Mike's Hemp Bock
Mike's Organic Brewery
- From:
- Mike's Organic Brewery
- New Zealand
- Style:
- Bock
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.24 | pDev: 2.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 04, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 24, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.14/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.14/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Pours an amber colour, with light beige head. Nice density; fairly foamy but retaining well. Decent colour too.
Smells quite sweet upfront: vanilla and toffee mostly. Odd herbal notes on the back, with white pepper and a touch of sweet spice. Not bad.
Taste is very sweet as well. Lots of caramel malt for the most part with some herbal notes towards the back. Quite light, with a lot of empty notes on the palate. A bit odd at times and just a fair few different characters that don't fulfill their potential.
Body is a little thin, which allows a warming alcohol to show through. Not harsh, but the beer still feels a little light.
Fairly bland effort, to be honest, could have used its constituent parts and made a more impressive beer.
Jul 04, 2014Smells quite sweet upfront: vanilla and toffee mostly. Odd herbal notes on the back, with white pepper and a touch of sweet spice. Not bad.
Taste is very sweet as well. Lots of caramel malt for the most part with some herbal notes towards the back. Quite light, with a lot of empty notes on the palate. A bit odd at times and just a fair few different characters that don't fulfill their potential.
Body is a little thin, which allows a warming alcohol to show through. Not harsh, but the beer still feels a little light.
Fairly bland effort, to be honest, could have used its constituent parts and made a more impressive beer.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.33/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
A "traditional" bock, they say, albeit one with hemp added to the mashing water. Brewed for GABS 2014, where I tried it on tap.
Pours a solid, reddish-amber hue with a solid body. Fairly clear in terms of haze. Head forms a very fine ring of yellow-white that leaves a little lace. Looks pretty good all up.
Nose is toasty and slightly organic. Nice seedy aromatics give a toasty spicy hint laced with a robust malt presence. There may indeed be a hint of hemp there giving it a fragrant nuttiness. It's certainly interesting.
Light entry on the palate with a little volatile fragrance. The middle has a little acidity to it, although that may just come from the darker malts combined with a fairly light body. Finish is fairly light and clean, but again it lets the acidity through which isn't really what you want. Feel is light but supple.
The hemp is an unusual addition, although it doesn't really drive this beer. Unfortunately the base bock is a little lacklustre, meaning that it ends up seeming a lot less interesting than it should be.
Jun 24, 2014Pours a solid, reddish-amber hue with a solid body. Fairly clear in terms of haze. Head forms a very fine ring of yellow-white that leaves a little lace. Looks pretty good all up.
Nose is toasty and slightly organic. Nice seedy aromatics give a toasty spicy hint laced with a robust malt presence. There may indeed be a hint of hemp there giving it a fragrant nuttiness. It's certainly interesting.
Light entry on the palate with a little volatile fragrance. The middle has a little acidity to it, although that may just come from the darker malts combined with a fairly light body. Finish is fairly light and clean, but again it lets the acidity through which isn't really what you want. Feel is light but supple.
The hemp is an unusual addition, although it doesn't really drive this beer. Unfortunately the base bock is a little lacklustre, meaning that it ends up seeming a lot less interesting than it should be.
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