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Paulaner Brauerei

 

330ml bottle in Mae Kasa, Thailand. Pours a dark amber. Off white head. Aroma of dark fruit, caramel. Taste is lovely; dark fruit, caramel, malt, bread. High alcohol profile, so warming. Interesting.

 

330 ml bottle poured into a snifter.
Best by 9/23

L: A little hazy, dark amber, 1 inch head with medium retention, off-white foam has an orange hue and leaves a bit of lace.
S: White bread, honey, hints of noble hops, plum, apple juice.
T: Malt forward, low sweetness, clean lager, sour dough, dark fruit, sharp on the back, woody finish.
F: Medium weight body, medium carbonation, soft with a light creaminess.
O: Good, less sweet than I expected.

 

Beautiful, thick, dark robust flavor. It has a sweetness that may be offputting to some drinkers. Makes an excellent dessert beer. The smell of the beer is pleasant. The beer is smooth feeling in your mouth. After pouring and seeing the beer, for some reason that I can not explain, I was surprised by the flavor once I sipped it. I don't know what I was thinking I was going to taste, but I was extre.y satisfied by the surprise none the less.

 

 

 

 

This is my daily drinker. This beer is the reason I fell in love with Munich malts, and German beer.
Props to Paulaner for the original doppelbock!

The color is a a dark beige. The head is very light, and typically rolls away in a few minutes.

The smell is sweet almost like a fruit cake or cordial. Very boozy quality in the smell.

The flavor is malty, sweet, boozy, and bitter. A savory quality stands out, but is overwhelmed by a sweet, bready flavor.

It feels hot in your throat and stomach when you drink it.

Mouthfeel is syrupy and thick. The after taste is fruity.

Not only the original doppelbock, but a fine example of a high quality, mass-produced beer.

A: Beer pours a deep amber color with a white head. However, head retention doesn't last very long.

S: One can smell hints of toffee, toast, and caramel in the aroma.

T: This beer has an amazing flavor. The taste is nice and malty. Carmel, toffee, molasses, and bread are all notes that can be found in this brew.

MF: Medium to full body.

O: Great beer, one of the best examples of this style.

 

Look: It pours amber with an off white head. Head retention is low.

Smell: It has strong malt aromas with a bit of caramel and toast.

Taste: It has strong malt flavors with quick a bit of fruit flavors. There are some caramel notes with plums and cherries.

Feel: It has a medium full body with a finish that is on the sweeter side.

Overall, a highly malty beer that is quite sweet on the palate but not as much in the finish.

 

Poured into a tall clear pint glass. Appearance has a lovely mahogany color with more than a finger's worth of creamy tan head. Good retention and lacing.

Aroma: smells nutty. Notes of toasted nuts, bread crusts, raisins, biscuit, prunes, chocolate, molasses, caramel, and honey.

Taste: Tasting the bread crusts and toasted nuts really well, along with the sweeter notes like the raisins, prunes, and molasses. Essentially follows the aroma. Hoppy too, and these sweet notes balance it well. Body is around medium.

 

 

Dark reddish orange, ample foam and lacing, bright clarity and visible carb trails.

Dark fruit, toasted nuts and dark bread crusts in the aroma.

Malt forward, dark bread crusts, chewy and nutty, full bodied. Light raisin, mild hop bitterness. Ample carb and light sweetness, mildly sticky. Overall it’s a pretty classic Doppelbock.

Had a liter on tap at a proper Swabian restaurant. Not a bad price at all for the liter. Great color, incredible flavor, and perfectly sweet with a lovely finish. Very impressive, especially for a beer that isn’t near the top of its style rankings.

Pours a beautiful copper with a nice off white head. Smells bready and malty with a slight hint of caramel. Malty and sweet tasting with a smooth mouth feel and a slight hoppy finish that's just perfect in my opinion. The grandpappy of all doppelbocks never disappoints.

 

Pours a clear copper with a creamy head that dissipates relatively quickly. Looks gorgeous. Smell is bread, chocolate, and caramel. Taste mirrors the smell and there is a small but noticeable hoppiness to balance everything out. Fantastic dopple.

 

Best By: 01-23

A - Dark chestnut colored pour with thin lacing and light carbonation.

S - Bready, biscuity dark caramel malt with a slight bit of chocolate added in the mix.

T - Follows the nose with toasted caramel malt, bread crust, and light chocolate while finishing on the sweeter side with low bitterness on the backside.

M - Big body with gentle carbonation that gives ways to a soft texture.

O - This is a pretty fantastic beer.

330 ml bottle. Pours amber with tall, long lasting, fluffy off-white head and nice lacing. Aroma is of bready malt, grassy hops and caramel. Body is full, creamy and slightly crisp. Taste is of caramel malt, herbal hops, spices, hint of cherries and honey. Finish is long, dry and spicy. Nice brew.

 

I'm drinking this at room temperature after having a couple last night out of the fridge, and it seems to taste better this way. It's a beautiful shade of off-red, and it smells like a spicy caramel sea biscuit. Sweet with a modicum of brininess. There's some black tea notes alongside the malt, in addition to hints of dried stone fruit. Viscosity is middle thick, with a wonderful booziness wafting up from the glass. Definitely a well rounded and interesting beer, perfect for Autumn weather.. Of course I'm biased, because it's my favorite season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes from 7/2/2022.
Poured from a bottle into a Rastal nucleated Teku glass.
The body is dark reddish-brown with almost a finger of beige head. Retention is average.
The intensity of aroma is medium-low. There are notes of mostly sweet malt, milk chocolate and caramel malt. I detect a slight hop aroma.
The intensity of taste is medium-high. Wow! That's good! The flavor has a deep malty, chocolaty, caramel flavor with a mild hop finish. It's sweeter than other Doppelbocks I've had.
The feel is thick, fairly creamy, the carbonation is medium-low, the astringency is medium-low giving it a long dry finish.
Overall, I prefer that it's sweeter which is more to my liking than Celebrator. Although, I consider Celebrator a obviously superior Doppelbock. I will probably purchase this one more often.