Holsten Festbock

Brewed by Holsten-Brauerei (Carlsberg)
Style: Dunkler Bock
Hamburg, Germany

The color is like rubies, with sparkles brown color, has a head bronze and smooth. The aroma is slightly roasty with a bitter finish. The flavor of sweet caramel Malty with some hint of hop. The end is quite good. It is a beer that had seen before and it had not tried it. That good that now I did it. nice.

dark amber with little head, this brew has caramel aroma with hint of prune. medium bodied, it has relatively fruity flavor and is pretty clean tasting.

This pours a deep mahogany body with a lofty, sustained tan head. Very sweet, malty aroma - caramel with a splash of milk chocolate. It tastes of lightly roasted malts, a sweetness tempered by the arrival of a mild herbal bitterness near to the finish. At 7% ABV, a dangerously sessionable beer.

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500 ml can. pours dark brown with almost no head. white bubbles lace the glass as you drink. aromas of dark fruit and sweet malts. flavours are similar but lack any kind of finish. very watery finish for a 7% beer. the holsten maibok is better then this one.

Best by: 02/2008

Pours a dark mahogany/brown body under a large but quick fading tan head. Dry, malty aroma exudes the dark sweetness of chocolate-caramel. Mid-bodied with a lively mouth. Well-crafted, with a roasty yet sweet malted flavor leading to a coffee bitterness... then finishing as a bittersweet union of the twain. Very good, especially from a canned product which usually gets a bum rap.

<font size=-4>Single 500ml can from a random LCBO, London, ON, CAN</font>

500mL can: Dark, carbonated body with tan head of one finger. aroma is very malty with strong alcohol. Flavor is straightforward: sweet malt bordering on molasses with faint hops presence. tangy and smooth on the palate. nice, but won’t buy again.

Can, 500 ml, best before 11.2007, savoured on June 28 2007; eye: ruby, clear, light effervescence, beige head that turns into a tiny ring around the glass, no lacing; nose: caramelized malt, hops, yeast, bread; mouth: in that order, carbonation, caramelized malt, light hops, finale in caramelized malt which is gradually replaced by an enjoyable hops, lightly sweet and bitter, medium body, a bit thin, quite carbonated; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Canette, 500 ml, meilleure avant 11.2007, savourée le 28 juin 2007; œil : rubis, claire, légère effervescence, petite mousse beige qui se transforme en un petit anneau autour du verre, pas de dentelle; nez : malt caramélisé, houblon, levure, pain; bouche : dans cet ordre, carbonatation, malt caramélisé, léger houblon, finale en malt caramélisé qui est graduellement remplacé par un houblon plaisant, légèrement sucrée et amère, corps moyen, un peu mince, assez carbonatée; en résumé : bien

Not bad by any means...it’s a nice dark strong beer, though i could get no head on this one...a bit of roast in the back of the mouth, some nice burnt flavour. Not as flavourful as Faxe Festbock (which is no huge prize in itself), but a nice enough alternative when you’re faced with a shelf full of bland Euro pale lagers. Exactly why I picked it up today.