Mahrs Bräu Bock-Bier

Brewed by Mahrs Bräu
Style: Heller Bock
Bamberg, Oberfranken/Bayern, Germany

Bottle ugly hazey yellow (like a tea bag being used for the 4th cup). The black sediment contrast on the beer made it look dirty. No head just a bit of lacing. Aroma is present - yeast, earthy, toasty, just a bit of sweetness. Taste is like bitter grass, not bitter in terms of hop bitterness but kind of like just bitter grass. Watery, weak and thin.

Probably my best Mahrs experience, and also one of my more liked helles/golden bocks. Poured a rich golden color, some straw haze to it, and some chunks came flying out of the bottle before the bottom (no problem there, though, I like that stuff). The head was very modest, nothing impressive, and I rolled my eyes and wondered why I bothered running Mahrs. Aroma wasn’t bad, though, bready, light grass, a touch of honey. The flavor followed the aroma, very nice rich malt base, pils malts apparent, nice honey sweet finish, but not too sweet, far from cloying, a touch of almost a yeast type bitterness, although possibly from the hops. A toasted factor came on mid-bottle with warming temperature. Mouthfeel was dead on, full, but not syrupy thick. A decent showing for a take on the style that I’m not normally a lover.

nice bitterness, easy drinking. Drying and bit sour aftertaste. Clove spice detracted. Complex malting and malty and bit of toast and nuts aroma. A rare one picked up at Cloverleaf. resnt carbonation. Best accompanied by food.Six months’ old.

Other than the aroma, (which I originally gave a 3), I thought this beer was excellent. Smells a little wheaty and yeasty. Only my second pale bock but much better than the first. I really like it, and recommend it!

0.5 L bottle. Hazy pale golden beer, slightly cloudy. Thin white head. Fresh malty aroma, bread, toast, sweet and fairly worty, but still approaching balance. Very fresh aroma. Some honey and some toast. Flavour is also sweet pale malt, light toast, and some bready yeastiness. Fairly soft bitterness that just barely balances the malty sweetness.

Bottle: Think I got me a bottle that’s about 6 months old ... and this poured with high level of chunky sediment that hung around in the opaque dark golden beer with the 1/4 inch head. It had a grassy aroma. The flavor I’d cross between a sour orange and grain alcohol ... strong but not overpowering.

Sweet malts, grainey, biscuity and just a hint of grassy hops. Sweet but not overly, and very well balanced on all other accounts.

NINce bock, a little tiring and extreemely alcoholic, nice colour but a little pale and dissapointing for the taste.