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Dock Street Illuminator
Dock Street South
- From:
- Dock Street South
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Doppelbock
- ABV:
- 7.8%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 11.48%
- Reviews:
- 38
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 22, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 27, 2007
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
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Rated by crazyspicychef from Pennsylvania
5/5 rDev +36.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +36.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Please brew this beer again!
This was the best Dock Street beer ever made, and a darn good Bock as well.
We had great times together.
Oct 22, 2020This was the best Dock Street beer ever made, and a darn good Bock as well.
We had great times together.
Reviewed by portia99 from Massachusetts
3.86/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12oz bottle generously provided by hoppymcgee. Going back to my college days the Dock Street Bock was one of the beers that really got me into craft beers...not sure if this is the exact recipe, but fun to go back to one of my early favorites after many years. Poured into a Stone Old Guardian glass.
A - Pours a deep, chocolately brown that is mostly opaque in the glass. Two thick fingers of a densely bubbled foamy head of a khacki color. Head shows excellent staying power and hangs around throughout the duration of the bottle. Sparse lacing left behind.
S - Lots of malt with caramel, chocolately malt, mild roastiness, smooth earthy and grassy hop aromas.
T - Umm, intensely flavored with lots of thick and chewy malt, caramel, toffee, maltose sugary, touch of roastiness, mildly boozy, faint astringency, low level hop bitterness.
M - Super thick and full bodied, almost syrupy in feel. Mid-level carbonation - a bit foamy and mouth filling further enhancing the body of this beer. Multiple layers of maltiness, but never too sweet - good balance with hops just kicking in enough to offset this malt heavy recipe.
O - Overall...well, difficult to compare to the beer I first had about 20yrs ago, but no disappointment here at all. Nice, solid example of the doppelbock style - decent complexity, smooth drinking for the style...enjoyable beer to start the night with. I will definitely not wait another 20yrs to go back to this one again.
May 11, 2013A - Pours a deep, chocolately brown that is mostly opaque in the glass. Two thick fingers of a densely bubbled foamy head of a khacki color. Head shows excellent staying power and hangs around throughout the duration of the bottle. Sparse lacing left behind.
S - Lots of malt with caramel, chocolately malt, mild roastiness, smooth earthy and grassy hop aromas.
T - Umm, intensely flavored with lots of thick and chewy malt, caramel, toffee, maltose sugary, touch of roastiness, mildly boozy, faint astringency, low level hop bitterness.
M - Super thick and full bodied, almost syrupy in feel. Mid-level carbonation - a bit foamy and mouth filling further enhancing the body of this beer. Multiple layers of maltiness, but never too sweet - good balance with hops just kicking in enough to offset this malt heavy recipe.
O - Overall...well, difficult to compare to the beer I first had about 20yrs ago, but no disappointment here at all. Nice, solid example of the doppelbock style - decent complexity, smooth drinking for the style...enjoyable beer to start the night with. I will definitely not wait another 20yrs to go back to this one again.
Reviewed by stingrayvr6 from New Jersey
3.7/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.7/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Had this on tap at the brewery. Poured a clear amber brown with frothy white head which dissolved quickly. Smell of light malts and some caramel and vanilla. Taste was light and watery up front, some sweet malts in the finish and a roasted malt taste balanced it out. Far too light to be a great doppelbock, not bad tasting though.
Nov 23, 2010
Dock Street Illuminator from Dock Street South
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
56 ratings
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