Saint Arnold Spring Bock

Brewed by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Houston, Texas USA

Bottle that kaggie97 sent this one to me. Thanks Kevin. Amber color with smallish head and low, low carbonation. Nose has a little nutmeg in it along with some other spiciness. Taste is a little better than aroma with nice malty bock flavor. I liked it.

Thanks to Walt for this beer.

Poured a cloudy effervescent amber with a fizzy off-white head. Sweet fruity aroma, touch of caramel and sourness. Taste is sweet and slightly vinous with a touch of lemon tartness and smoky dryness. Biting carbonation and alcohol add a burn to the flavor. Not sure if I’d call it smooth, but it’s decent and flavorful enough.

Pours with a frothy amber colored head that sits atop a orange-amber colored beer. The aroma has notes of caramel and a sweet concentrated, fruity maltiness that I associate with strong Lagers and notes of toasted malt. The taste is sweet up front with a rich malty finish that almost has a meatiness to it. I get notes of bergamot in this beer, though it seems to be a mix of the maltiness and perhaps the subtle hopping. This beer has a medium full body to it that coats the mouth with sweet malt notes. The finish has a bit of bitterness as well as an astringency that is a mix of toasted malts and a tannic like drying. Definitely interesting and tasty, though it could use a bit more oomph.

The body is a light ruby with almost no head. The aroam is sweet caramel with a little bit of burnt oak. The taste is sweet and smooth caramel with some brown sugar. The finish makes me think of slightly burnt apples. Overall a nice spring beer. Recieved in a trade, thanks Kevin.

Thanks to Kevin for the bottle. Gold orange color, small fizzy off white head. Grain and grass aromas with a DMS tinge. Woody nose, somewhat sweet malt flavors to follow. Husky astringency joins a muted hop bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel is slick but not smooth, with a chemical roughness from DMS.

Nice caramel amber hue with a initial good fixxy off-white head but little lace and fades to almost nothing. The aroma has notes of biscuity and carmelized malts, vegetables and grainy, a bit of fresh wood as well and hints of phenolic tones. The taste starts with a straight forward sweet malt overtone and finishes with a okay hint of bitters and that woodiness detected on the nose. The feel is just average but the finish has a touch of snap which helps. In the end, this is a forgettable beer, but all things considered, not too shabby for Texas. Thanks Kevin for the bottle.

Bottle. Amber with no head. Nose is sweet and caramel like. Taste, in one word, is "husky". Reminds me of the way barn floors smell. Not always a bad thing. Other flavors are roasted malts, smoke, caramel, lots of crystal. Not too shabby, but I wouldn’t drink it everyday.

pours a dark light brown. minimal head that doesn’t stay around. doughy caramel malt aroma that is a bit woody, like mesquite chips but more mellow.light brown sugar and sherry in the first taste. smooth at first, but with some bite at the end, i guess thats the alcohol coming through. something that reminds me of biting into a popsicle stick after the popsicle was good, the sweetness is still there, but there is a woody bitterness. not a bad beer, i will not have a problem finishing the six pack.