Butautu Dvaro Bravoras Grand Doppelbock
Butautu Dvaro Bravoras / UAB Fulgor
- From:
- Butautu Dvaro Bravoras / UAB Fulgor
- Lithuania
- Style:
- Doppelbock
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.51 | pDev: 25.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 13, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 25, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
1.68/5 rDev -33.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.68/5 rDev -33.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Intricate snub bottle with a long neck and a black-and-gold papered over branded black-and-gold pry-off crown cap. 375ml format.
Served chilled into a bierkrug. Purchased at a Maxima hypermarket in Vilnius. Reviewed live as a doppelbock per the name and label.
6.90% ABV.
A: ~7.5cm wide. White colour. Somewhat frothy, but otherwise average. Body is completely wrong in colour for the style, coming in at a clear coppery yellow more in line with a euro pale lager. Head retention is nice - about ~8 minutes.
It's a poor appearance for an ostensible doppelbock. The appearance coupled with the oddly low ABV relative to the style makes me very skeptical about this beer already.
Sm: Generic caramalt sweetness and generic malted barley is all I pick up on. Not the toasty caramel-forward bready doppelbock aroma you'd hope for. As it comes to temperature, buttery indicators of diacetyl off-flavour emerge.
This hardly suggests a beer that could sustain Franconian monks for 40 days.
T & Mf: Off-puttingly buttery, strongly indicating heavy diacetyl off-flavour. Artificial vanilla makes a similarly unappetizing appearance. Otherwise, it's just generic caramalt and malted barley sweetness. Imbalanced, poorly built, and dreadful for its intended style.
Even outside of style conventions, this is pretty deplorable swill.
Mouthfeel is also poor, with the aforementioned buttery texture. Smooth and wet and medium-bodied, lacking the heavy weighty hefty filling feel of a great doppelbock. At least the carbonation is adequate...
O: The best thing about this saddeningly abysmal brew is the design of the bottle. Neither grand nor a doppelbock, Grand Doppelbock is the diacetyl lover's dream beer, and would be welcome in an off-flavour detection kit for its textbook presence of the off-note. That said, it's not undrinkable, and I won't be "drain-pouring" it, because I'm not a pretentious tool with oh-so-chaste lips.
Easily one of the worst Lithuanian beers I've tried.
F (1.68) / AVOID
Feb 25, 2016Served chilled into a bierkrug. Purchased at a Maxima hypermarket in Vilnius. Reviewed live as a doppelbock per the name and label.
6.90% ABV.
A: ~7.5cm wide. White colour. Somewhat frothy, but otherwise average. Body is completely wrong in colour for the style, coming in at a clear coppery yellow more in line with a euro pale lager. Head retention is nice - about ~8 minutes.
It's a poor appearance for an ostensible doppelbock. The appearance coupled with the oddly low ABV relative to the style makes me very skeptical about this beer already.
Sm: Generic caramalt sweetness and generic malted barley is all I pick up on. Not the toasty caramel-forward bready doppelbock aroma you'd hope for. As it comes to temperature, buttery indicators of diacetyl off-flavour emerge.
This hardly suggests a beer that could sustain Franconian monks for 40 days.
T & Mf: Off-puttingly buttery, strongly indicating heavy diacetyl off-flavour. Artificial vanilla makes a similarly unappetizing appearance. Otherwise, it's just generic caramalt and malted barley sweetness. Imbalanced, poorly built, and dreadful for its intended style.
Even outside of style conventions, this is pretty deplorable swill.
Mouthfeel is also poor, with the aforementioned buttery texture. Smooth and wet and medium-bodied, lacking the heavy weighty hefty filling feel of a great doppelbock. At least the carbonation is adequate...
O: The best thing about this saddeningly abysmal brew is the design of the bottle. Neither grand nor a doppelbock, Grand Doppelbock is the diacetyl lover's dream beer, and would be welcome in an off-flavour detection kit for its textbook presence of the off-note. That said, it's not undrinkable, and I won't be "drain-pouring" it, because I'm not a pretentious tool with oh-so-chaste lips.
Easily one of the worst Lithuanian beers I've tried.
F (1.68) / AVOID
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