King Brewery Pilsbock

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

NOt a bad little beer. Still not sure what an 'Imperial' pilsener is, but if this is it, then it's a pretty good style. Clear gold in colour with metallic lustre-like tinges. It's a little sweet in the aroma and the taste, but a nice malty beer!

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

341ml bottle
6.5% ABV
Bar Volo (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
November 5, 2008
$6.95
The beer poured a beautiful translucent dark gold (with reddish hues) in a tulip glass with almost no head. The aroma was bready malt, some maple notes, and yeast. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour is malty, some yeasty notes, some caramel, and a little hops.

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

Thanks Pootz for the sample. 341 ml brown bottle, no date on label, 6.5% alcohol listed. Pours a dark golden orangish color, with a white foamy head. Foam thins to a floating cap and left lots of thin trails of lace. Lots of malt smell with light fruity hops. Well balanced flavors, strong maltiness, slightly sweet, then finish with some balancing hops at the end. Slight alcohol aftertaste. Full bodied, solid yet still refreshing, a very tasty brew.

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

Fair is the word that continued to come up. I could detect little - if any - bock characteristics, if not for the alcohol percentage listed on the bottle. I could not detect the alcohol in the beer itself, very well hidden. Surprisingly nice aroma. Some light hops. As clean of a mouthfeel as appearence - your standard typical clear, golden shade. Taste is fair. Pretty complete but very standard. Falls apart quickly, hardly any finish. Could there be more? Well, makes a pretty good pilsner (I prefer it to their regular one) but I don't know how well works out as an Imperial Pilsner. All in all, very fair. Fair.

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

Fresh from the brewer...this put a deep golden lager in my glass with a wonderful frothy white 2 finger cap that retains well then reduced to a surface-clinging cap which lasted out the drink and laced the glass ....(lots of malt in this baby!) Aroma punctuated by large sweet pale malts, a wee hint of fruits like a peach cider, some floral hops and a whiff of alcohol. Full bodied....very smooth delivery. Big crystal malts up front...like biting a fresh baked bisquit, a little sweetness, saaz hops sit in the background until the finish where they show up with some balancing tartness. After taste is sweet, bready...and warming. Alcohol is totally hidden. Not a dry pilsner and not intended to be...the finish is rather wet and sweet like a bock...but there is enough Pilzen character here to distinguish this as a pilsen-bock and not a helles bock. The wonderful malt spine in this bock and in the rich dunkel from this brewer, has to be the result of double decoction mashing...a German and Czech brewing art...glad to see a Canadian micro brewer using this process to get great malty lagers .