecker Ur-Bock Dunkel

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

The aroma is very sweet malty with strong caramel notes and some yeast and brewmash. The color is a hazy red and it has a very beutiful dense off-white head. The flavor is dominated by caramel malt, making it rather sweet in the beginning, before the alcohol, yeast, and wood kicks in. In the end it turns rather bitter - primarily from hops, so much, that it tingles the palate. The palate is really good - especially considering it only being 6.5% ABV.

Clear in body, color is a light amber with a slight copperish tone, a quick puffy off-white head appears swiftly and crumbles away nearly just as fast leaving a thin collar always present and very minimal spots of lace. Aroma is slightly sweet of malts with a burnt-like toffee, notes of wet old grass; crisp and light on the nose overall. Taste is has a quick little start thats thinnishly silky where then, just past midway some slightly twinged grassy and earth toned hops and burntish malts begin to mingle for a bit then the hops fade off leaving some burntish toffee across the palate as it finishes with a soft dryness and subdued crispness. Feel has a bit of texture in the carbonation leaving behind some twingy burnt malt burps with a passable medium fullness throughout. Its a bit slow moving at first but kinda grows on ya as you go. This seems to be something that would go well around a bonfire to me, why, I couldn't say, it just does. Something simple, yet with a bit of interest and a nice warming of 6.5% would make it a good fire side drink.

Dark amber colour. Hoppy, skunky aroma. Flavour turns out to be very Pilsner-like. Hopbitter, slightly skunky taste, with some maltiness. Bitter finish. Not that great.

amber color with tiny head. crisp "lagery" aroma, mostly of malt, with some floral hops. in the body, it's very malty, and then it turns slightly bitter, and finishes sweet. overall not bad, but not great.

darkish amber, dirty copper color with a large eggshell colored head. Has a bitter musty basement aroma. Has a musty body with a weird watery amost skunky and barely bitter feel. most odd,

Big off white head with huge bubbles. Clear amber. More yeast on the nose than malt, with some dank smells. Very effervescent on the tongue, and quite bitter for the style. Very Belgian in its mustiness. Strange for a German beer.

Poured a medium amber color, off white head. Skunked aroma, damn green bottle! Past the skunk was a bit of malt. Flavor was suprisingly non-skunky. Malty and sweet, some bitter hops, touch of alcohol. Medium body, although you could kind of taste the alcohol, there was no warming. Would probably be ok if not for the skunkiness. I hate you green bottle.

Keg, Amsterdam BBF2003. Deep amber, off white head and moderate condition. Musty malt aromas, more malt in the mouth with some hoppiness and a suggestion of mushrooms that lingers long into the aftertaste.