Hunter Bock
Potters Hotel & Brewery (Hunter Beer Co)
- From:
- Potters Hotel & Brewery (Hunter Beer Co)
- Australia
- Style:
- Bock
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.36 | pDev: 9.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 27, 2014
- Added:
- Aug 07, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.31/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.31/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Had on tap at the brewery 09/07/11.
Pours a chocolatey brown colour with nice glint up to the light. Head is beige, I guess, hanging around nicely and pleasantly dense. Decent lace. Looks good.
Not a lot on the nose to be honest. Bit of chocolate grain, some yeasty notes. Some nutty aroma, but I feel like it's a bit overattenuated, with not a lot added late for aroma.
Taste is not a huge deal better. Sweet grain upfront that dissipates to leave a quite mild front palate; develops more flavour on the mid with chocolate grain giving mild cocoa and roasty hints. Late-mid gets a bit sour where one feels that the flavour isn't quite full enough, so it becomes this weak roasty flavour. Finishes well though, with a clean crisp cutoff of the fairly sweet dark flavours, to remind one it's a lager. I've had some unpleasant bocks, and this is not one of them - although this is largely due to the fact that this isn't a very impressive one.
Bit of texture and nice body. Could tone down the carbonation a bit, but it's nice and full.
I feel that, as a bock, this could definitely be bigger and bolder, but as a beer it's OK.
Jul 14, 2011Pours a chocolatey brown colour with nice glint up to the light. Head is beige, I guess, hanging around nicely and pleasantly dense. Decent lace. Looks good.
Not a lot on the nose to be honest. Bit of chocolate grain, some yeasty notes. Some nutty aroma, but I feel like it's a bit overattenuated, with not a lot added late for aroma.
Taste is not a huge deal better. Sweet grain upfront that dissipates to leave a quite mild front palate; develops more flavour on the mid with chocolate grain giving mild cocoa and roasty hints. Late-mid gets a bit sour where one feels that the flavour isn't quite full enough, so it becomes this weak roasty flavour. Finishes well though, with a clean crisp cutoff of the fairly sweet dark flavours, to remind one it's a lager. I've had some unpleasant bocks, and this is not one of them - although this is largely due to the fact that this isn't a very impressive one.
Bit of texture and nice body. Could tone down the carbonation a bit, but it's nice and full.
I feel that, as a bock, this could definitely be bigger and bolder, but as a beer it's OK.
Reviewed by ADZA from Australia
3.2/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.2/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This brew pours a kola beer hue with average carbonation that leaves behind a fast vanishing one finger head and little lacing,the smell is chocolate,oak,tobacco and coffee,it has a light bodied averagely carbonated mouthfeel and has tastes of cherry ripe,dark bitter coffee,tobacco and is finished off with a dark fruity bitterness and overall its pretty average and i can not see it in my forseeable future cheers.
May 28, 2011
Reviewed by mulder1010 from Australia
2.96/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.96/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
750 ML poured into a globe glass
A-- Poured a light cola color and settled a dark cola color. Moderate pour got a very large, fluffy light brown colored head of 3 fingers. Good staying power to the head. Nice head retention to this as well. A few rings of lacing here and there.
S-- Thin and more thin. Some nuttiness to this and some roasted malts but the nose is very weak.
T-- Taste is somewhat better. A lot of toasted nuts, small bit of bread and just a touch of carmel sweetness.
M-- Medium carbonated and lighter feel. Far closer to a dark lager than a bock. A lot of toasted hazelnuts and Carmel in the mouth. A lot of residual sweetness in the finish.
D-- Not really bock but any means. More a dark lager than anything else. Pretty boring really. One of my issues with the beer is the bottle format. Only in 750's. Get really tired of it after a while and want to stop drinking after a glass or two. Becomes a chore in a way. 330 or 500 is almost perfect for this and would help improve the quality of this in a big way.
Mar 28, 2011A-- Poured a light cola color and settled a dark cola color. Moderate pour got a very large, fluffy light brown colored head of 3 fingers. Good staying power to the head. Nice head retention to this as well. A few rings of lacing here and there.
S-- Thin and more thin. Some nuttiness to this and some roasted malts but the nose is very weak.
T-- Taste is somewhat better. A lot of toasted nuts, small bit of bread and just a touch of carmel sweetness.
M-- Medium carbonated and lighter feel. Far closer to a dark lager than a bock. A lot of toasted hazelnuts and Carmel in the mouth. A lot of residual sweetness in the finish.
D-- Not really bock but any means. More a dark lager than anything else. Pretty boring really. One of my issues with the beer is the bottle format. Only in 750's. Get really tired of it after a while and want to stop drinking after a glass or two. Becomes a chore in a way. 330 or 500 is almost perfect for this and would help improve the quality of this in a big way.
Reviewed by dgilks from Australia
3.39/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.39/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Rounded malt aroma with notes of chocolate and toast. It doesn't have the bready melanoidins of lots of other bocks.
Very dark brown colour with a big, fluffy, quick dissipating tan head.
There's a nice sweetness here with a good malt character but again there is lack of the breadiness expected of a bock. TO me this is more of a Schwartzbier. Good but not great.
Medium body with moderate carbonation.
This is a bit boring. It lacks really clear Bock character and what there is is uninspiring.
Aug 22, 2010Very dark brown colour with a big, fluffy, quick dissipating tan head.
There's a nice sweetness here with a good malt character but again there is lack of the breadiness expected of a bock. TO me this is more of a Schwartzbier. Good but not great.
Medium body with moderate carbonation.
This is a bit boring. It lacks really clear Bock character and what there is is uninspiring.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.51/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.51/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Tried at Paddy's Brewers Market Festival 09.
Pours a deep russet copper, with a filmy, but sticky head of off-white lace. Lacing is very good, sliding in great gobs around the edge of the glass. Excellent clarity. Looks very good indeed.
Some light roasted grain notes on the nose. A bit weak overall, some sweetness, but little else.
Taste is much better. A good burst of roasted malt, verging on slightly smoky, with a drying bitterness at the back. Tastes darker than it looks. Finish is slightly phenolic, with a vaguely acetone character, but it's forgiveable. Mouthfeel is smooth, but a little thin.
A pretty decent little brew. Plenty of roasty characters, and a cleansing bitterness to go along with it. Overall, it's a drinkable drop.
Oct 12, 2009Pours a deep russet copper, with a filmy, but sticky head of off-white lace. Lacing is very good, sliding in great gobs around the edge of the glass. Excellent clarity. Looks very good indeed.
Some light roasted grain notes on the nose. A bit weak overall, some sweetness, but little else.
Taste is much better. A good burst of roasted malt, verging on slightly smoky, with a drying bitterness at the back. Tastes darker than it looks. Finish is slightly phenolic, with a vaguely acetone character, but it's forgiveable. Mouthfeel is smooth, but a little thin.
A pretty decent little brew. Plenty of roasty characters, and a cleansing bitterness to go along with it. Overall, it's a drinkable drop.
Reviewed by vancurly from Australia
2.99/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.99/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Beige head, good lace & bubbles.
Colour of dark brown, with deep cherry edges.
Little nose...some dark malt notes, but not much.
Deep, roasty complex flavour, some banana-like esters. Cold coffee.
Medium bitterness, touch cloying, reasonable balance. Would prefer it served warmer.
Aug 07, 2006Colour of dark brown, with deep cherry edges.
Little nose...some dark malt notes, but not much.
Deep, roasty complex flavour, some banana-like esters. Cold coffee.
Medium bitterness, touch cloying, reasonable balance. Would prefer it served warmer.
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