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Special Edition - Bock Beer
Mendocino Brewing Company
- From:
- Mendocino Brewing Company
- United States
- Style:
- Bock
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 10.51%
- Reviews:
- 115
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 22, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 09, 2008
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
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Ratings by merlin48:
Reviewed by merlin48 from Kentucky
3.59/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bottle pours a slightly hazed, orange/amber body with a small offwhite head that quickly fades to a cap with scanty wisps of lace.
Nice aroma of toasted caramel, buttered toffee, and fruity red apple esters.
Mouthfeel has a medium body and carbonation.
Taste has an overly assertive hop presence for the style, with pine, earthy, and grassy bitterness that overwhelms the malt character. Toasty caramel flavors are certainly present, but simply too dry and bitter for a good bock. Just a hint of alcohol warmth.
Aroma is the high point of this one. I wish some of the fruity apple esters from the nose could've carried over to the palate.
Jul 22, 2009Nice aroma of toasted caramel, buttered toffee, and fruity red apple esters.
Mouthfeel has a medium body and carbonation.
Taste has an overly assertive hop presence for the style, with pine, earthy, and grassy bitterness that overwhelms the malt character. Toasty caramel flavors are certainly present, but simply too dry and bitter for a good bock. Just a hint of alcohol warmth.
Aroma is the high point of this one. I wish some of the fruity apple esters from the nose could've carried over to the palate.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.12/5 rDev -15.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -15.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
Mix of yellow and gold color, aroma was mildly grainy. Not much else going on.
Tastes like a breadier version of their lager, bock meets biere de garde type of stuff going on. Relatively light mouthfeel, minorly toasted pale malt. Hides the alcohol relatively well.
Middle of the road stuff.
Jan 19, 2016Tastes like a breadier version of their lager, bock meets biere de garde type of stuff going on. Relatively light mouthfeel, minorly toasted pale malt. Hides the alcohol relatively well.
Middle of the road stuff.
Reviewed by Lemke10 from Wisconsin
4.01/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
This pours a semi-clear, dark amber color with a fluffy beige head. The scent is mostly yeast and malts with no prelude of what to expect in the taste. The taste is a complex blend of yeast, citrus, malts, and bread that finishes with an ever so slight bitterness. There’s a lot going on here making it very tasty and enjoyable. It drinks smooth and has great volume. Quite well made.
Jan 15, 2013Reviewed by Beerandraiderfan from Nevada
3.08/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Mix of dirty gold and light copper in the appearance. Aroma was fairly clean, not much to speak of.
Taste, reminiscient of just a regular lager, pretty clean body, light hopping, light toasting/roasting to it, mild sweetness. Probably a little more hops than in a traditional bock, but at least it keeps this beer mildly interesting by doing such a thing.
Didn't think there was as much caramel in this thing as many of the reviews mention it, the body and mouthfeel seem to be much lighter than a caramel reference. Just a lot of pale malt and noble hops maybe. A little cleanliness of the overall beer lets a little warming alcohol in.
Jan 02, 2012Taste, reminiscient of just a regular lager, pretty clean body, light hopping, light toasting/roasting to it, mild sweetness. Probably a little more hops than in a traditional bock, but at least it keeps this beer mildly interesting by doing such a thing.
Didn't think there was as much caramel in this thing as many of the reviews mention it, the body and mouthfeel seem to be much lighter than a caramel reference. Just a lot of pale malt and noble hops maybe. A little cleanliness of the overall beer lets a little warming alcohol in.
Reviewed by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania
3.08/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.08/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
This poured out as a brown color, it had a good amount of clarity to it also. The head was foamy and tan in color. The lacing was decent but nothing too sticky on the glass. The smell of the beer had a good amount of malts on the nose and gave off some toasted caramel notes. The taste of the beer was sweet and had a nice lightly roasted finish to it. The mouthfeel of the beer had a medium body with a good carbonation to it. Overall this bock wasn't too bad but it wasn't one I needed to have again.
Jan 02, 2012
Special Edition - Bock Beer from Mendocino Brewing Company
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
130 ratings
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