Breckenridge Pandoras Bock
Desire coupled with curiosity can drive you to do many foolish things. Fortunately, opening a bottle of our Pandora’s Bock is not one of them. Once it is released, a wealth of flavor and complexity will spill out into the world. With a traditional bock flavor profile and a hint of hoppy goodness, there’s a reason it’s spoken about in mythical terms.
2.9
292 reviews
Littleton, United States
Community reviews
Muddy amber pour. Fruity, floral taste. Lighter than expected. Not good. Ugh.
Pours deep amber with a thin, fizzy head. Aroma is sweet and fruity, taste is a bit darker with a tart finish.
Breckenridge Pandora’s Bock has a medium, cream-colored head and a semi-clear, copper appearance, with lots of streaming bubbles (etched glass) and some splotchy lacing left behind. The aroma is of sweet, brown bread, and the flavor is of that, plus some bread crust, a dash of bitterness, and a fruity undertaste. This beer, at 7.5% alcohol, takes on a double bock aspect as one drinks it down. Mouthfeel is light to medium, and Breckenridge Pandora’s Bock finishes mostly dry, sweet, malty, and drinkable. One just does not pick up the alcohol with this. Overall, it’s really nice, and I rate it as being very fine. RJT
Flat pour, mahogany rather simple bock, bready malt with light bitterness. If Pandora’s Bock was a Malt Liquor like it says on the side of the label I may have enjoyed it more.
This was one, if not the best bock I’ve had. Even my non beer drinking fiance liked it. I plan on making this a regular.
This poured a darker amber color with an off white head. Aroma was of herbal hops, light nuts and caramel. Flavor was sweet, mild dark fruits and toasted bread and caramel. Meh.
Tap at Smoke & Barrel. Pours a clear amber. Good off white head. Odd sticky red nose, odd twig and berries combo like juniper and spruce. Taste is simply not good. So dry and bland with huge dustiness. Extreme medicinal bitterness and tree bark.
On tap. Pours a hazy copper color with a small amount of off white head. Aromas of caramel, toastiness, some grains, and a little earthy. Tastes of toasted grains, caramel, tart grape, and citrus.
Bottle. Pours a mostly clear reddish amber color with a small white head on it. Nose has some caramel in there and a slightly sweet taste. Feels light.
Mild aroma of sweet malt...red, brown, in color with tan head. Caramel is over powering....slightly masking sweet malt...but flavor covers palate nicely. Finsihes with a mild bitter bite. A decebt beer but was esxpecting a bit more complexity.
Bottle. Moderate to heavy nutty and caramel aromas for the malt. light to moderate orange juice for the hops, dough for the yeast, with toffee and light brown sugar in the background. Head is small, fizzy/frothy, off-white with no lacing and is fully diminishing. Color is clear medium brown. Flavor starts moderately sweet and slightly acidic, then finishes lightly sweet and bitter. Palate is medium, slick with a soft to lively carbonation. Nice and bold up front, smooth in the finish, not sure why such a low average as a Dunkler Bock.
April 2012. From bottle. Pours amber with a white head. Some caramel aromas blended with the yeast and malts. An OK beer, but easy to forget.
A great standard, with caramel malts. Nuts a little hops. It's nice and carbonated without losing flavor
Bottle. Pours clear tawny with a small, fizzy light tan head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is caramel, cookie, and toast malt with nutty notes, light spicy and earthy hops with a clean lager character. Flavor is malt dominant with light spicy and earthy hops, malt-derived dried fruits, light bitterness and a sweet finish. Medium body and carbonation with light alcohol warmth, no astringency or creaminess.
Bottled. Flattish brown pour. Malty grainy sweetness. Clean finish. OK bit could uae more moxie
Deep clear amber color with a short lived beige head. Sweet malty nose with some spice notes. Lots of caramel sweetness, malt powder, light toast, a hint of apple fruitiness and a faint green hop in the finish. Sweet, simple bock beer.
Light aroma of malt. Taste is malty, but also has nice caramel and bready tastes. Well balanced for a bock and has a nice palate.
Not a bad bock. Pours orange with a thin head that fizzes out quickly. Aroma of caramel, malts, dark fruit, raisins, slightly metallic. Flavor is similar. It starts out promising; finish is a little flat.
12 oz bottle. Brownish amber color. Smell is dark malt, caramel, and dark fruits. Pungent, but pleasant. The body is thin. Flavor is metallic, fruity, caramel, low bitterness, slight sourness. Not too sweet but not bursting with flavor.
12 oz. bottle purchased @ The Beer Store, Nashua, NH. Color was a deep brown with red highlights when held to the light. Nose is malt sweetness. Ordinary. One main flavor is caramel malt. The body is light with a thin, watery texture and a bland finish. This brewery needs to step this brew up. Really plain.
The color of this beer is deep reddish brown with a small head, and the aroma is yeasty and of roasted malts. The taste is quite sour, slightly umami, and slightly salty; the palate combines a medium body, thin texture, soft carbonation, and an abrupt finish.
Draft at Surf Taco. Poured an ugly flat mud brown with a tiny off white head. Aroma was old chocolate, some raisin bread dough and bad caramel. Medium body with soft carbonation and a sweet finish. Flavor is much better then the aroma with a big caramel/molasses up front flavor that fades into raisin and slight nuts. Not great but better than it’s rating.
My rating appears to be much higher than my peers. I found this to be a quite enjoyable bock. Very nice dark amber with a thin head. The aroma is sweet fruit with some bread and a hint of wood. The wood comes through in the taste along with some caramel and more bread. The finish is lingering.
Orange with bin white head; slight malty aroma; feels light and tastes the same with some sweetness; finishes lightly sweet
Great smell. Reddish orange.. White head. Great beginning taste.. Long partially bitter after taste. Sort of grows on you as you keep drinking.
Draft at Magerks. Malty flavor and aftertaste. Clear medium brown. Smooth, low carbonation. Not much character.
Tap. Pours dark amber with thin, creamy beige head; decent retention and good lacing. Aroma is caramel and cookie malts, figs, raisins, light floral hops, and some leather. Flavor is sweet malt dominate with some dark fruit esters, light floral hops, and sweetbread; dry finish and somewhat bland. Medium body and low carbonation.
Draft to imperial pint. Looks solid; a transparent reddish-brown with fluffy off-white head. Smells solid; sweet malt and hops (in that order). Tastes like it smells with an average mouthfeel. A decent example of the style.
Bottle. Pours a mostly clear red-orange with a half finger of coarse off-white head. Settles quickly with minimal lacing. Aroma is malty, caramel, sweet. Flavor is sweet, nutty, and malty up front. Fades into mild fruity tones, apple. Finishes mildly bitter malty, oats. Moderate carbonation, light body, and slightly watery texture. A pretty decent beer, could use more body.
Poured from a 12 ounce bottle. Pours a Ruby red with a beige head of foam. Aroma is caramel, sugary sweetness, and a hint at an earthy hop profile. Very subdued hop profile. Taste is malt forward with a nice earthy sweetness. Not as bad as the ratings indicate.