Holsten Maibock

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Another Holsten beer that is available as cans only in Southern Ontario. This beer pours a clear brownish gold with a thin white, almost non-existent head that quickly makes itself...non-existent. The aroma is traditional maltiness with some light citrusy fruit hints and some hops. The flavour is very weak. One can detect grainy malt, but not much else.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

500ml can
7.0% ABV
Milton LCBO Outlet #1 (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
March 18, 2008
The beer poured a translucent orangy-gold colour with a generous white fluffy head that disappeared quite quickly. The aroma was very grassy with very little other discernable aromas. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied, ample carbonation, with a little bitterness. The flavour was again a lot of grass with a little bit of hoppy bitterness. When it comes to Holsten brews, this is not as good as the Festbock, but better than the Premium.

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

Never reviewed a Maibock before I’ve drank plenty but this the first review. Beer looked bronzy gold and very clear tons of carbonation is bubbling up from the bottom, a quarter inch crown was produced and is lasting a reasonable amount of time, this beer looks to light colored but I’ll check my manual, oh after checking this is what it is suppose to look like so I guess it’s all good then. Aroma has lots of metallic hops and is very sweet, apple and some standard sour German malts are coming through as well. The flavor starts out bitter but finishes appley sweet, malts are smooth and rich tasting with a slight burnt quality. Beer feels nice and smooth, medium bodied and has good carbonation. The flavor has a very clean finish with zero after taste. This is drinkable better than most German beers I sample, I can see myself drinking this again however I wouldn’t buy it ever again.

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

Golden Brown colour with a wee bit of head. No noticable aroma but a very sharp sweet attack with a bit of bitterness on the aftertaste. Not a very complex beer and certainly not as complex as many imports or even some micrbrew products. The german equivalent of Faxe?

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

Deep gold body with a white cap. Sweet malty aroma. The taste is mostly of malts and moves to some slight hops and filler. Medium bodied, a surprise that I wasn't expecting. I didn't expect much out of it before I tried it, and the end result is being surprised with the turnout.

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

Pours orange cold colour with good cap that lasted. Aroma was of alcohol and mild hop. Taste was strong alcohol with some malt. Little hop taste. Brutal aftertaste. Found this a very difficult to drink beer and will not be buying it ever again. Very poor IMO.

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

I guess the main impression that they are trying to relay to you on the can is the fact that the 7.0% is very very noticable. Aim for that upperclass underpass consumer. Appearance is ok in colour, but it's missing the nice long lasting white head. Almost no head and only had lacing during the middle of the beer. Light weak amber in colour. Still bubbling. Aroma is mostly dry lightly roasted malts which are in good quantity - the alcohol stink has almost disapeared now that it's warm and almost consumed. I chose to drink this really warm cause drinking it cold really would've sucked. So my review is done with a warm beer. My beer is also warm cause I just spent half an hour on Brew Tycoon. Shit, this stuff has went straight to my head. Taste is quite strong with alcohol and noticable spiced hops (pepper feel). The rest is all malts, lots of them, but nothing particularily tantilizing. Still the alcohol is overabundant. Mouthfeel is not bad, quite carbonated earlier which was good, some spice and bitterness in the finish. Still more alcohol. I'm going to chase this with a pint of Grey Goose. No, check that. I'm going to chase this with 2 bottles of St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout...YEA! ..and I'm listening to Motorhead's Ace of Spades on permanent repeat! Break a neck!

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 3

Wow, what a let down....this is in no way a maibock...more like a characterless high-test Euro malt liquor .... Animal house does Deutschland! Came in a 500ML can bragging that it complied with the German purity act ...guess it's there to fool the rustics who think anything from Eroupe is quality. Poured a light lager-like gold with a tiny head that went away in a minute....no effervescence in the glass, no lace, no ring... when the head left it looked flat and unappealing. Had virtually no aromas with a singular wisp of alcohol mingled with a slight spice smell. Started thin and flat went to a weak mouth feel with miniscule malt tastes and a sligt hint of hopp then the finish was ...well....gonzo!....sweet malt completely overpowered by the taste of our old friend ALCOHOL...I poured the rest out...If you want to get gooned on GOOD Euro strong beer buy an Okocim Mocne...leave this Teutonic urine sample on the shelf.

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

First time for me tasting that style...And i was quite surprise how sweet it was...Nice golden color with a white head which last.The aroma was fruity with a hint of alcohol scent,flavor was candy with some malt also some apple note,mouthfeel it's sweet and smooth liquorous...I'm ready for more of that style.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Well the aroma is strong and that's the only redeeming quality of this crap as it tastes like apple juice. Why do people swear this is good beer? What a waste of a 240th review.