Turbodog
Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale - American Regular|
Score
6.36
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Turbodog® is a dark brown ale brewed with pale, caramel, and chocolate malts and Willamette hops. This combination gives Turbodog® its rich body and color and a sweet chocolate, toffee-like flavor. Turbodog® began as a specialty ale, but has gained a huge, loyal following and has become one of our flagship brews. This ale pairs well with most meats and is great served with hamburgers or sausages. It is a good match with smoked fish and can even stand up to wild-game dishes. Turbodog® is also great for marinating and braising meats and cooking such things as cabbage and greens. Colby, Gloucester, Cheddar and blue cheeses go nicely with Turbodog®. It’s perfect with spicy Louisiana jambalaya or Spanish paella. Some even like it paired with chocolate!
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Clear. Rown color, medium beige head. Aroma of light toast, caramel. Taste is bitter chocolate. A bit medicinal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2013
at 15:50
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Blue Smoke, NYC, 24/11/13. Dark mahogony brown with a moderate light tan covering. Nose is a little thin, darl malt, bread doough, sugars, light rasp of fructis. Taste comprises sweet brown bread dough, fruit loaf, sugar. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, dry finale with a touch of bitterness. So so.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Dec 2013
at 04:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
I had this quite a few times years back when I was in Texas, so when I saw it on the shelf today I just had to grab one. Pours a crystal clear dark brown with bodacious ruby highlights and a huge crop of fluffy tan head. Aromas of chocolate and caramel with a hint of earth and toffee. The flavor is a bit fruity with English yeasty esters dominating. Caramel toffee and chocolate maltiness off set with a hint of earthy hop flavor. Medium body with a moderate to high level of carbonation and a sweet slick creamy bubbly mouthfeel. I was worried that my palette may have changed in all these years, but this is actually a pretty good English style ale.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2013
at 14:13
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Quasi scura riflessi ramati sentori maltati tostati cosi in bocca amaro contenuto buone tostature
Tried
on 20 May 2013
at 17:53
10/10
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 13:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
From a 12 oz bottle served in New Awlins. Pours almost black with an off white head. Aroma of cocoa. Flavors of mild chocolate with a distinct hoppy bite. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2013
at 21:51
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Pours black. Decent lacing and big initial head. Low carbonation Some coffee and roast malt, but kind of finishes sour. Underwhelming. Bottle from H + R Liquor in San Juan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2013
at 18:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly hazy dark reddish brown color with a nice 1-2 finger dense khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of caramel, toast, toffee, brown sugar, chocolate, light roast, light nuttiness, herbal, and slight raisin. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark malts. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, chocolate, brown sugar, light nuttiness, roast, herbal, and slight raisin. No bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toast, toffee, chocolate, light nuttiness, and brown sugar on the finish for a short bit. Very nice malt flavor balance that is fairly robust, with good complexity; and zero cloying sweetness present after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied; with a creamy and lightly slick mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with almost zero warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very good brown ale. Nice balance and robustness of malt flavors; and extremely smooth to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2013
at 17:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled at Flanigan’s by Coral Gables, in Miami, on December 1, 2012.Marked 5.6% ABV.Clear dark reddish brown color, huge tan head. Sweet, malty, toffee scent. Fruity, tobacco, cream, berry taste. Smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness. Grainy aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2012
at 07:05
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours clear dark brown with a medium beige head and good lacing. Aroma is roasted malt, caramel, coffee and grass. Taste is roasted malt and molasses with a sweet finish and little bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2012
at 19:37