Berghoff Famous Bock

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Poured out a copper coloured beer with lots of bubbles, small sized cap but it is creamy and tan and leaves some ropy lacing. Smells way better warmer, nice sweet malts, slightly roasted but dry, touch of hops, decent but off for a bock. Taste: Notable bitterness, soft malts, a spice that belongs in pumpkin pie when colder, I do not like the hops in here at all. Light to medium bodied, a bit tingly, good swish, sweet caramel and acceptable bitterness. Dry finish. At least Berghoff is constant with quality.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Pours a semi clear brown colour with a small thin nutty tan head. Somewhat malty in the initial taste but midpalate evolves into a more satisfying yet average bock representation. nutty, with roasted malts and carmelly toasted taste.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Lovely dark copper color with some ruby highlights. A brisk pour leaves a fluffy tan sticky 3 finger cap that lasts and laces well. Aroma is more biased to the cocoa-coffee tones with some sweet bread dough under this...nice..smells like a rich dunkel. Moderate malt spine, medium bodied, soft mouth feel with a persistant dryish coffee-cocoa charater. Profile: Up front a tad sweet with maltose but this vanishes instantly as a rush of hops and astringent black patent malt "char" dry up the sweetness in the malts...nice silky middle where the body becomes chocolatey and mellow...drying finish with plenty of mocha-semisweet cocoa notes which drain off into a chocolate-bready aftertaste. A decent all malt commercial single bock meant for those who like more than one of these husky dark lagers. If I lived back in Calagay again I’d have this in the fridge all the time in stead of a dunkel...very drinkable single bock with a dunkel flavor profile. Very reminiscent of Creemore UrBock but with more pronounced flavors.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

Pours a brown looking color with a off-white/slightly tan 2 finger foamy head that descipated very quickly, seconds not minutes. left absolutely 0 lace, non to be seen... ANYWHERE... Aroma was caramel, butter & roasted malts. The taste was of weak malts and some slight caramel, not much goin on for the tastebuds with this one. Mouthfeel is weak and thin, there is some slight hoppiness in the aftertaste, but not a while lot. glad i didnt buy this but instead got pawned on me by Beercronic... not that good of a bock!!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

If you're looking for a medium bock at an affordable price then this is worth a try. A far cry from some of the thick & chewy bocks, this pours medium brown with a decent nose...the head was thin, the flavor was good. Again, for the price this is a good beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Pours a dark amber with a thin white head. Pleasant malty aroma. Flaovor is a nice balance of malts and hops, but there is just not enough of it. Not the best bock beer out there, but not horrible. Won't make any special effort to get it.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Lite in colour (brownish amber), mild bock flavour, good nose, a mild bock that is very satisfying. Berghoff as a whole makes satisfying but not great beer. This and their Summer Solstice Wit are the exceptions. This is a lot like Leinenkugel's Big Butt Dopplebock. A very good beer.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

A rather disappointing bock from these dudes. Not much hop profile, even for a bock, just plain flat and not the cara/vienna/munich I really expected for the style. Good brown color but not much at all in the way of head nor lacing, sadly.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Pours dark brown. The head was short and unimpressive and there was no lacing. The aroma was mainly malty. The flavor was boring malt too with just a hint of toffee. Thin, unsatisfying, and nearly flat. I probably wouldn't drink it again.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Sampled from bottle. Pours a clear, dark ruby-brown with a minimal light-tan head. Aroma is too subtle and slightly sour. Flavor is dominated by roasted malts as opposed to munich and vienna (not good for style points) and has a bitter finish. Might be a small flavor hop addition, which is good for me, but bad for the style. Light bodied for a bock, and smooth. Perhaps more of a dunkel than a bock due to lack of robust malt character, see Shiner Bock.