Maximator

330 mL bottle. Dark, with a small, tan head. Maple syrup, peat, black cherries, and milk chocolate. Very sweet up front, with a finish that is a little sour and bitter, but rather pleasantly so. Medium to heavy body, sticky, oily, and a little acidic. Overall, this is a very nice beer, but the palate is a little thin and the flavor could be smoother. Still, a very good beer, worth tasting.

Clear dark copper color with large head. Aroma has caramel, some fruits and malts. Same on the flavor.

330 ml bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours crystal clear reddish copper color with a nice 2 finger light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Slight spotty lacing on the glass. Aromas of big toast, caramel, biscuit, molasses, toffee, nuttiness, raisin, and light herbal spiciness. Very nice and well balanced aromas with good strength; very pleasant. Taste of caramel, molasses, toast, biscuit, nuttiness, raisin, light pepper, and light herbal spiciness. Fairly dry on the finish; with light lingering notes of caramel, molasses, biscuit, toast, raisin, and light herbal spiciness on the finish. Nice balance of flavors with good complexity and no cloying sweetness. Medium carbonation and body; with a nice creamy and slightly slick mouthfeel. Alcohol is very well hidden with pretty much no warming noticed at all after the finish. Overall this is a very nice doppelbock. Good flavor balance, robustness, and complexity; and very smooth to sip on. Very enjoyable offering.

500ml bottle

Pours reddish brown with a small bubbly head. Aroma of bready malts, caramel and spices. Taste is quite malty with notes of bread, caramel, fruits and spices. Finish is malty with a smooth mouthfeel. Nice, quite tasty dobbelbock.

50 cl bottle @ lusikka, BBE 05/2012
Aroma is rather malty with some chocolate and hints of coffee. Flavour is also malty with chocolate, some berries, hints of coffee and solvent. Decent.

Bottle from mein-biershop.de. Red brown color with medium beige head. Aroma of molasses, caramel,earthy notes. Taste, plums, molasses, roasted malt, burned sugar. Alcohol is well hidden. Bittersweet finish. Good.

This is a beer I’ve wanted to try for a number of years but never found on my travels: I discovered it in ‘Aufsturz’, Berlin: it isn’t on their normal beer menu but I spied a small selection of bottles on one of the bar tops and decided to investigate the laid out presentation, this was one of the brews on offer. 500ml Bottle: dark ruby red body with a thin off-white head, the beer was clear and clean looking. The smells were of malty molasses, caramel aromas that indicated the beer was going to be a very sweet Doppelbock indeed. The smells didn’t lie, this is sweet and malty (in that order): almost sticky in consistency and mouthfeel. I like the sweeter, maltier brews out there, but this tested my resolve: I really enjoyed the first half of the tasting, but as the beer warmed in the glass my pleasure began to recede somewhat. A smaller bottle would have been fine: mental note to myself, only have 330ml bottles of unknown Doppelbocks in future!

Bottle. Dark amber with medium tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, fruti and nutty. Flavour is malt, sweet, sugar, caramel, toffee, dark fruit,

Clear reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit and nutty. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish. Oily. 060312

RBESG Sheffield 2009 Grand Tasting @ the Harlequin.Red brown color with big off-white head.Sweet malt aroam with caramel notes. Malty taste of ryebread, caramel, rather warming leads to a slight bitter finish.