Gordon Biersch Winter Bock

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Dunkler Bock
Palo Alto, California USA

Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel. While the flavor is sweet malty with dominating notes of caramel, but also lighter notes of metal and prunes.

Draught at Gordon Biersch, Burbank, California. Ruby/brown, small head. Full caramelly, fudgey malt flavour topped by light grassy hops. Medium-full bodied with medium bitterness.
This beer would’ve been even more enjoyable if it wasn’t for the fact the my 32-year old colleague were refused being served, despite showing a valid international drivers license. Apparently looking 30+ years old and being in posession of an ID that is proving it was not enough to convince the manager that he was not underage. Needless to say we all left our beers on the counter and turned our back at this place without ever returning.

Date: 01/09/1999
Mode: Draft
Source: Las Vegas

Dark brown, frothy tan head, sweet malt aroma, lots of rich malt flavor, slight sweetness, well balanced, no bitterness

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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Tasted at Oakville, but it was brewed at Whitby
Medium brown; too much fusel alcohol - gak! Lightly chewy, toffee malts, hint of woody, almond skins. At 6.5% they would have had to work hard to get all those higher alcohols in there, and that is definitely not worth the effort.

(2004) Cola body, beige head. Aroma is very sweet, candi sugar, raisin, caramel. Taste is very sweet, raisin, caramel, lightly astringent. Watery medium body. Brewer indicates that his version of this beer was 7.6% ABV. (7/3/4/2/9) ... (2003) Cola body with medium beige head. Aroma is sweet caramel and raisin. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, some raisin. Slightly astringent herbal/earthy finish. Watery medium-full body. As a trivial sidenote, this beer was my beer calendar’s "beer of the day" yesterday when I drank it at the Brickskeller Holiday Beer Tasting. (7/3/5/3/11)

Bottle. Dark amber colour with a beige head. Rye bread, dark fruits and soya aroma and a sweet malty, rye bread, dark fruits and soya taste. Medium to full body with a sweet light alcoholic finish.

12oz bottle thrown in as an extra (that I found in the box a few months after the fact) from DarkElf (thanks!). Poured a medium and clear mahogany color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of stronger wood, smoke, caramel, and toasted malts. Almost smelled barrel aged with all that wood and I swear I got some vanilla in there too. Tastes of lighter wood, caramel, and a little nutty.

12oz bottle-pours a tan head with mahogany color. Aroma is medium/dark fruit-cherry/plum, medium/dark malt-toffee, secondary earthy/spice hops. Taste is medium/dark fruit-cherry/plum/raisin, medium/dark malt-molasses/toffee, secondary earthy/spice hops. OK carbonation.