Michigan Brewing Celis Pale Bock

Brewed by Michigan Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Webberville, Michigan USA

Appearance: Dark, redish brown. Not much head. Aroma: Fruity and malty. Taste: Fruity and fresh, some hops and malt. Some aftertaste. Flowers, pollen, honey. Info: 250ml bottle, 22/11-2006, 114/500

Pour is a cloudy/murky brown with a small white head. Aroma is where this one get the bad marks. Almost nothing with just a small whiff of sweet malts. Flavor is much better with coriander and spice with a molasses after taste. Very thick swallow and it gets better in all categories as it warms. An ok beer with its average qualities.

Pours orangish with a mostly receding wispy off-white head. Aroma of pale malt, peppery phenolics, pear, and some spice. Taste is pale malt, yeasty pear, toffee. Medium to full bodied, lightly sticky. Not very impressive.

Pours a light coppery orange (standard bock sort of color I guess) with a healthy creamy white head. The nose is lightly sweet with strong toast, some fruit, and a hint of that coriander. Not a huge fan. The mouthfeel is slightly slipperier and more viscous than average, but not much. The flavor is kind of crappy actually. Toasted lightly acidic mess. Very dry finish. It tastes like some other beer I don’t like... but I cannot put my fingers on it. Overwhelming yeast in the finish.

Bottle. Apple and pale, grassy malt aroma with the hops bringing some unexpected and nice Am Pale Ale notes. Copper-orange body seems a little off, light carb and a scant off-white head. Sticky, slightly acidic body, lightly carbonated. Taste is malt and hay, sweetish but drying out slightly, to a bit of a spicy biscuit, but seemingly without a very good yeast strain - even some of the worse German Helle would put this to shame. Caramel and a medium body, a touch harsher than necessary. Touch of wit (orange peel and coriander), but these notes don’t match with the (surprisingly up-front) alcohol, yeast/spice, or hop notes. A mess.

looks like tea. aroma of mostly air with some apple(?). woody, slightly sour flavor. watery mouth feel. weak effort, as far as i can see.

12oz bottle. Poured a deeper and cloudy amberish color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of grains, toasted caramel, light yeast, and a little nutty. Tastes of caramel, grains, and a trace of spices.

Thanks to Jk, though I share his sentiments. Smelled like maranar (orageno and tomato among other flavors) with a sourness that just shouldn’t have been there. Similar taste.