Collaborator Doppelbock
Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille
- From:
- Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Doppelbock
- ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.54 | pDev: 3.74%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 05, 2018
- Added:
- May 27, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Big, chewy, malty, dark lager! Brewed in collaboration with Horst Dornbush for his forthcoming book on dark lager styles.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
4.39/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.39/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pouring a cold growler into a goblet. The beer pours a dark chocolate brown color with creamy tan head of 2 cm. The foam recedes to a sturdy edge layer and small wispy island.
The aroma is caramel and roasted malt with a good dose of chocolate too. Some grainy bread notes too. Hops and booze are both very hidden on the nose.
The first sip reveals a fairly thick body with fine tingly carbonation that gently rolls across my palate on each mouthful.
Flavor is what the nose promises with toffee and a bit of roasted notes with a lot of dark chocolate. Not sweet easter candy notes but a deeper more complex chocolate flavor.
The booze is well hidden and no hops show up here either.
Its a bit of a sipping beer based on it feels heavy in my belly, but the ABV is hidden making it easier to drink than an 8.3% doppelbock could be.
A well made doppel that i am glad to have sampled, definitely something I would order again when visiting the pub.
Aug 04, 2018The aroma is caramel and roasted malt with a good dose of chocolate too. Some grainy bread notes too. Hops and booze are both very hidden on the nose.
The first sip reveals a fairly thick body with fine tingly carbonation that gently rolls across my palate on each mouthful.
Flavor is what the nose promises with toffee and a bit of roasted notes with a lot of dark chocolate. Not sweet easter candy notes but a deeper more complex chocolate flavor.
The booze is well hidden and no hops show up here either.
Its a bit of a sipping beer based on it feels heavy in my belly, but the ABV is hidden making it easier to drink than an 8.3% doppelbock could be.
A well made doppel that i am glad to have sampled, definitely something I would order again when visiting the pub.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.72/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.72/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Poured into a tulip at the brewpub.
The appearance was a pure dark brown close to black color with an eggshell white foamy small cap of a little head. The head slid off fairly quick. Not much lace, barely anything.
The aroma had a bready/yeasty sweetness up front, reminiscent of that German earthy to grassy character I sometimes find in bock beers. Then the dark chocolate bittersweetness entered in practically perfect. The more I smelled the more I thought it was like drinking dark chocolate liquid bread.
The flavor pretty much mirrored the aroma spot on and had a magnificent aftertaste of dark chocolate earthy and dusty liquid bread.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fine sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt hidden enough, it didn't even feel anywhere close to what was projected. Super smooth lager-like finish.
Overall, an absolutely wonderful doppelbock! Why am I only having this now as I would have loved to have it earlier in the Spring!
May 27, 2018The appearance was a pure dark brown close to black color with an eggshell white foamy small cap of a little head. The head slid off fairly quick. Not much lace, barely anything.
The aroma had a bready/yeasty sweetness up front, reminiscent of that German earthy to grassy character I sometimes find in bock beers. Then the dark chocolate bittersweetness entered in practically perfect. The more I smelled the more I thought it was like drinking dark chocolate liquid bread.
The flavor pretty much mirrored the aroma spot on and had a magnificent aftertaste of dark chocolate earthy and dusty liquid bread.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fine sipping quality about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt hidden enough, it didn't even feel anywhere close to what was projected. Super smooth lager-like finish.
Overall, an absolutely wonderful doppelbock! Why am I only having this now as I would have loved to have it earlier in the Spring!
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