Holsten Maibock

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

Poured clear straw gold with a slight tan head. Smells of cider, honey, and a floral/strawberry licorice. Mouthfeel is watery and under-carbonated. Taste? Well, aspirin. This beer was so astringent that I could barely make out anything else for around 10 minutes. Then I noticed some honey sweetness. Obviously, it’s hoppy, but it’s far too astringent to be enjoyable. However, you couldn’t detect the higher alcohol content. I’m not sure if that’s a plus or not.

mild sweet aroma; sweet flavor as well. for a strong beer, alcohol is faiulry well hidden by the flavour. lightly carbonated; slightly sweet mild finish

Gold and foamy, sweet and a bit too fruity. But hides the heaviness of the alcohol content pretty well. Not too heavily carbonated Nothing special, but decent enough.

0.5L can. Pours an amber colour with no head. Complex aroma smells very fruity. Palate is smooth but thick, and it leaves a light film in the mouth - not unpleasant though. Very strong sweet malt flavour. Quite overwhelming at first, but it eases up a bit. I find the malt flavour hides any other flavours that may be present. I definitely prefer the festbock.

Appearance: amber orange color. Little head, without persistency, white color. Aroma: pale malty, candy, honey and fruity. Sweet-fruitiness of red apples, peaches and papayas. Floral-hoppy, metallic and camomile end. Flavor: sweet pale malty, candy, vanilla; fruitiness of apples, peaches and grapefruits peel orange; bitter-fruity of peel orange. Sweet malty start, finish with fruity and hoppy-herbal touches, the hops insensitive is medium and persistent, the aftertaste have similarity to peel citric-fruits and medicinal herbs like camomile. Slight warming like camomile’s liquor. Metallic finish, not from can. Palate: light body, semi-oily texture. Medium carbonation. Nice persistent herbal-hoppy, soft but multiplicity fruitiness. Good surprise from a international commercial brewer.

Pours a deep golden to amber sort of color with fairly little head. Aroma is lightly malty, with a hint of alcohol and a tiny bit of grassy hops. Pretty thick for a light beer, but little carbonation. Pretty dry, and a bit of a raisin-like taste. Almost powdery sort of taste. A little bit of caramel maybe with some nice bitterness in the finish.

Has a cloudy golden color, with orange shades. The head is very abundant, but so fast that it disappears immediately. Has floral and sweet notes. The flavor in principle is sweet, to finish in a bitter one, that is not so bad. Something of malty in the final. I did not wait much for this beer, but it is quite good.

Pours golden with a white foaomy head. Light malty aroma. Mostly light malty flavour, with some rubbery like notes. Slightly sour and alcohol finish.