Goats Peak Bock
Paper City Brewery Co., Inc.

 

 

 

 

Pours a light amber color with a decent one-finger head into my glass. Very nice presentation.

A good hint of sweet malt in the nose with a bit of a caramel feel to it. Crisp.

Talk about bursting with flavor. Very easy to drink and better than a few macro examples I've had.

Plenty of lingering sweetness on the palate. More of that crispness as well. Clearly nothing offensive.

Overall, this is a very nice example of the style. As I said, easy to drink as any good bock should be.

12 oz bottle, Bottled Wednesday February 9th. 2 days old.

pours a nice copper color with golden edges. Nice 2 finger head that laces well.

Nice crisp lager/bock aromas. Nice hop presence being grassy and herbal. Crisp malt presence being very bready and grainy.

Extremely fresh and crisp! Very doughy and malty with a very nice herbal hop tine that makes this sprong lager so so balanced.

Medium mouthfeel with a semi dry finish.

Very good drinkability. A great spring beer that will never disappoint!

Appearance - A copper/amber color. Lots of carbonation, nice head that stays with the beer but thins out considerably 1/2 way. Fair amount of lacing.

Smell - Sweet smelling malts, light grape smell, smells similar to an amber beer, a little dusky. Very pleasant.

Taste - I like it, I would say it is a tasty beer. The only thing is it's not much of a Bock, tastes more like an Amber beer. You can taste the hops and they work well with the beer. The hops aren't just there but they also don't take away from the flavor. Its a sweet beer. As much as I like the taste, it is a little too much like candy. Candy in the sense that its not a full or robust flavor rather its the sweet kind of flavor that stays with you like a Jolly Rancher. Its not a bad thing but something I'd expect from the more gimmicky beers to do like Shock Top.

Mouth feel - Pretty good overall. This beer is more on the light side. I'm not a big fan of the after-taste but in as far as when you are done drinking, between each sip its fine. I'm sitting with a kind of metallic taste in my mouth, which is very strange since I drank it out of the bottle. Its not the hop finish either like some of the other reviews are mentioning. When I had it on tap at the Paper City Brewery I didn't notice the strange after-taste but I also had 4 beers in the same cup before I tried it.

Drinkability - Great, a friendly beer for all. Anyone could pick this beer up and enjoy 2 or 3 no problem.

Serving type: Bottle for review but also tried on tap.

The beer pours a dark golden color with a thick frothy offwhite head that slowly fades to lacing. The aroma is less than average. It has a pale/pilsner malt scent with some light crystal malts as well. There is some kind of contamination here. It has an oxidized aroma that's fruity and dry. The taste is average. It has a grainy pilsner and crystal malt flavor that goes down with some reluctance and finishes with an oxidized off-taste. The mouthfeel is average as well. It is a low bodied beer with a little too much carbonation. This could be a good beer or at least a decent beer minus the flaws.

This one is very odd. The front label calls it a Spring Lager and the back label has it as a Goats Peak Bock. Well, this is a poor excuse for a Bock beer. Actually I was going to add this beer under the Spring Lager moniker and more appropriately label it a Vienna Lager.

The beer is a copper color, very clear, modestly carbonated, some foamy white head around the rim of the glass. The nose is slightly musty, some sweet malts, some citrus notes, maybe a bit of strawberry or apricot. This beer is very light, very refreshing, very watery, very smooth. There is no prickliness or bite to this beer at all. There are zero hops that I can detect. The beer doesn't have much taste, just a light kiss of floral, some light citrus, and then nothing more. The sweetness really comes out of this beer once it warms. As it warms up, it is taking on characteristics of a fruity beer. It's an okay beer, but this is no bock beer that is for sure.

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle bought off the discount shelf at the local beer store.

A- Looks a light caramel color with a one inch head that stuck around for a minute. Not as dark as I expected.

S- Smells more like an Amber than a Bock. Nothing special.

T- This surprised me! Very good sweet malty start and then a surprise hop finish.

M- Medium-body.

D- I could easily drink 3 or 4 in a sitting. Nice job Paper City!

The label has a white goat perched atop rocks. The bottle says that the name comes from a peak on Mount Tom in Holyoke, MA. According to my notebook "Today seemed like the first real day of spring that we've had, so when picking a out a beer I thought a Maibock would be appropriate."

Pours a clear copper with sparse, but steady bubbles rising to feed the frothy, sudsy, off-white head that's retained as a film. Sheets of lace form on the sides of the glass. The aroma is rich and malty with bready and biscuity notes, a sharp fruitiness, a bit of alcohol and a hint of herbal hops.

There's an interplay between sweet, caramel malts and toasty, bready malts upfront. The sweetness prevails in the center with a hint of fresh, almost citric fruitiness. Leafy, herbal hops quickly match the sweetness for a nice, crisp, balanced finish. Light-bodied, crisp and highly carbonated.

Flavorful, balanced and very tasty.

Pours a nice 1 inch white fizzy head that slowly creeps down. No real lacing to speak of.

Smells musty, dusty, like when you clean a dry attic. Slight floral hops, and almost a light fruit smell.

Grain and lots of it, cold green grapes covered in sweet malt.

Good clean feeling beer, nice for the spring, good selection by the Paper City crew.

Paper City Spring Lager
12 oz brown bottle
Served in a 20 oz tulip pint glass

Pours a hazy amber peach with a fluffy white head on top. Nice sticky lace patterns.

The nose is bready and husky.

Strong toasted grain presence with that lager smoothness. The mouthfeel is full and has a bready quality. A mini hop snap on the finish. A nicely crafted beer that was very enjoyable.

This one I noticed out of the corner of my eye at Ruggeri's in Greenfield.

Paper City seems to be beefing up their marketing scheme, as the generic labels of yesteryear have give way to a more clever scheme. To the beer...

Nothing outstanding, but nonetheless a pretty decent offering. Nice body, slight head, mild hop notes, and one hell of a Europeon pedigree. Slighty bitter finish, ultimaltey ending dry on the tongue.

Not a bad beer overall, but for the money, I'll be looking at another style next go round.

Paper City Goats Peak Bock:

Great stuff…everything a bock ought to be: a medium bodied and drinkable as hell showcase of toasty malt, with a crisp clean easy hop finish. Not enough of this style being brewed around these parts. A top notch brew that I look forward to every spring.

Cheers…

Thanks to MuddyFeet and BIF20 for the chance to try this one. Pours from the bottle a clear dark copper with just a hint of red and a nice foamy inch of head. Aromas of sweet caramel malt that also exhibits an underlying bready quality. Hints of light fruits along with an herbally hop background that has some floral tones as well. Nice..but nothing really grabs me here.

First sip brings a rush of sweet caramel coated bready maltiness along with a helping of fruits and raisins. Falls down the back of the throat with some grassy, floral hops and just the slightest touch of bitterness. Interesting flavor...but it just doesn't grab me.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a nice chewy malt body that creates a full sensation. Not something I'd be looking for more than one of....but still a well built beer overall.

A clean dark amber/copper beer. Has a big foamy beige head. The aroma is a light sweet cereal with hints of caramel on the background. Nice and sweet on the tongue with carmel and licorice notes. A nice light and smooth mouth feel. Does not hit the tongue hard like some Bocks.

Picked up a bottle of this on Saturday. THe beer is poured chilled into a pint glass. A clear amber color is evident and a small fizzy off white head foams up and fades rather quickly to a thin edge layer.
Aroma is caramel and some spicy hops, the malt profile is slightly grainy.
First sip reveals a fine yet prickly carbonation with average body.
The beer is clean and crisp, while the flavor is swee toffee up front then some grainy/husky malt, and a hint of roast comes through as well. Not a whole lot of hop profile here. A refreshing easy to drink brew. Not bad.

Poured a light brown in color without any head. Nose is very slight, and only of malts. Taste is pretty nice. Malts take over the mouth with a slight hop bitterness at the end. Just enough to give the beer adequate balance. Very sweet. Mouthfeel is a little bit creamy too. Medium body, but not watery at all. Not very carbonated either.

Had some of a growler. Pours slightly cloudy amber-red with a rich foamy head. Smell consists of weak malts with alcohol. Taste was mainly bitter at first, then slight caramel creamy sweet notes. Finish was lacking. It became a little sweeter as it sat, but the finish didn't balance. I've had better offerings from this brewery.