Before-After Triple Bock
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For a kick read the reviews for Before-After Premium Lager.

This is presumably the triple (!) bock version and at least solves the "no malt flavor" aspect, still at 12% and the silly before she's ugly after she's pretty label. Pours an amber orange clear with minimal head reducing to a paper thin ring. Aroma is slight grain and malt - there's some dirt in this. Malty sweet not overpowering or suggesting too much adjunct.

Taste is sweet, per suspicions this was abv-maxxed by adding sugar but malt balances what could be a sickly brandy feel. Slight ester along with a barley swirl-in. Drinks light considering the 12% and it's not hot but feels it might be sneaking one by you. It's closer to watered grain alcohol than refreshing. Mouthfeel a sticky liquor feel, candy left in the sun too long, green beans. Nuances are fighting to dominate. Nothing screws it up too much. Feels overcarbonated in spite of the fact there's no head that sticks around and no columns of tiny bubbles. Again, that sticky "loaded" feel in spite of being light in the loafers.

Generally a fine enough strong bock, a bit of an anomaly - sugered up without too much damage to the taste but one might suspect this won't be your friend in the morning. As this is basically a novelty beer (see the cute label) one must be careful but the price point, 2.99, hard to pass up.

Amber color, with a white, medium-sized head. Aroma of malt, candy, and alcohol. Taste is malty, syrupy sweet. Alcohol bitterness in the aftertaste. Alcohol is too obvious.

A bit murky with some floaters. The smell attracted me, like the lone female in a dark and danky bar. Similarly,the taste grabbed me quickly. The strong feeling was there from the start. Overall, as I hug and hang on for sloppy seconds, I have no regrets at $2.50 for a 16.9 ounce one night stand. I may even come back tomorrow.

More like a cheap whiskey than a good beer. Juice-like. Very boozy. All malt.

Drinks slightly better than the fuggin awesome but not by much. Just a big sweet bomb of fruity and sugary esters mild bready finish some tannic twang and ABV again doesn't become clear until it warms up. Easier to finish though was able to get through the whole bottle but at 3 bucks I could probably find a better craft beer option with more flavor. Still worth picking up just to say you had a beer from Lithuania but I wouldn't grab for it again.

 

From the bottle of indeterminate age, it pours a slightly hazy amber color with a modest, soon diminishing to zilch, head. Lots of alcohol in the nose. Taste follows the nose, but with a sweetish undertone to it. Hard to determine the actual style, based on the name, if you drink one of these, anything will look gorgeous!

Aged 8 years and this beer is fantastic with notes of caramel, malted bread, Belgian sugar and Belgian yeast. Takes on a wee heavy scotch ale character as well as barley wine. Based on reviews I feared this beer would be a disgustingly brewed alcohol mess but was actually true to the triple bock style and quite enjoyable.

 

500 ml bottle. Pours amber with tall, long lasting, fluffy white head and nice lacing. Aroma is of caramel malt and ripe fruit. Body is full and slightly crisp. Taste is of sweet malt, alcohol ripe fruit and peppery hops. Alcohol is noticeable. Finish is long alcoholic. Somewhat sweet for me and too alcoholic.

Pours a clear, golden color with a snowy white head. Aggressive pour yielded only a couple of fingers of head that dissipated quickly, leaving no lacing. This does not have the complexity I have come to expect from a doppelbock. It is overly sweet without much malt character, rather heavy with little carbonation, and quite alcoholic. The finish is a little more crisp than expected, with no lingering cloying sweetness on the palate. There was a tag on the sample I purchased that touted the high (12 %) ABV. That and the price (about $2 for a 0.5-liter bottle) are about the only things this beer has going for it.

Pours a bronze color with little head forming. Nice clarity on it. Aroma had some malt, fusel and corn flavor. The taste is malty sweet then strange bitterness and alcohol comes through. As it warms the chemical nail polish aspect of the alcohol heat in this becomes pronounced. Its a malt liquor of sorts that suits a specific purpose, to get you drunk cheaply. It has some bock elements but the adjunct material is hard to hide. Its ok.

 

The high alcohol definitely comes through, and if that's what you want, then this is for you. However, other than that, this is a sugary, syrupy, barely drinkable liquid that I can't really compare with other beers. I found it unpalatable and unfinishable.

 

this was a drain pour

This is the Colt 45 of dopplebocks.

Enjoyed from the big bottle in a snifter. This blonde dopple pours a bright clear orange color with a quickly dissipating head of big white bubbles that leaves nothing...no ring...no lacing. Nose of apples, light citrus orange, caramel malts, and a lot of purge grain alcohol booze. Flavors are caramel coated apple meets a light citrus orange or mandarin, followed by a large grain note on the back with searing alcoholic warmth. An interesting take on a blonde dopplebock. Strong warmth from the booze, sweet aftertaste, and smooth slick mouth feel. Not bad at all.

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