Schells Maifest - Blonde Dopplebock
This is one of my absolute favorite spring seasonals. Long lasting white foamy head with a malty aroma. Beginning of taste has an expected malt presence and a little bit of a sour finish. The alcohol is hard to detect.
Since I am lucky enough to live in Minneapolis, I attended a beer tasting put on by a fifth-generation Schell at a local bar. One of the people helping out told us that this beer is Schell's strongest and one of the colleges local to the brewery has an increased rate of vomiting in the spring, though I'm not sure how those statistics are obtained...
The beers we tasted were the Pilsner, Dark, Stout (brand new, off the line that morning), Firebrick, Maifest, the anniversary 1878 Einbecker Dopplebock and their pale ale. I think the only ones worth anything are the Maifest, the Einbecker and the Stout. The dark is apparently only some two row barley and caramel malt to give it color and only lightly hopped. The intent there (I think) is to give an easy to drink, light flavored beer a dark color, so that people who want to try a "dark" beer can go to this one without being too far out of their normal tastes.