Schell Caramel Bock

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Dunkler Bock
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

12 oz bottle. Deep copper, clear, almost no head. Sweet caramel and a bit of raisin in the nose; on the tongue, very sweet, a bit vinous, rather one-dimensional and flat...dry but exceedingly boring finish. Easy to drink, easy to forget.

Another piece of the Schell sampler pack. Dark copper colored ale. Thin head. Coppery flavor to this beer. Very malty and a little hoppy. A little sweet as well. Its as solid beer and is great around this time of year when its hot and we needs a good thrist quencher.

Pours a deep reddish brown with a small but lasting head. Aroma is of roasted malts and nuts. Taste is of malts and soft oak. Caramel apparent only slightly. Good mouthfeel, great legs.

Clear bown copper color, small frothy bubbled dusty brown head, minimal lacing sticks. Aroma is mild and calm of toasty malts and breads with slight nuts, anise, and caramel notes. Taste is mild, mild, mild. Some OK notions of toasty caramel and bread with some very slight spice midway, notes of nuts inbetween the bready sweetness but finishes weak and subdued beyond any lingering quailities, just a bunch of tame sweetness fading quickly. Feel is quick and smooth, a bit on the weak ended side as far as body, watery in some regards. Nudge over average for a bock. Could be better.
Earlier Rating: 9/20/2003 Total Score: 3.2
Color is a dark clear amber with a tannish creamy half inch head that fades and left minimal lace. Smell has a soft sweet malt of light caramel and not much else. Taste has a small amount of sweet, lightly fruitish malts, a bit roasty, not much caramel, whats there is quite faint, not withstanding a short bite and lighter then medium body feel thats lightly creamy smooth and all over pretty quick.

Dark Amber Coloring. No real caramel taste. Kind of thin. Not the best Schell’s beer.

this tasty brew is lovely in appearance and smells like my great grandfathers german hops farm in august or september and just after a heavy rain. tastewise it s fruity in all the right ways and not in the wrong ones. i will serve this beer at my second wedding, assuming that this beer is still around.

clear amber color, head is beige and lasting. aroma is obviously caramel malts, with a hair of breadiness. flavor is sweet caramel malts...hops are next to impossible to detect in this one.

Appearance: clear, bright, garnet hue, with a solid, creamy tan head. Aroma: soft and malty. slowly emited a caramelly feel, with hints of fruit Tasty, though light in body, well light-to-medium, being generous. Finish is blunt and brief, and texture is timid. This caramel noted in the name comes from the name of the malts used, not from any overriding character in the flavor. Unfortunate, that. Could have used something extra. Body feels far too thin, and flavor wanes. Not bad, but not much more. Schell wants to do this year-round, but I can't imagine it catching on.
Earlier Rating: 4/23/2004 Total Score: 3.5
Color is a clear, dark amber, and the head is sturdy and bubbly, an off-white hue. Aroma is clean, with small hints of caramel and nuts. Sweet and silky smooth on the palate, with some fruitiness coming in on the flavor, through the malt. The caramel/toffee/nuttiness also reappears and contributes to a very delicious taste. Nice, sweet finish. Overall, a very good bock. This my first time tasting this one in 3 years, and the last experience was not good. Maybe I had a bad batch before, or if the beer didn't change, maybe I did!