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Maggie Maibock
Blue Mountain Brewery
- From:
- Blue Mountain Brewery
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Maibock
- ABV:
- 6.6%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 9.67%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 20, 2019
- Added:
- May 14, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Ratings by JasonTaverner:
Rated by JasonTaverner from Virginia
3.21/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Mar 28, 2015
3.21/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Mar 28, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Riff from Virginia
3.88/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours a clear orange-amber color with a thick, white head. Smell is sweet, caramel, malt with some notes of corriander, grass, and honey. Taste is bread, honey, toffee, a little bit of fresh hay, just a note of bitterness. Medium light body, nice carbonation. A great spring seasonal and solid rendition of what a maibock is.
Jun 20, 2019Rated by papat444 from Canada (QC)
3.44/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.44/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Best before 06/2015.
Nice brown bread aroma, bready malt flavor with hint of spices that appear more herb-like, all mild.
Jul 23, 2015Nice brown bread aroma, bready malt flavor with hint of spices that appear more herb-like, all mild.
Reviewed by delta490 from Virginia
3.52/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours an orangey amber with a just a hint of creamier white head. The aroma and the taste are both fairly nondescript malt, nothing really to get excited about. Not bad, but kinda "meh". The body is a little thin but has a decent carbonation to it.
Jun 18, 2015Reviewed by Jeffreysan from Virginia
3.93/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz bottle, poured into a pint glass
Appearance: Pours a pretty, slightly opaque, golden color, speckled with orange highlights and a quarter of a finger of white-head that quickly dissolved away into a thin lacing of foam that completely covered the top of the beer.
Aroma: Very nice aromas of bready, biscuit-like, toasted malt up front, along with some honey and caramel, honey-suckle, clover, straw, black pepper, coriander and cardamom.
Taste: Very nice flavors too! Tons of bready, biscuit-like, toasted malt up front, cracker-like and a little mineral-like, followed by lots of honey-like and a touch caramel-like sweetness, some spices of black pepper and coriander. The beer finishes with some floral, grassy, citrusy hops, but just a touch of it. Quite nice!
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied, crisp, refreshing and very effervescent, as there’s quite a lot of carbonation to tickle the taste buds. With an ABV of 6.6%, there is no alcohol on the palate.
Overall: This is a very tasty, very refreshing Maibock! Tons of malt and spices and some beautifully balanced hops. Very nice, Blue Mountain, very nice!
Jun 12, 2015Appearance: Pours a pretty, slightly opaque, golden color, speckled with orange highlights and a quarter of a finger of white-head that quickly dissolved away into a thin lacing of foam that completely covered the top of the beer.
Aroma: Very nice aromas of bready, biscuit-like, toasted malt up front, along with some honey and caramel, honey-suckle, clover, straw, black pepper, coriander and cardamom.
Taste: Very nice flavors too! Tons of bready, biscuit-like, toasted malt up front, cracker-like and a little mineral-like, followed by lots of honey-like and a touch caramel-like sweetness, some spices of black pepper and coriander. The beer finishes with some floral, grassy, citrusy hops, but just a touch of it. Quite nice!
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied, crisp, refreshing and very effervescent, as there’s quite a lot of carbonation to tickle the taste buds. With an ABV of 6.6%, there is no alcohol on the palate.
Overall: This is a very tasty, very refreshing Maibock! Tons of malt and spices and some beautifully balanced hops. Very nice, Blue Mountain, very nice!
Reviewed by Smakawhat from Maryland
4/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from the bottle into a Libbey style pilsner glass.
Bronze caramel with a great crystal clear brass tone to it. Minimal and slow rising carbonation but just the right amount. Head creation is minimal only a faint off white one finger head manages but settles to a thin puck and top. Fairly solid looker.
Interesting aroma. Sweet mix of toasty caramel, light brown bread, but sugary syrup as well. Slightly fruity a bit, but a mix of decent light character and crisp toffee notes. Nothing outrageous but once again pretty solid.
Interesting and unexpected on the palate. Fruity mid palate forward almost a mix between grape and raisin quality but a much lighter sweetness. The finish is all crisp toffee and really pops and grows big after the swallow. Light caramel and a good thin sticky quality in the palate as well.
It's a real simple animal overall, but it's great tasting and easy drinking and very much to style. Excellent drinker.
Apr 04, 2015Bronze caramel with a great crystal clear brass tone to it. Minimal and slow rising carbonation but just the right amount. Head creation is minimal only a faint off white one finger head manages but settles to a thin puck and top. Fairly solid looker.
Interesting aroma. Sweet mix of toasty caramel, light brown bread, but sugary syrup as well. Slightly fruity a bit, but a mix of decent light character and crisp toffee notes. Nothing outrageous but once again pretty solid.
Interesting and unexpected on the palate. Fruity mid palate forward almost a mix between grape and raisin quality but a much lighter sweetness. The finish is all crisp toffee and really pops and grows big after the swallow. Light caramel and a good thin sticky quality in the palate as well.
It's a real simple animal overall, but it's great tasting and easy drinking and very much to style. Excellent drinker.
Reviewed by superspak from North Carolina
3.78/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.78/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 7/2014. Pours slightly hazy deep golden color with a 1 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of pear, apple, biscuit, toast, light honey, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester notes; with solid strength. Taste of pear, apple, biscuit, toast, honey, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Fair amount of herbal/earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of pear, apple, biscuit, toast, honey, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and robustness of pale malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and lightly bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good maibock style. All around good robustness and balance of pale malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Oct 02, 2014Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.53/5 rDev +25.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.53/5 rDev +25.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This was a recent acquisition from the Friendly Greek Bottle Shop and since a picture exists and Maibocks seem to be on the menu this morning, this seems like a good time to get the review done and the bottle emptied. Wake up, Maggie Maibock, I got a glass to use for you!
From the bottle: "Heller Bock Lager Matt Nucci Brewdad"; "Part of the PROGENY SERIES from Blue Mountain Brewery".
Once more, the contrasting colors made the pseudo-cascade a sight to behold! Man, I could do this all day. My efforts resulted in three fingers of dense, eggshell-white head with lasting retention. Once again, the color was a deep, golden-yellow (SRM = > 5, < 7) with NE-quality clarity and I could see into the future, where I was back at the Greek, drinking beer. In the interim, since they had never left, the Unholy Trio of Mammon, Midas and Croesus were battling for a taste. Once more, the nose had that terrific combination of biscuit malts and grassy Noble hops and now, my mouth was watering. Either my overdosing with AIPAs has left me craving something else, or that AIPA obsession is wrong-headed and I should be branching out more often. Guess what? I am sticking with my AIPAs, but I can appreciate a well-made beer in another style. Great lacing began to appear in the glass as I typed and now I was ready! Mouthfeel was full, more towards creamy then the Troegs Maibock and the sweetness was a little more pronounced ("Statistics [:] 22 IBUs 16.2 Plato"), more honey-like than bready and still with some fusel alcohol heat. I felt compelled to break out the pretzels at this point and they really went well with this beer. Finish was bone-dry and I was coming to realize that I prefer it this way. I am not into sweets as a usual thing anyway and the dryness really allows for a clean finish with a definitive grassy aftertaste.
Jul 03, 2014From the bottle: "Heller Bock Lager Matt Nucci Brewdad"; "Part of the PROGENY SERIES from Blue Mountain Brewery".
Once more, the contrasting colors made the pseudo-cascade a sight to behold! Man, I could do this all day. My efforts resulted in three fingers of dense, eggshell-white head with lasting retention. Once again, the color was a deep, golden-yellow (SRM = > 5, < 7) with NE-quality clarity and I could see into the future, where I was back at the Greek, drinking beer. In the interim, since they had never left, the Unholy Trio of Mammon, Midas and Croesus were battling for a taste. Once more, the nose had that terrific combination of biscuit malts and grassy Noble hops and now, my mouth was watering. Either my overdosing with AIPAs has left me craving something else, or that AIPA obsession is wrong-headed and I should be branching out more often. Guess what? I am sticking with my AIPAs, but I can appreciate a well-made beer in another style. Great lacing began to appear in the glass as I typed and now I was ready! Mouthfeel was full, more towards creamy then the Troegs Maibock and the sweetness was a little more pronounced ("Statistics [:] 22 IBUs 16.2 Plato"), more honey-like than bready and still with some fusel alcohol heat. I felt compelled to break out the pretzels at this point and they really went well with this beer. Finish was bone-dry and I was coming to realize that I prefer it this way. I am not into sweets as a usual thing anyway and the dryness really allows for a clean finish with a definitive grassy aftertaste.
Maggie Maibock from Blue Mountain Brewery
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
43 ratings
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