Michelob AmberBock

A specialty beer with a rich, roasted taste. [Name is in CamelCase]

An American bock-style lager brewed with three unique malts including roasted and caramel and specialty malts. This dark mahogany lager has a rich, nutty aroma with a gentle hint of caramel malt sweetness. This American-style bock has a deep malty body that pours with a tall head.

2.4

1380 reviews

St. Louis, United States

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2.5 Bue à la bouteille très fraîche. Pa0sse bien mais manque de caractère et de goût.

2.7 Draught at the biergarten in Grant's Farm. Copper and clear. Solid malt and not too much off flavor here. Solid for a free beer.

2.3 A bock in name only this is more like a premium American lager with a dose of caramel malt. Pours a clear brown with a fleeting head and active carbonation. No aroma that I can detect. A hint of malt sweetness and a mild clean finish are the highlights. Not horrible.

3.9 Kinda dark beer but I would say a really light dark beer. Fresh nice taste. Not amazing but refreshing and enjoyable.. Feels rapidly heavy (alcohol)

2.4 Here is one that I missed in my reviews. This is pretty much the standard "in between" beer that I see places serve in between the swill and premium. I find the mouthfeel a little rusty/rough with this beer, and will choose Bass or Beck's Dark over Amber Bock if given the choice. I usually find the Michelob family of beers drinkable though, this one being about borderline. A lot better than Bud though IMO.

2.8 mild caramel malty aroma, mildly nutty. dark amber in color. medium sweet taste with a light bitterness. light and watery mouthfeel, medium bodied overall.

2.9 One of the first beers I remember liking as it has a malty caramel flavor not found in the light beer that I had tried before this. I still will order this if there is nothing better on tap but I now find it to be more ok than good.

4.2 Una cerveza oscura de muy buen aroma y excelente dejo en el paladar. Una buena opción cuando no encuentras la oscura de tu preferencia.

3.5 12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 8/21/2017. Pours crystal clear reddish copper/brown color with a 1 finger fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, pepper, and herbal/grassy/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with dark/bready/roasted malts and mild earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Touch of yeast fruitiness in the aromas, but not overwhelming. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with light notes of nuttiness, roast, pepper, and herbal/grassy/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal/grassy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, roast, and herbal/grassy/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good big. Nice complexity and robustness of dark/bready/roasted malts and mild earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Nicely clean on lager flavors, with minimal fruity/yeasty notes present. Slightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is good. A bit thin, but not watery. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.2%. Overall this is a good bock. All around good complexity and robustness of dark/bready/roasted malts and mild earthy hop flavors; very smooth, clean, and easy to drink with the very mildly bitter finish. Nicely flavorful with clean malts and just enough hop presence to balance sweetness. A nicely enjoyable offering, and good style example.

2.9 Hazy, dirty dark brown beer with very small head. Aroma has bread and cyrup with sweet malts. Both appearance and aroma are very far from traditional trappist beers. Taste has cyrup, sweet malts, bread and dark fruits. Alcohol warms even if doesn't taste. Medium body, low carbonation. Weird, a combination of German doppelbock, British ale and Finnish "kotikalja/sahti".

2.4 Pours dark brown, near black in colour, with slight reddish tones. Lively sparkling with a toffeebrown coloured foam. Aroma is sweet, dried fruits, some nuttylike flavour, also quite bit alcohol pushing through. Very sweet, oily texture, dark dried plums is the main thing I notice before alcohol starts to dominate. Quite an unpleasant finish.

2.2 Clear, amber colored, medium frothy off white head. Aroma is malty, caramel, some herbal notes. Taste is medium sweet malt, caramel and caramel coloring, syrupy, medium- bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, oily. (bottle)

2.5 Thanks Ivan! Dark amber body with a clear off white head. Well, it was time for me to try this, well, erm, classic? Intensive fruity, malty, caramelly aroma. Strange really, almost making one think of yeast going wild with esters. Sweet, flat taste, bubblegum and caramel, banana, candyish. Tastes like banana candy really in a way. Yeah, very much revolutionary compared to, say, Bud, but still far from a great beer.

1.0 surprisingly good beer from AB actually had some flavor, a rare thing indeed from gigantinormous INBEV. but, they use rice and GMO, not actual ingredients..... strike 3.

2.6 Looks great in a glass as it has a great color. But that's where it ends, not malty and has a neutral smell. Makes me thing they use food coloring not malt to color it.

2.9 Its a good, cheap dark beer. Definitely not a ton of flavor, but it is what it is for the price.

4.0 Overall a good beer. However this beer may not be for everyone-- beer is refreshing, light bodied, not dry at all, and leaves a clean aftertaste. Beer smells faintly like roasted nuts, and looks good in a glass. This beer is certainly unique-- a light feeling dark beer, so dark beer purists may not enjoy this, but then again maybe it is the perfect dark beer for a niche group-- a light refreshing dark beer that can be drank anytime, anywhere.

4.3 This has become my favorite amber beer, although I do sometimes switch to Dos Equis Amber for a change of taste.

2.9 Nice colour, mild flavour, easy on the palate with no after taste. I would drink this beer again.

1.9 Leftover bottle that a guest brought to our party, so I figured I'd try it. Free beer! Unfortunately, with this beer, you get what you pay for it. Pretty aqueous palate with a slight hint of acorns, but it's very watered down. Kinda like flavored water. Below average.

4.1 Good smooth beer, enjoy it in the fall and winter. Really enjoy it on tap any time of year.

1.6 Thin, but a little more malty heft than the MBC adjunct lager. There you have it.

3.2 12 ounce bottle at home from my brother in law. Smell the malt and smells really nice. Light brown in color. Taste the malt Smooth. Kind of thin. Overall very drinkable and taste pretty good. This would be good any time of year.

3.5 From old tasting notes. Deep Amber orange color. Fluffy white head. Light sweet grainy malt nose. Soft, sweet malt flavor. Light bodied. Bittersweet hop finish hints at licorice.

2.9 pours a clear dark copper with a smallish tan head that quickly disappears. light caramel malt aroma. Sweetish caramel malt taste. Sweetish linger. Not bad.

2.9 A specialty beer with a rich, roasted taste. [Name is in CamelCase] An American bock-style lager brewed with three unique malts including roasted and caramel and specialty malts. This dark mahogany lager has a rich, nutty aroma with a gentle hint of caramel malt sweetness. This American-style bock has a deep malty body that pours with a tall head.

2.5 Bottle pours a clear brownish amber with a thin off-white head, absent of any lacing whatsoever. Smells like rust and malt. Flavor is an improvement over the aroma with sweet malt flavor and other subtle tastes. Aftertaste is sweet malt. Overall, a little too bland, a little too sweet, but certainly not awful.

3.1 Draft. Pours clear copper brown with a fizzy beige head. Tastes like dried fruits, toasted malt, some dough, and some corn. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like toasted malt and dried fruits.

2.6 Originally rated on 9/16/08. A step above beer from the likes of bud, coors ect. Nice deep amber body. Caramel malt flavors with a slight bitterness.A decent enough brew, I find this one to be very similar to Ziegen bock.

3.0 DATE: July 8, 2016... OCCASION: watching BattleBots on a Friday night with the fam... GLASSWARE: Michelob pokal... pours a dark amber, almost mahogany body that is nonetheless translucent, framing out a healthy amount of effervescence... the creamy white head sits ably, with variable bubbles... surprisingly robust plum and malt, though sugars suggest a macro birth... a soft, drinkably swift rush is provided, much like a flat soda... the taste is heavy in toasted malts, with plum, apple, and enough caramel to provide a true sweetness... some molasses as well... I find this beer to be above meager expectations, with its flavor profile sweet and sessionable, as a compliment to foods or as a succession of brews...