Winter Spezial
Staatliches Hofbräuhaus München (Hofbräu München) in Munich, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Bock - Doppelbock Winter|
Score
7.17
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A real winter warmer! The rich and spiced flavor with a taste of dark chocolate and dried berries is created by the perfect amount of roasted caramel malt and a well-hidden hop bitterness for a smooth finish. Connoisseur recommendation: Especially enjoyed on a cold winter day with a rich hot pot of meat and vegetables.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
not a lot going on to set this beer apart from others. I'm not sure what makes it a 'winter' beer in Germany, but it's not anything special. Hofbrau dresden
Tried
on 16 Dec 2020
at 11:56
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Brown bottle from JR's. Pours a rather darker maroon brown. Nice creamy tan head. Slight malt nose. Decent co2, strong alky presence. Warming sensation sets in after the first few slugs. Ys, strong alky impact keeps rearing its head up, definitively a bock by character, maybe even a little more. I think l'm getting a little dizzy in the middle. Quite interesting but a little more personality than I care for.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2020
at 21:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Total Wine, McLean. Dark reddish-brown. Sweet malt, some light spice. Dark fruit (raisin, prune type of thing), caramel, and some earth. Slightly sticky. Fairly full bodied. Decent, but a little too sticky, sweet, and boozy for me to want more than 1 in a sitting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2019
at 02:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Good bock. it is a dunkler bock; the image above is notwhat the beer or the bottle now look like not. Medium sweet, some caramel, and lots of malt flavor. --- Beer merged from original tick of Doppelbock / Winter Spezial (2015-) on 18 Jan 2019 at 20:10 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2019
at 17:44
8/10
Nice winter spicy marzen!
Tried
on 10 Feb 2017
at 19:50
7/10
Tried
on 30 Dec 2016
at 17:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a murky brown with a large tan head. Aroma is a decent roasted nut with some molasses sweetness. Flavor is a nice helping of dark fruit and more of the thick molasses type malt. Leaves a nice raison juice on the tongue as this goes down. Pretty flavorful German winter warmer.
Tried
on 19 Apr 2016
at 18:39
7/10
Tried
on 15 Mar 2016
at 20:14
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle: Cloudy, dark brown, with a short, off-white head. Earthy, caramel, nutty aroma. Taste is rich, slightly bitter caramel malt, dried nuts. An herbal/earthy bittering. Tasty. Nice to drink a Winter Festbier that’s not totally consumed with spices for a change.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2016
at 19:49
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Nutty toffee malt and astringent alcohol aroma. Dark amber with small head. Sweet nutty toffee malt and mildly bitter/astringent herbal hay and alcohol flavor. Nice body. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2016
at 21:46