Schell Maifest

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

Reddish orange body. Thin, soapy white head. Light perfumey malt aroma. Sweet fruit and perfumey hop taste, a bit of grass... a bit thin and too fizzy. Seemingly forced flavor reminscent of Capital Maibock, but not. Could be better, but isn’t too bad.

Pour is a golden with a fluffly white head. Aroma is slight malts and hops. Flavor is citrus with a touch of hops. Nothing really special as the flavor is pretty weak.

Pours a medium yellow color. Aromas of malts, something fruity, and some grass. Flavor malty and crisp with some nice hop finish.

From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with a blurb about the beer on the back label and a coded lot/package number on the shoulder of bottle. Made a good appearance, poured a clear golden amber with a large foamy golden white head that reduced to thin lacing and a small amount of ringed sticking. Had a fruity toffee aroma with traces of lemon and banana. Decent carbonation and a slick light bodied mouth feel, easy drinkability. Taste had a sweet and sour effect, at first sweet malty and banana followed by a sour lemon and orange zest with a very mellow bitterness, not exactly balanced, with a semi-dry sweet finish. An o.k. Maibock/Helles Bock, a little too light bodied with a mixed up taste, not smooth tasting.

got this in a trade and I can not find my paper on who sent it to me. but thanks who ever you are. from the bottle, poured a copper with a small white head that didn’t last very long. aroma there sure is some malts in there and hops, lemon. flavor a a like on the weak side malts and hops with a tanging lemon and a touch of molasses as it warmed. not to bad. session beer if I could get more.

Neutral fruit sweetness. Some apple and pear, light apricots. Good sweet malt character, caramel and wort esters. Light fruity hops, but mostly sweet and mellow with a hint of spice. Medium caramel-butterscotch amber, hazy, with thin dissipating off-white head. Medium watery body with heavy carbonation - almost fizzy. Gives a light carbonic burn. Starts with a good dose of malty sweetness. Caramel and burnt toffee, neutral fruits and wort, light lemon zest. Finish has a good dose of medium dryness, yeasty and with a little citrus-carbonic tang on top of some bitterness. Decent bock, though ends a bit watery. Aftertaste is pleasant though not entirely clean.

Poured from a bottle, this beer is a glowing copper color with tons of visible carbonation and a thin fizzy white head. The aroma is caramel apples and cinnamon sticks. The flavor has some sweet yellow apples, caramel, light honey and cinnamon sticks. The palate is over-carbonated. Way too lively to go with the flavors.

This particular style I’m not too familier with, but this beer seems to me to almost taste like a bad batch. I guess the its the specialty malts that I’m tasting, but personally I’m not a huge fan. It’s an okay beer and I’d take it over a fizzy yellow anyday.