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Summit Maibock

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59
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bottled
common

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available

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
2273.14/5.03.13/5.0Spring7.1%66.8Lager glass, Shaker, Stein
Commercial Description:
Early German monks created “bock” beer as a hearty beverage that would help sustain them during their Lenten fasts. The first bock beers were dark, but soon came “blonder” styles such as maibock. Maibocks have a rich, malty, full flavor. And, since our first brewhouse was from Heimertingen in Bavaria, we’ve honored that heritage by giving the name to our first lager beer.“Bock,” by the way, is German for “male goat.” It doesn’t make sense to us either.
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 edden (927), cow- lumbus, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/514/20
Mar 5, 2007  
3/5/07: Bottle.
Orange body with an off-white head that leaves a frothy lace on glass. Flowery, sweet honey aroma. Flavor of hops and honey.


 BeerandBlues2 (3216), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Mar 3, 2007  
Bottle. Pours sparkling yellow with an average-size frothy white head, somewhat lasting, good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (grain, straw, meal), average hops (herbs, grass), heavy yeast (sweat, musty) with notes of butter and paper. Medium bodied, oily texture, soft carbonation and a bitter finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness and bitterness, light acidity; sour milk.


 MrBunn (1533), Western, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Feb 27, 2007  
Bottle. Rather clear amber color with quite a bit of carbonation and a small white head that has died down to a thin surface covering in short order. Aromas are sweet and grainy with a little bit of a grassy note in the background. Flavor is much heavier than I expected. You can tell that it has a 7% ABV and there is a solid malt body that supports it. That said, I’m not sold on it... the flavors are OK, but nothing that is going to make my week. Subtle mix of intriguing flavors is not why you would buy this... Big alcohol body... sure.


 dkoonce (884), People’s Republic of Athens, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/515/20
Feb 15, 2007  
Bottle. Clear amber, with a thick durable pure white head. Very malty aroma, with a bit of fruit, perhaps melon. Fairly light body for such a high alcohol beer. Good balance of hops and a nice fizzy mouth feel.


 detroiter (958), Euphoria, Minnesota, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/517/20
Feb 3, 2007  
Pours a clear golden amber color with a quarter inch or so of foam. The head sticks around through much of the glass, but leaves minimal lacing. Mild sweet malt in the aroma. The texture of this beer is impressive - it is quite smooth, with a medium body and great carbonation. The taste is lightly sweet and malty, and very clean. There is a mild floral/herbal hopping that balances the malt nicely


 HumuloneRed (750), Portland, Oregon, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/515/20
Nov 15, 2006  
12 oz. bottle. Pours clear medium pale with a white head and a little lacing. Nice and malty with an earthy hop bite in the finish. Nice beer.


 dp (512), uniontown, Ohio, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/514/20
Oct 11, 2006  
has a bite to this, warms the stomach, malty, excellent on a dreary day, as always, impressed with Summit


 fly (1332), austin, Tejas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Aug 7, 2006  
perty ejnoyerbull. tain’t xacklee uh comuleetlee Germiane beer, but it gotums a qualewrty that provides lickwid refreshmint an all that thar. If’n you ast me whedder I be likin this ore them udder Summit beers I might tell you summit like gimmee an IPA. it be kinder sweet and kinder bitter and kinder Doug to give it to me.



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