Fisherman's Navigator (2006-*)
Cape Ann Brewing Company in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Regular|
Score
6.51
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle from Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg. Pours a clear dark red color with a thin head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel, toffee and dark fruits. Taste is raisins, caramel, roasted malts and anise. Medium bodied with a creamy mouthfeel. I like this quite a bit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle. Ruby brown-amber color with a respectable head. Sweet, fresh, and malty aroma. Sweet and smooth, a pretty well-executed Dopplebock, though it lacks some of the fruity/pungent yeast nuances found in some German examples. Creamy, with a balanced bitter edge. Really covers the alcohol well. Full flavored, but completely sessionable. Good stuff, way underrated.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Once Upon a Vine - South on 02/21/2009. Clear deep cherry body with ruby highnights and a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet caramel and fruit aroma. Sweet caramel and light molassas flavor with some bready notes. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12oz bottle-pours a dissipating light tan head and reddish copper color. Aroma is medium/dark malt, husky-toffee, medium fruit, some earthy/spicy hops, some alcohol. Taste is medium/dark malt, drying, husky-toffee, medium fruit, some earthy hops. Thanks jwc215 for sharing this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours bright mahogany into a stem glass. Off-white micro head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface. Raisin and molasses aromas. Light bodied and malty with sweet caramel upfront and a slight bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Draught snifter at Kinsale Irish Pub on 4/21/07
Small, light-tan head rapidly fades to partial cover, leaving little/no lacing. Clarity is medium to medium-high and the color is a dark mahogany brown with some cola tints.
Breadiness is matched by light caramel and moderate fruitiness (berries, raisins, currants) with a definite note of molasses and or brown sugar. A bit washed-out, it’s not exactly leaping out of the snifter, and is further complicated by some sharp alcohol suggestions that drain the malts of the much-needed fatness that the style calls for. But it remains passable, if not very bock-like. Light yeast tartness is present on the finish, but not in as great a quantity as I would expect from the style. Hops are very reserved, only adding light leafiness/earthiness to the finish. Caramel and breadiness linger on...
Medium-dry caramel, some hard toffee and cola notes and a fair amount of dry, slightly acidic breadiness comprise the flavor. Alcohol cuts through the malts on the finish, along with some spiciness akin to black pepper and clove, though this one is unspiced. Just dosent get very complex and the mouthfeel is too hardened by the filtration and overuse of medium malts. Moderate carbonation is not very tight. Cola and berry-like suggestions sit lightly on the end, further exposing the lack of sweet, supple malts. No diacetyl in my glass, thankfully.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at barcade - decent, hazy, unfiltered amber/copper body, with a rather fluffy head - quite earthy and yeasty aroma, with a kind of unusual herbal quality for the style - fairly chewy - some toasty, roasted malt quality, with a dash of spicy hops - some caramel flavor makes way for big time diacetyl flavors - I didn’t find this as off-putting as the other raters (though diacetyl tends not to bother me too much), but I still didn’t find the beer very good.