Liberator Doppelbock
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company in Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.40
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to gn0sis for this one. Bottle looks good, as well as the beer in the glass. Starts strong, malty, deep, a little bit smoky. Fruity notes of cherry that become more intense in the finish. Well balanced, soft-malty, warming aftertaste. Quite drinkable for a doppelbock. Really good!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours bdark brown with a light brown head. Aroma has roasted malts, coffee and a bit of an odd skunk note. Flavor begins full of roasted malts, but the flavor begins more focused on a coffee note with a dark bread and grain undertone.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
This beer is delicious and worth way more than the $1 I paid to get one. Anyway, in the glass this brew looks like chocolate syrup, just foamier. The aroma smacks of malts and coffee. The taste - which is vicious and sweet - is all chocolate and coffee. On the swallow it is not as heavy as you might anticipate, in fact, quite smooth. As I said before: delicious.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours dark brown with creamy khaki head. Aroma is all malt. Caramel, toffee with some raisin and fig. Sweet molasses flavor with caramel and dark fruits. Slight alcohol burn. Medium to full body with moderate carbonation and a stick, syrupy mouthfeel. An excellent doppelbock.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
courtesy of gunhaver. pours copper, with mocha head. Aroma and taste, light mouthfeel, grainy with plenty of good fruits, some sugar, malt with hints of caramel. Found it to be rather light in body for its 8% abv.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Poured dark enough to be opaque, managed a smallish foamy head. I think this is one of the best American doppelbocks I’ve had but in some ways they’ve missed the mark, but only a little. Its very sweet, of course, but almost too sweet. The malt construction is nice, very earthy in the nose, with kisses of chocolate and caramel that become more apparent in the flavor. I could see some more hop bitterness in the finish giving this just the right spicy finish that would balance this out and make it utterly drinkable. As it is, its sweet enough to be more of a slow beer. Nothing wrong with that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to zathrus13. I guess dopplebocks are not my style. Pours with a thin collection of large, light brown bubbles atop a nearly black, dark brown body. Good lacing. Aroma of toffee, caramel, light soy sauce, toasted malts, light bread yeast, and nuts. Taste is strong with astringent caramel (like the sauce you put on flan), with nuts, followed by soy. Creamyish mouthfeel, light bubbles.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Beer # 7500, that’s 3/4 of the way to Eternal Ticking Glory, ladies and gentlemen. I decided to toast this momentous occasion with one of the most well-respected lagers in America today, the Liberator Doppelbock from Thomas Hooker. This was a 2006 bottle and the result was, well, interesting. Thankfully I can say that I’ve had few, if any, beers quite like this particular bottle, which makes it a fitting beer to have on the occasion.
Dark brown colour. Chewy, smokey, plummy aroma shows some oxidation. Deep plums on the palate, again the product of oxidation, but I don’t mind it at all. There’s a light smokiness, some pear, and some burnt sugars. To me, this has developed well, although I’m sure this much oxidation and fruitiness in a doppelbock would turn just as many people off as on. Sweet and tart finish, an eclectic product of age, rendered upon a beer that may not handle such things as well as it should. But it works anyway, and that’s the fun of trying different beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to boboski for opening this brew from one of those cool looking flip top liter bottles. Pours a nice dark brown cup o’ coffee with off white head. Wow! This has an amazing initial mouth watering lip smackin’ aroma with roasty malts, rich molasses, brewing pre hoped wort percolating over the flame and caramel. In time the aroma did subside in intensity but was still very nice. The flavors were roasty to slightly burnt malts, rich molasses, caramel candy, nice chunk of pale maltiness. Then I get a chocolate maltiness and hints of coffee. Very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of Kramer17801. Hazy, orangey brown with a small, rough, off-white head. Aroma of burned caramel. Rather full body with plenty of roasted malt, burned caramel, lots of fruit and a fairly bitter finish - a lot more bitter than a German Doppelbock. 310807