Doppelgänger
Temporal Artisan Ales in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Slow Hand Beer Co.Brewed at/by: Slow Hand Beer Co.
Bock - Doppelbock Regular
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Score
7.31
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Doppelgänger is a strong, rich, and very malty Bavarian-style Doppelbock. In a slightly non-traditional (though very Temporal) fashin, the beer was conditioned on American oak to impart notes of vanilla, wood, and mild spice. The wood influence provides flavours that perfectly complement the Munich malt base, which brings ample notes of toasted malts, bread, and toffee. The lager wizards at Slow Hand have shared their dark secrets, which led us to utilize a cool ferment and lengthy conditioning period to give the beer a crisp lager finish.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
473 ml can. Pours a reddish brown with full bubbly head. Aromas of bread crusts, dusty caramel, and dried fruit. Flavors follow same with more pronounced bread crust, bready malts and minerals. Good.
Tried
from Can
at
Threefold
on 02 Mar 2026
at 23:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Good malt, dark colour. A bit of toffee, soft caramel. Solid stuff. Medium bitterness, well balanced.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2025
at 17:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
473ml can. Pours a clear mahogany with a medium, foamy, short lived, beige head that laces. Sweet aroma of toasted bready malt, caramel, raisin and oak. Sweet flavour of toasted bready malt, caramel, raisin, prune, vanilla, oak, light alcohol and spicy hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Malt forward and delicious.
Tried
from Can
from
Andrew Hilton Wine and Spirits
on 28 Jan 2025
at 05:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473mL can. Pours clear, dark mahagony with fast-fading head. Sweet toffee and brown bread malts, toasted nuts, dates, and dried dark berries on the nose. Flavour has a bready malt base, dry toffee, dried berries giving a touch of tannic astringency. The palate is full-bodied with a smoothness I want to attribute to the oak. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
at
Slow Hand Beer Co.
on 13 Jan 2025
at 20:22
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Beautiful mahogany colour, with amber-red lights; large tan head. Aroma of malt and caramel, with notes of leather and dark fruits, then alcohol when getting warmer (7.5). Decent body strength, it's lean, with light residual sweetness; caramel flavour, feeling of long boil, but there's more caramel than malt depth (some German Doppelbocks have better malt depth), and so in the final it gets weaker, and showing more evident dark caramel and burnt sugar character.
Overall, it's very clean and pleasant.
Beautiful mahogany colour, with amber-red lights; large tan head. Aroma of malt and caramel, with notes of leather and dark fruits, then alcohol when getting warmer (7.5). Decent body strength, it's lean, with light residual sweetness; caramel flavour, feeling of long boil, but there's more caramel than malt depth (some German Doppelbocks have better malt depth), and so in the final it gets weaker, and showing more evident dark caramel and burnt sugar character.
Overall, it's very clean and pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2024
at 10:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
473mL can, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma brings out bready malt, some dark dried fruits, toasted nuts, and a hint of oak. Flavour is dry, malty and somewhat boozy, with plenty of dry oak, bready malt, a hint of dried dark fruits, and light toasted nuttiness. The oak works nicely to dry this out and the malt backbone is exactly right for the style. Very good.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2024
at 09:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz @ Ryan's (thx for the beer, man!) shared with Peter. Appearance: clear dark copper with a beige head. Aroma: malty, some caramel, a bit of sweetness. Taste: along the same lines, some bitterness, good caramel, balanced sweetness. Overall: pleasant.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2024
at 05:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from 473mL can. Clear dark chestnut brown with small beige head. Toffee malt, touch of toasted malt, underlying oak in the background.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2024
at 05:14