Wolfgang
Great Divide Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Regular|
Score
6.93
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Originally called "liquid bread," the Dopplebock style guided monks through periods of penitent fasting. Wolfgang has heavenly notes of caramel, dark fruit, and toffee balanced by a subtle hop character. While its revered history evokes and appreciation of austerity and sacrifice, this Dopplebock is a rich luxury - no repentance required.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 3 oz taster at the brewery in Denver. Pours a clear deep amber with an ecru head. Malty aroma. Flavors of toffee and roasted nuts. Smooth mellow finish.
Tried
on 02 Aug 2013
at 14:42
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
22oz bomber pours with a mahogany colored body that supports a decent enough looking dark tan head. The aroma offers up light amounts of sweet malts, caramel malts, sweet ripe cherries and a bit of toffee drizzled toasted bread. The taste is similar with sweet malts, some caramel malts and then a modest degree of sweet cherry juice. To midway and into the finish it stays pretty consistent with only a murmur of brown sugar and faint toasted bread.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2013
at 22:26
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-whit ehead. Has a fruity malty caramel dark fruit aroma. Sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit flavor. Has a sweetish malty caramel and dark fruit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2013
at 07:57
7/10
Tried
on 02 Apr 2013
at 06:29
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 6/5/2012. Pours fairly crystal clear deep mahogany color with a nice 1-2 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big caramel, raisin, prune, molasses, toast, toffee, chocolate, dark bread, biscuit, nuttiness, and roasted earthiness. Fantastic aromas with great complexity and balance of dark malty flavors with well balanced fruitiness. Taste of caramel, raisin, prune, molasses, toast, toffee, dark bread, chocolate, biscuit, nuttiness, and light roasted earthiness. Lingering notes of caramel, dark fruit, molasses, toast, toffee, dark bread, biscuit, nuttiness, and light earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice flavor balance and complexity of dark malty flavors with moderate fruitiness; and zero cloying sweetness present after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a creamy, slick, and slightly syrupy mouthfeel that is very nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a highly excellent doppelbock! Great balance and complexity of malt flavors with moderate fruitiness; and extremely smooth to sip on. A highly enjoyable offering; one of the better examples I have had in the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2013
at 20:25
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bomber thanks to big-D. Pours a deep copper color with a medium white head. A dusty caramel and fig nose. The flavor is really sweet, somewhat thin at times, caramel, dusty malts, sugar coated figs and prune. OK.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2013
at 10:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle. From Julio’s liquors. Bottled on Jun 25, 2012. Flavor is biscuit malts, grain, raisins, light burnt toast. Flavor profile is toasty bread, dried dark fruit and prunes. Vienna malt has a strong presence. Slight hop in the finish. Overall, decent but nowhere near the best in style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2013
at 00:38
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap at Great Divide - clear light amber - nose is melanoidin, caramelized sugars, a light metallic/copper note - fairly creamy in the mouth - flavor is sweet burnt sugars, moderate esters, moderate malt richness - however, an undercurrent of DMS rides throughout - the finish washes it out with bitterness, spice and alcohol - lagers don’t seem to be their thing.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Dec 2012
at 13:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a deep dark reddish brown color with a smallish off white head that dissipates quickly to a smattering of bubbles on top. The aroma is sweet with burnt sugars and light sweet dark fruits along with a bit of toffee that seems a bit out of place. Faint floral hop aroma provides little balance to the malty sweetness. The flavor is sweet with lots of caramel and brown sugar flavors and a bit of burnt sugar sweetness. Light prune flavor along with a weak coffee type melanoid thing going on. Medium body with a light level of carbonation and a sweet crisp mouthfeel. I find that so many American breweries try to replicate the dopplebock style and can’t seem to pull it off. This is a fine beer, but compared to some of the hallmarks of the style it just doesn’t compare. The smooth melanoid and rich dark dried fruits are lacking in this example.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Nov 2012
at 21:26
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle marked July 3, 2012. Pours with a clear bronze hued body with red highlights and a medium tan head that lasts. Aromas are nutty, soil, chocolate, anise, marzipan, leather, vanilla. A decent amount of ester like notes for a lager. Flavors are nutty, vegital, marzipan, caramel, DMS, ansie and toffee. Medium bitter, clean. Lacking traditional melanoidins. Raisiny, medium carbonation, slightly warming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2012
at 14:32