Invader Doppelbock
Valkyrie Brewing Company in Dallas, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Regular|
Score
6.42
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at Old Fashioned. Thick, opaque brown. Thin, oily head. Rich and chocolaty. Very thick and rich body with some dark fruit tones as well. Doesn’t really nail the style. Lots of roasty character. Fairly unique or just oddly executed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a hazy mahogany color, with a sudsy lace - quite a nutty aroma, with some dough, faint diacetyl, fig, raisin - smooth, creamy, medium-bodied - quite nutty, with notes of brown sugar, a lot of raisin, toffee, caramel - finishes with loads of chocolate and a spicy/peppery character, which is a nice twist - aside from the mild diacetyl in the nose, this is a pretty solid brew - quite underrated - maybe they just have poor quality control.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
2004? 12oz bottle from Robertsreality. Shared with OldGrowth on 5/28/2005. Auburn-amber colored body is murky-cloudy with a small white head that recedes rapidly to cover and retained from there. Cereal grains in the nose, dates, plums and, as OldGrowth noted, cherries. No bockyness really. Aroma is rather faint overall. Flavor is bready, with lots of fruits: cherries, candied oranges. Some light chocolate covered cherry notes, more dry/astringent breadiness on end. Medium body, somewhat loose and thin on end. No alcohol noted. Low carbonation. Body/malt sweetness seemed to increase as it warmed, which was good, but it still dosent come off as a doppelbock to me.
JK (8181) reviewed Invader Doppelbock from Valkyrie Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Badgerben called this one right. Standarb bock aroma. Flavor is sweet with a syrup texture. Flavors of cereals. Rather thin. nearly flat, with a dark brown color. I wonder if there was a problem with the seal on the bottle?