It's rare that I taste a beer from one of the large breweries in Munich, but this weekend I spotted a limited edition brew from Paulaner, and I was sufficiently curious to give it a whirl.
The style of this beer is "Bock", Google it if you don't know it. The advertising people have put out this little image of the beer, and glass:
I, on the other hand, am "putting out" this little image of the beer, and glass, and balcony table in-the-sun:
As you can see, the beer is a muddy reddish-brown. It's not very transparent, evidence of non-filtration. The head carries a little of the colour, just leaning towards a lighter shade of caramel.
The aroma is inviting. It has some sweetened coffee tones mingled with a touch of floral (there's that word again) hops. The long end of the aroma has the slightest toe-tap of sweet fresh lake water to it. Not in a clammy weedy sense, but like an alpine stream fed lake.
The flavours are at first tropical almost. Perhaps pineapple and passion-fruit. There's almost no bitterness at all. Then you get a nice waft of late-season apple or ripe banana.
This is a fruity beer, one of the fruitiest I have tasted in a long while. It could pass as a sweet Weizen without too much tinkering. I would say it is let down by the lack of bitterness, something a little more "herb" would give it a full and rounded finish.
I award 4 out of 7.
The style of this beer is "Bock", Google it if you don't know it. The advertising people have put out this little image of the beer, and glass:
As you can see, the beer is a muddy reddish-brown. It's not very transparent, evidence of non-filtration. The head carries a little of the colour, just leaning towards a lighter shade of caramel.
The aroma is inviting. It has some sweetened coffee tones mingled with a touch of floral (there's that word again) hops. The long end of the aroma has the slightest toe-tap of sweet fresh lake water to it. Not in a clammy weedy sense, but like an alpine stream fed lake.
The flavours are at first tropical almost. Perhaps pineapple and passion-fruit. There's almost no bitterness at all. Then you get a nice waft of late-season apple or ripe banana.
This is a fruity beer, one of the fruitiest I have tasted in a long while. It could pass as a sweet Weizen without too much tinkering. I would say it is let down by the lack of bitterness, something a little more "herb" would give it a full and rounded finish.
I award 4 out of 7.
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