7/10
Tried
on 27 Jul 2013
at 21:53
6/10
Tried
on 25 Jul 2013
at 20:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle pours mahogany with thin light colored mocha head. The aroma offers up brown sugar covered prunes and blueberries mixing with some earthiness and just a hint of molasses. The taste is nice with mild dark roasted malts rolling quickly into toffee, dark toasted bread, sweet ripe plums and cherries. This comes together very nicely as I love the play between the sweet dark fruity esters, mild roasted maltiness and the kettle caramelization toffee like notes. Dandy Dobbel Bock in my book.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 06:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours clear amber with copper edges and short lived tan head of loose foam. The light aroma is a mix of caramel, faint mineral notes and even fainter plum and cherry esteriness. The taste isn’t overly sweet, which I like. It offers up a touch of roasted malts, sweet malts and maybe a sweet biscuit note before thin layers of ripe plum, cherry and a slight mineral note come to the surface midway and into the finish. Pretty nice with a tasty balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2012
at 06:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz bottle pours deep clear copper with thin near white head. The aroma offers up some sweet caramel malts, a nice biscuit maltiness heading toward sort of grainy bread as well as Pilsener like malt sweetness. The taste has a sweet and bready and somewhat caramel maltiness. In between the malts is a slight dark fruity esters sweetness and some lagery yeastiness. Nice, there’s enough going on here to keep it from getting too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2012
at 22:52
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at The Davis Beer Shoppe. Note: tap guy opined that he didn’t like earlier version all that much, but this was an improvement. Pours dirty dishwater amber with a 3 finger creamy white head. Lightly sour aroma - perhaps with a bit of citrus. Almost med body. Flavor starts sour hefe - picks up a bit more citrus. Hefe aspect disappears. Not super sour - but surely fits the style. Finish retains some sour. Quite quaffable.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Aug 2012
at 16:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle pours deep gold with weak white head. The aroma offers up smooth cloves, a bit of banana and earthy grains. The taste has pretty bold cloves and sugary sweet maltiness rolling into some banana and then some vague, maybe noble hoppiness. Decent enough Hefe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2012
at 19:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355ml bottle. Slightly cloudy amber colour with small to average, frothy, moderately lacing, off-white head. Intense caramel malty aroma, bread and biscuit notes. Taste is caramel malty with some hay and a minimal spicy touch. Lively carbonation brings freshness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2012
at 13:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the "brewpub". Pours dark brown with a transient creamy tan head. Aroma is mild dark malt. Near med body. Flavor is not quite smooth burnt malt, a little chocolate. A bit chalky/ashy. Finishes quite dry with chocolate notes over burnt malt, but a little peat (that comes and goes) is sneaking in.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jul 2012
at 19:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz bottle pours crystal clear deep gold with thin near white head. The mild aroma offers up floral to spicy hops with mild sweet Pilsner like maltiness and a vague sort of earthiness in the background. The taste is pleasingly not overly sweet or overly floral. That works for me. I get sort of spicy to earthy to floral hop bitterness rimmed with some hop flavor and thin rings of sweet malts. The noble hop bitterness increases some into the finish. Alright. Another tasty lager from Sudwerk.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2012
at 07:14