Schmucker Rosébock

Brewed by Privat-Brauerei Schmucker
Style: Heller Bock
Mossautal, Hessen, Germany

Bottled. Amber coloured with a huge off white head. Acidic aroma of wine and fruits with notes of bread. Nice sweet flavour of malts and bread with acidic notes of wine. Warming alcoholic finish.

Don’t expect to be drinking a bock because you’ll be disappointed. If you judge it on it’s own and not to its style it’s quite a nice beer. Port and prune aroma. Amber/orange color, off-white head, good lace. Full, hoppy, orange flavor, bitter, alcohol, sweet. Long lasting little burning finish.

Bottled 50cl. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma of hay, papaya, biscuit, grapes, candy, dried apricot, wood and gooseberry. Surprisingly fruity. Lovely notes of rose and lavender showing up in the taste. The alcohol is very well hidden. Some caramel in the finish which is reminiscent of dried apricot. A nice heller bock.

50 cl. bottle. It pours an amber colour, with a rich creamy head that lasts a good while. Aroma is malty, with caramel and fruits, prunes. Some brandy flavor but there’s a metalic tone that I don’t like much. Taste is fruity, sweet, cherries and caramel.

Bottle @ home.
[Batch 2415] Clear medium red orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, fruity, light yeasty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, and a alcohol - pepper burn in the finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. (220608)

[bottle] Potent, spicy and dried fruit aroma. Clear amber under a lasting, lacy, tawny foam. Spicy melanoidins dominate a sweet, yet bitter nutty flavour. Good balance and has balls. Not very complex, though. Subtle fruity notes are smothered. Medium to full body, medium carbonation, slightly bitter finish. Solid, but not remarkable.

Shared this one w/ SkyCop32. Picked up at Maruhn Getränke in Darmstadt. Pours a crisp clear golden orangish color. Aromas of sweet malts and a touch of hops. Flavors of hops malts and something herbal. This one has a little alcohol kick in the tail. Nice!

Huge yellow-amber head; yellow-amber beer with, indeed a pale pink shine; very well carbonated. Slight bready nose, also something vaguely acidic. It’s probably the name suggesting, but I’m thinking of rosehips. Sweet, bready taste with a slight retronasal flavour of roasted bread with a disturbing flavour of mint, shortlived. Only medium bodied, fleeting alcohol impression; slick, but not cloying. Unlike the Doppelbock from Schmucker, rather uninteresting beer. Just a fancy name that lured me.