Serving Type: BottleABV: 6.5 percent
Appearance: Dead Guy Ale is a light shade of amber, but gives off an effervescent orange hue.Atop this brew, there was an off-white head that was thick and frothy. This was the type of head that gets stuck on your nose and upper lip on the first sip. I love that in a beer. There was a ton of bubbles surging towards the top of the glass. I also noticed a lot of thick lacing left inside the glass as I kept drinking more of it.
Smell: I mainly was able to pick up a ton of hop bitterness in the aroma for this beer. There was also a highlight or two of citrus, but I doubt that was from orange or lemon. My guess it was a characteristic of the hop content. I'd prefer a bit more diversity in this section, but this wasn't quite on an IPA level.
Taste: I tasted plenty of honey and sweet malt on the front. There was plenty more malt than honey as we should expect in a German Maibock, but I also like some honey presence.That was followed by a tasty combination of pale wheat, a creaminess and hop notes on the finish. The aftertaste was calm, yet bitter. In my opinion, a great Maibock/Helles Bock has honey sweetness and a lot of sweet malt present. Sometimes the malt can even have a bitter bite to it.
Overall Rating:
When it comes to German styles of beer, I want whatever I have to make me feel like I'm sitting in a beer garden somewhere smelling the fresh hop vines and eating a salty pretzel. I got pretty close when drinking Dead Guy Ale. I missed the malt presence in the aroma. I got too much hops, but the attractiveness and the wonderful taste of this brew was more than enough for me.
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