Pilot Series: Troppelbock
Alaskan Brewing Company in Juneau, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Regular|
Score
7.32
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle: Dark copper in color with a little more than a finger of creamy beige head. Very inviting aroma… vanilla, oak, caramel, and bananas. I love it! The flavor is rich and sweet, very dessert like. Coconut, vanilla, toffee, chocolate, and caramel. Very light oak, but its there as it warms. A faint pitted fruit presence. Decadent. This is a supreme dessert beer. Brings back memories of Wii golf at the Forrester with Jordan and Wade… that was the Baltic Porter, but much of the same flavor profile here. At $9/bomber I nearly skipped this over… glad I gave in and tried it. A great experience! I can chalk this up as one of the best beers I’ve had in 3-4 years. Wow.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes
The appearance has an amber/brown body with a one finger off white/tan head that dies at a moderate pace to a film coating the top of the body. There is some clearness around the edges of the body.
The smell : holy candied fruits - mainly figs, but sweetly combined in a woody (perhaps a more oaky sense).
The taste is extremely sweet through candied fruits, sugary aftertaste, plain sweet yet somewhat dry finish.
The palate is about a medium, slightly sessionable (interesting as I’m reading the ABV is supposed to 10....hmmm?). Carbonation seems to be spot on.
Overall, this is a dessert beer of a doppelbock, interesting take on the style, pretty sure I’d have it again and hopefully a bit fresher next time as I’m unsure if the alcohol possibly died in this a bit as it really doesn’t feel anywhere close to 10%.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 8/10/2013. Pours slightly hazy ruby red color with a 2 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with some moderate streaming carbonation. Aromas of big raisin, fig, pear, caramel, molasses, toast, biscuit, brown bread, brown sugar, pepper, clove, oak, light vanilla, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with solid balance and complexity of malt, oak, and yeast ester notes; with good strength. Taste of big raisin, prune, fig, pear, caramel, molasses, toast, toffee, chocolate, brown bread, brown sugar, vanilla, oak, pepper, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Lingering notes of dark fruits, caramel, molasses, toast, toffee, chocolate, brown bread, brown sugar, vanilla, oak, light pepper, herbal, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark malt, oak, and yeast ester flavors; with a great malt/fruitiness balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and full bodied; with a very creamy, slick, and slightly syrupy mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is extremely well hidden with only a slight warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice doppelbock style. All around good balance, complexity, and robustness of dark malt and fruity yeast ester flavors with moderate oak presence; and very smooth to sip on for the big ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Rich deep amber and toffee coloured body with a nice ruby glow and a thinnish, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of alcohol, toasted malt, pit fruits, caramel, toffee, figs and a lot of earth - very nice and strong. Full-bodied; Strong toasted malt flavours with tons of oak, peat, vanilla, bourbon and cognac tastes throughout. Aftertaste shows a lot of dry oak, some vanilla, a hint of earth and a good deal of pit fruits, but the oak and bourbon still leave the mouth dry. Overall, a pungent and super strong beer that shows well and has a good level of complexity. Great to sample and well worth bringing back home, even if it is some 5000 miles away! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Bottle Stop Liqour in Valdez, Alaska on 24-May-2013 for US$8.50 sampled at home back across this great land on 19-October-2013, in Washington.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Spec's - Galleria, 10/15/13, Rating #3250, only 750 more to go for 4k
Aroma: The nose is rich and malty, heavy toffee and caramel, booze, and vanilla
Appearance: Pours a clear dark orange-copper color with a frothy off-white head and decent lace
Flavor: The taste is mid-heavy sweet, it has a lot of rich malty flavors, and some booze
Palate: This beer is full bodied, it has a rich, fairly thick feel, a soft carbonation, and some decent heat
Overall Impression: This is a tasty, fairly heavy, and pretty darn sweet beer. There's a lot going on here for sure, and my aroma/flavor descriptions probably only scratch the surface. It is pretty clearly worth trying. It is also not really too drinkable. This is a big, thick, sticky beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at Beveridge. Clear ruby color, big whitenhead, solid lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel toast. Taste is boozy sweet nutella and caramel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to a trade! Pours a clear deep sappy amber with a gray head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has a nice sweet grain, biscuit and toffee note with a bit of fruits and some backing oak and vanilla notes. Flavor starts with biscuit and toffee and has more oak, roasted malts and vanilla in the finish with a touch of dark fruits.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber shared by Marcus. Pours dark orange amber with no head. Aroma is treacle. Med body. Flavor is treacle, malty, lightly fruity. Getting toffee. Heat is noticeable. Oak astringency in the finish. Good!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Memorial Day Deck Beers tasting on 05/27/2013: Pours a clear dark mahogany color with a medium thick off-white head that diminishes slowly. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of roast malt, oak and plum. Full, syrupy body with flavors of earthy malt, figs and oak. The finish is rich and malty with a dark fruit aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Clear dark brown body. Not much head at all. Sweet malt aroma, Slightly fruity. The flavor is very sweet, verging on cloying. The sweetness needs more malt and toasty notes to balance it out.