Helles Honey Bock
Third Base Sports Bar & Brewery
- From:
- Third Base Sports Bar & Brewery
- Iowa, United States
- Style:
- Maibock
- ABV:
- 3.1%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.94 | pDev: 29.25%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2011
- Added:
- Sep 17, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Sixty pounds of pure Iowa wildflower honey and Belgian Munich malt give this ale a great complex flavor.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
3.66/5 rDev +24.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4.5
3.66/5 rDev +24.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 4.5
Dark and hazy like a wheatbeer. Nice head.
Very light and faint smell. A little bit of honey, a little bit of grain, and little bit of astringent alcohol.
The astringent is killed in the flavor, thank god, overwhelmed by honey. Zippy and sweet upfront moving into a more sour taste of grain in the middle and ending on bittersweet notes. Pretty nice.
The body is as thin as water. That leads to a very drinkable beer, actually, since it goes down...well, like water.
May 04, 2005Very light and faint smell. A little bit of honey, a little bit of grain, and little bit of astringent alcohol.
The astringent is killed in the flavor, thank god, overwhelmed by honey. Zippy and sweet upfront moving into a more sour taste of grain in the middle and ending on bittersweet notes. Pretty nice.
The body is as thin as water. That leads to a very drinkable beer, actually, since it goes down...well, like water.
Reviewed by BuckeyeNation from Iowa
2.19/5 rDev -25.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
2.19/5 rDev -25.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
The menu stated that Helles Honey Bock is made with 60 lbs. of Iowa wildflower honey and Belgian Munich malt. Clean, golden honey capped by a scant cotton white head that fell in minutes to near nothing and left thin, clingy, ragged sheets of lace. This was the first beer that I've ever had that had no aroma. Question is, how do I rate 'nothing'?
Hideously undermalted, much more so than the ESB that I had prior. HHB was skeletally thin and had a sweet, lightly grain-like flavor that tasted nothing like honey until the finish. Strangely enough, most of the honey beer that I've run across hides the honey flavor until the finish; this one was no exception.
No hops to speak of and almost no bitterness. The body was anorectic, although it kept its structure throughout, barley avoiding watery. It was also more mineral-like than the ESB; probably due to the lack of hops and the lack of flavor in general.
Helles Honey Bock is not good beer, even by Iowa brewpub standards. In fact, it has too many faults to even attempt a salvage operation. My recommendation to the brewer is to start over and my recommendation to the customer is to order something else.
Sep 20, 2004Hideously undermalted, much more so than the ESB that I had prior. HHB was skeletally thin and had a sweet, lightly grain-like flavor that tasted nothing like honey until the finish. Strangely enough, most of the honey beer that I've run across hides the honey flavor until the finish; this one was no exception.
No hops to speak of and almost no bitterness. The body was anorectic, although it kept its structure throughout, barley avoiding watery. It was also more mineral-like than the ESB; probably due to the lack of hops and the lack of flavor in general.
Helles Honey Bock is not good beer, even by Iowa brewpub standards. In fact, it has too many faults to even attempt a salvage operation. My recommendation to the brewer is to start over and my recommendation to the customer is to order something else.
Reviewed by RBorsato from Virginia
3.92/5 rDev +33.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +33.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
On tap 9/15/04 at Cedar Brewing Co.
Light gold with a white head. Honey stands out in aroma and taste without being sweet. Malt and hops flavors fairly subdued in comparison. Light-medium bodied with a light heather spice (hop?) finish.
Per beer menu and CB website: "60 lbs of Iowa Wildflower Honey and Belgian Munich Malt"
By far, the best of Cedar's lighter colored brews. Not as hearty as I normally like in a Bock but one I'd go back to once in a while...
4.8% ABW / 6.0% ABV
Sep 17, 2004Light gold with a white head. Honey stands out in aroma and taste without being sweet. Malt and hops flavors fairly subdued in comparison. Light-medium bodied with a light heather spice (hop?) finish.
Per beer menu and CB website: "60 lbs of Iowa Wildflower Honey and Belgian Munich Malt"
By far, the best of Cedar's lighter colored brews. Not as hearty as I normally like in a Bock but one I'd go back to once in a while...
4.8% ABW / 6.0% ABV
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