Twice as Nice
Hi-Wire Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Regular|
Score
6.92
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tnkw01 (4092) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Oh my, this is a wonderful beer. Very dark brown, almost black. Nice head for a dopplebock. Aroma is darkly roasted grains, chocolate with very subtle fruity hints and ever so lightly boozey. Taste was really flavorful with light notes of fruit and nice chocolate.
MrSpooks (5518) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Extremely large doppelbock, too big, really, with an outsized caramel and rich toffee sweetness that eventually collapses on itself. Cocoa, fig, raisin, almond, and anise add complexity--which is good--but the escalating sugary base grows cloy and overwhelming as the pint warms. Finishes with a liquor-ish bitterness and moderate boozy heat. Wants to be an eisbock without the eis. Too much.
cheap (9607) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Same beer as https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/hi-wire-dopplebock/406994/40472/ Strong clean beer aroma. Big and dark large and in charge with a tan head. Thick dark sweet almost cloying syrup from the start. Weehew, big medicinal kick in the brain. Thick strong dark kickin ass brew. Doppel, double dastardly drained, draining, drastic, drawbacky, dreadful, dreary, dripping, drippy, droop, drought, drowning, drunk, drunkard, dubious, dubiously, dud, dull, dullard, dumb, dumbfound, dumping, dunce, dungeon, dungeons, dupe, but not dying!
wombat23 (6046) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at the source. Clear dark amber, light beige head. Malty aroma. Taste is dark fruits, roasted malt, caramel, plum. Nice.
superspak (10160) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 10/31/2017. Pours crystal clear very dark reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crusts, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of chocolate, cocoa, raisin, plum, fig, cherry, date, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crusts, toasted biscuit, and nuttiness; with lighter notes of chocolate, cocoa, raisin, plum, fig, cherry, date, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread dough/crusts, toasted biscuit, chocolate, cocoa, dark fruit, herbal, pepper, roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance; and zero cloying/acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from hop/roast bitterness. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden, a mildly increasing warmth of 10% after the finish. Overall this is an excellent Doppelbock! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the ABV with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Tastes like a Schwazbier/Doppelbock hybrid, but I believe that was the intention. A little more bitter, drying, and roasty than I expected. Extremely rich Vienna/Munich malt complexity; well restrained fruitiness and balancing noble hops. A very enjoyable offering, and great style example.
willisread (9801) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at Craft Brewed. Pours a clear, deep brown with a finger of beige head. Deep chocolate aromas with some faint grassy hops. Smooth, but with good carbonation. Not sweet or cloying. Very nice balance with the alcohol warming, but more hidden than expected. Some fall fruit flavors that linger.
SpringsLicker (4048) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Deep brown, almost black with garnet highlights where strong light passes at the edges under a tall, tan head. The aroma is rich, nutty sweet malt. The flavor is sweet, following the aroma. A big, full bodied Dopplebock.
thegreenrooster (7317) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a near black with a small tan head. Aroma is really not much. Some sugary malts with a hint of dark fruit. Flavor is sweet malt with again a ever so slight dark fruit . Some roast malt and alcohol follow up after the swallow. This was way sweeter than I would like a dopplebock to be. It was ok not great.
Travlr (30174) reviewed Twice as Nice from Hi-Wire Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. Clear deep brown color, almost opaque, beige head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of burnt caramel, cocoa, dark fruit. Taste is sweet, boozy fig, date, caramel. Very tasty.