ZiegenBock Amber
Anheuser-Busch

Had a few bottles while visiting @ San Antonio area. Beautiful rich burnt orange walnut brown brew. Nice fluffy head but which disappears pretty quickly. Soft malty nose.
A bit heavier body than what many/most amber lagers provide. Better than most grocery store Texas ambers and bocks. Not a real craft brew… but It definitely grew on me :)
And after I got home I found it had won Silver at GABF …granted quite a few years back.

 

 

 

Blech. I've never had an "amber lager" that tasted like Budweiser until now. Seriously, I almost think they add brown coloring to it or something. NO malt taste whatsoever. None at all. Just corn lager sweetness and thin as water mouthfeel. I'd say it's a good lawnmower beer, but at $11 a six pack it's overpriced for that. I know Texas people love it, but I'd take Shiner over this easily, and I don't even really like Shiner either. Hard pass.

 

This beer is pretty good and doesn’t deserve its poor rating.

6-pack from H-E-B

 

Despite of being rated in the poor category this beer is not bad or poor by any means. I'm not sure if it's a bock though. It's an American amber lager with the decieving brand name of Ziegenbock. I Shiner Bock is a bock by definition. Ziegenbock has a higher ABV% than Shiner Bock with Ziegen at 4.9% to Shiner's 4.5% which wins Ziegen over for me. Shiner is rated correctly but I have to disagree with the POOR status of ZB. It should at least be tied with Shiner. I'm giving ZB a 4.25 rating to help justify it at a higher level in the ranks.

Clear, golden amber color; decent head. Nice, pleasant aroma; a hint of sweet grain. Warm, toasty grain flavor; very little bitterness. Easy, smooth mouth feel, almost slippery.

Poured this in a paper coffee cup to sample at a Super 8 in Giddings, TX. While some of the visuals weren't readily available to assess, everything else seemed pretty good. This is not a high-end bock, but it does have some solid grain, slightly caramel like flavor.

ABV: 4.9%; pouring temperature: unk; bottling info: 24052 HU1139
Source: purchased somewhere northwest of Austin

 

 

For me, this is the best beer available in the Houston area. I don't drink more than one or two beers a day in the evening time.
I drink this one from the long neck bottle.
About half the time I drink it at room temperature as that's where the flavor is magnified in my opinion. And the bubbly mouth feel is better at room temperature.
By the way, I really like this beer. My favorite one for a hot day is a cold Coors Banquet. They are the only beers that I keep in the house, except for the box of various craft beers that I couldn't stand to drink.

 

Medium brown, clear, light tan head.
Not much aroma, smells like a macro lager.
Tastes much like a typical American mass produced lager, a little toasted malt, not much else.
Not great but not bad.

 

 

Malty and bready with caramel notes and faint bitterness. Not a particularly strong beer, a little watered-down maybe? Easy to drink though!