the beers of FUTENMA part 8: Monchshof Vollmundiges Bockbier

I'm going to come out and say it, I love Bock beers, so I'm exited to try this one. Naturally the bottle is adorned with a goat, sort of a German joke. Originally the style was from the town of Einbeck, but when it was brought to Munich they pronounced it ein bock, which is a male goat (a buck).

So, cracking it open the top makes a forced pop. It has that wonderful coffee and molases nose, I love that about bock, just a beautifully aromatic beer. Time to taste. When you sip it you get coffee and molases flavor with dark chocolate hints with a heavy lager texture. If you roll it around for a minute, it turns creamy in flavor and texture and the dark chocolate notes come out more. Lets get out our super traditional Orion mug and see how it heads.

The head is beutifull, the color is a deep amber, and the taste is fantastic

I know I say I'm not much for lagers, but I'm talking about regular lagers, the lager that don't strive to be anything. Basically they are the potheads you grew up with of the beer world. They could be so much more (like a bock) but they don't apply themselves. But then again, they never really wanted anything in the first place. Maybe I'm too hard on regular lagers, some of them are pretty good, like Yuengling for instance.Yuengling isn't the best beer out there but for a regular lager, it's pretty good, a beer anybody  can enjoy. But it's still no bock. Bock, in all its forms, is the best of what lager has to offer, and it's good.

This beer makes me happy, it's got the 7% (6.9 really) content, which I think is the perfect amount. Well, really 7.5% is the perfect amount to me, but I like to talk up the lady I'm with.

You know, bock beer is one of the reasons I could never be an atheist, things like bock, and the wonderful people that make it, don't just happen.