Stone Coast Knuckleball Bock

Brewed by Sunday River Brewpub and Restaurant
Style: Dunkler Bock
Bethel, Maine USA

Reddish-golden colour. Light aroma is mainly caramel. Soft and malty on the palate but aside from vague caramel there isn’t much nuance. Somewhat thing, especially for the style, and the finish disappears.

(12oz bottle) Clear amber body topped by small beige head, decent lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, brown sugar, some candi sugar, toasted caramel. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, seltzer. Watery light-medium body. Bleah!

12oz bottle. Poured a medium and cloudy amberish / brownish color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of roasted and toasted nuts, caramel, and earthy. Tastes of toasted caramel, roast, and earthy. Thinner tastes and thinner body.

Fading off-white head covers the cloudy medium brown shade. Immediately yeasty, almost belgianesque nose travels through earthiness before settling upon safer caramelly grounds. It kinda fails at procuring the expected toastiness, stays hesitant, does not quite attack the fruit plate and just does not seem very undertaking. Unclean example that certainly lacks the polished german savoir-faire.

Pours brown with a thin tan head. Smells of sweet malt amd fruity. Tastes fruity with some nuttiness and a vegetal finish.

My Bottom Line:
Clean bready maltiness offers scant sweetness but mostly contributes towards the body’s chewiness. Hops support, but are characterless and forgettable. This Dunkler Bock is not nearly as impressive as most of their other products.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam protects the copper hues.
-This is cleanly brewed, but entirely unmemorable.
-The soft carbonation lets the ample body shine, but there are so few flavors, it’s hard to get attached.
-A fruity nudge is not clearly defined.
-The linear flavor profile (overly simple maltiness) is its major downfall for me.

Bottle; no date.

12 oz bottle. Hazy amber coloured beer with a thin white head. Light pale malt aroma. No real sweetness in the flavour or much of anything else for that matter. Flavour is similar. Thin dirty malts along with corn and vegetal off-flavours. Warming brings some sourness. OK, I’ve had enough… down the drain with the remainder. Really terrible.

Draught pint sampled at Great Lost Bear in Portland ME with the illuminating and ruminating ClarkVV. Very, light, thin amber...looks more like an amber ale to me...urine and old veggies attract in the nose, but what do they attract? rats?...sour, spoiled fruit makes the body just as unpalatable, a bit of metal and sour milk to finish...amber lager is what this is, and an extremely poor one at that. Run for the hills!