Volendam Vølenbock

Brewed by Bierbrouwerij Volendam
Style: Dunkler Bock
Volendam, Netherlands

Bottled (from Cracked Kettle). Ambery pale nutbrown colour with mediumsized slightly off-white head. Aroma is bready and caramel malts slong with some slight notes of burnt sugar and some mild herbs. Flavour is a quite much the same along with some spices, earth and mild notes of alcohol.

Huge light-brown head over cola-coloured beer. Fresh bread/yeast nose, bit lactic. Outspoken liquorice taste, drop ; bitterish-sweet, faintly nutty. Apart from the liquorice flavour - which in itself isn’t too exciting - preciously little else and generally dull. Medium bodied, very slick to viscous, well-carbonated. Initiative, originality, tantalizing hints, complexity, etc, etc... somebody ever heard of?

Bottle 50cl. @ [ Back2Bock Tasting ].
Clear medium red amber color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081115]

Brown colored brew. Spicy aroma. Spicy, malty, sticky, chocolate, smoke. Dry.

Bottle: Poured a deep cloudy brown with a beige color head, the head was huge and long lasting. Aroma is spice, yeast, and some caramel hints. taste is a chalky chocolate with some winey fruit. Finish is dry.

A clear brown colored beer, with a big thick foamy beige head. The aroma of caramel, some chocolate with dark fruits. The taste of dark fruits, like prune, mocha, little chocolate. There is some bitter with a little sweet. The aftertaste is long bittersweet.

From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off-white head. Spiced and estery yeasty notes in the aroma. Sweet malty and estery fruity flavour with a mild bitternes showing through into a mild sweetend finish.

Draught, 6.5%. Spicy and wheaty aroma. Clear dark grey amber colour. Small stable head. The flavour is spicy and wheaty like the aroma. Slightly sweet. Tastes like a Dunkelweizen or perhaps a weak Weizenbock. Low carbonation, but pleasant.