Kaufbeuren Belli Bock Helles Starkbier

Brewed by Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren
Style: Heller Bock
Kaufbeuren, Schwaben/Bayern, Germany

Labelled as Aktien Maibock. Slightly hazy golden body with a small frothy white head. Sweet malty molassas aroma. Sweet molassas and caramel flavor.

(50cl bottle) Large white head atop crystal clear apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, dough/bread, some caramel, light peach. Taste is moderately sweet, bread/caramel, honey, peach/honeydew, light alcohol, grassy. Medium body, some stickiness, easy drinking for the ABV.

Bright gold appearance with an average size white head and spotty lacing. An organic, herbal aroma was there at first, but it faded and left a less inspired sweetness. Taste was primarily sweet malts, including caramel and soft fruit; hoppiness was low keyed. Medium bodied, moderately carbonated mouthfeel leading to a lingering, but gummy, finish.

Pours a pale gold with minimal white head. Mild aroma of hop flowers and pale malt. Sweet malt flavor, almost like rock candy, along with some mild hoppiness. Malt liquor characteristics noted as well. Not bad, but wouldn’t go out of my way to purchase again.

Bottle from Stateline. Sweet yeasty aroma with fruit (some green apple, too) and pale malt, honey and oat bran cereal. Sickly pale yellow-golden pour with a soapy, creamy white head. Body slightly oily, thin aspiring to be medium, dry and lightly malty. Touch of sweetness, almost lactic in character, slightly herbal. Honey and perhaps muscat, both linger in the long dry aftertaste. Below avg for style.

(500 ml bottle (simply called "Aktien Maibock", stamped "02.06") from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maryland/baltim target=blank>Wells Discount Liquors) Mostly smooth rich malt with a tiny bitter bite...Pours hazy pale yellow with a marshmallow fluff white head. Aroma of honey, bread, hay and something a bit sourish like wet blanket. Mouthfeel quite full, fairly smooth. Taste is kind of a sweet and sour honey/bread/hay with a bit of bitterness. Hint of smoke. Bit of licorice in finish. Liked it but not sure about the light sour/wet blanket aspect.

Bottle from State Line. Medium gold pour with 1-finger off-white head. Aroma of apricot, honey, pale malt, hopcitrus, slight white peppercorns. Tastes fruity at first, matched by a solid hopcitrus and a firm amount of malty sweetness, but not too sweet.

500ml bottle -- poured virtually clear, only lightly carbonated, with a thin head. The aroma was shockingly malty and mashy, like an operating brewery smells. The flavor is excessively musty, biscuity and flat. There’s a bit of a lemon cookie swirl to it, but otherwise this is a disappointingly flat, lifeless mellowly yellow brew. (#2984, 6/19/2007)
Earlier Rating: 6/6/2007 Total Score: 2.8
500ml bottle; Poured with a nice sunshiney reflective golden hue and a bombastic, fizzy head that quickly laid down into a small white foam head. The aroma is ein bischen syrupy, but mostly a light malt. This drinks easily, slightly viscuous, but not overly so. Except for a tad bit of an alcoholy bite, this drinks not much different than an everyday helles, without much of a stand-out character either way. (#2961, 6/6/2007)