Sudwerk Maibock

Delicious body of malty love. For an example of clean lager characteristics and smooth maltiness, try this beer. A fine sweet grain flavor dominates this one. Just a tiny tingle of hop on the finish. Right beer for cool Southern California evenings and bonfires.

On tap at the 2008 Boonville Beer Festival and in bottles. This is a good, crisp, very tasty maibock with a slightly more pronounced hoppy bite than I usually expect. It is light copper gold with a dense, creamy, off-white head steadily shrinking to a thin head. The smell is raisiny with fruity grain and some hops, honey, bread dough, hay, a bit alcoholic, but smoothly so. The tatse is similar, sweetish, but with a light spicey bitterness and bite, fruity, zesty, a creamy feel and grassy-herbal bitterness with a hint of apple peel. Overall, it is clean and crisp yet very tasty.

Thanks for DarkElf for the recommendation! Golden, bright and sparkling. Big malt nose is very clean. Fat malty, bready palate is clean and rich. A little bit of dryness makes this "moreish", to steal a phrase from Jackson. Very good.

Tap at Brewery. This is big maltly but clean tasting beer with a big malt syrup/caramel aftertaste. Easy drinking for so much alcohol.

Bottle. Thanks to Stephen (DarkElf) for thsi stuff. What an aroma. I love the smell of roasted grains and baby they are all over this. Nice, lasting almost white head. Nice malty taste. There is jus a touch of aluminum going on but the sweetness just about covers it up. Nice flavor.