Mahrs Bräu Der Weisse Bock

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

Ripe banana, clove, slight sour note, firm off-white head. taste: sweet/sour with wheaty/honey/spicy finish. Banana aftertaste a bit too sweet. Not bad.

Cloudy brown coloured, medium head. As caesar mentioned, this beer is a nice combination of a malty bock and a wheaty weizen. Full flavoured and refreshing nevertheless. Good brew.

Cloudy brown color, medium off-white head. Aroma is malty like a bock, and grainy and banana like a weizen, with a little lactic hint and some smoked notes. Full taste, quite sweet but refreshing. Not a sticky palate, but a full spicy palate.

Pours a deep brown with nice reddish tones blended into it. Very foamy tall tanned head. Malty, grainy, and sweet aroma mixed with some caramel and yeast notes. Fruit in there as well. It’s very reminescent to a sweeter Aventinus and that I like. Malted and sweet with more of the fruit coming forth. Lighter wheat notes toward the finish. There’s some definite spice coming through in the taste and becomes more noticeable during the finish. Carbonated mouthfeel seems a bit overdone, bu this is a well rounded beer otherwise, and a damn good one at that. My only wish is for a distributor in southern VA to pick up Shelton Brothers line so I don’t have to go to DC to buy this.

The beer came in a brown 0.5 liter bottle of typical German design. Nice traditional looking label showing a goat licking the head off of this weizenbock. The back of the label has a born on date, which is a welcome departure from German traditional labeling practices. As the label indicated this was born just a couple of moths ago (2 April 04), I am getting a reasonably fresh sample. When poured into a Pilsner glass, the beer developed an enormous head that was extremely durable. The head was off while is color and nearly 3 inches in height. The underlying body was hazy reddish amber in color. The aroma was clearly from the weizen family with bananas, bubblegum, and cloves on the nose. The taste was also relatively simple at first glance with a spicy clove presence up front, followed by a quick snap of hops, and a long lemon-banana finish. As the beer warmed up, the alcohol becomes more pronounced and made the beer feel drier. The beer lacks the creamy smoothness of Aventinus, and feels a bit coarser on the palette. But what it lacks in sophistication, it makes up somewhat with a more potent raw energy.

Bottle. Found this in a supermarket in a small town in far North California. Full on banana esters, heavy yeast and clove. Spciy, with some lemon tang. Great relief to have a good whaet beer after the run of ban wheats i’ve had. Tasted more like a dunkle weisse, than a weizen bock to me. Still really elegant stuff.

Dark - very dark - brown, nice tan head. Toasty, malty aroma, with a bready, slightly hoppy flavor. Palate is kind of watery. Actually, the beer just wasn’t as assertive as I expected.

From a clear fruity bubblegum perspective, introspective bready yeast appears...Floating grapes and prunes encounter gloating cloves...Lighter spiciness than Aventinus but as pleasantly fruity, without reaching the master’s level...