Kim-ach-Touch Ale
Tree Brewing Co.

Dark brown in color with reddish highlights to it, looks clear aside from some floating chunks of sediment in it and pours with a finger of tan colored coarse, bubbly head that has a poorish retention to it and leaves a moderately lacy patchwork on the glass.

Rich sweet malt aroma with odd fruity hints of something like grape jelly, some faint weedy hop notes on the back-end.

Malty sweet flavor forward with some slightly fruity notes of dark grapes or plums as well as faint hints of crushed pomegranate juice and acidic coffee.

Slightly higher then average carbonation to it, Medium/ heavy bodied base with a dark malty sweetness to it, like a very dark brown bread and sorghum syrup with faint notes of chocolate, pecans and toasted coconut.

Back-end is surprisingly hoppy with a mild to moderately bitter finish, weedy with faint bitter tropical hints with a bitter citrus peel and green mango flavor to it.

Appearance - Pours a reddish brown with three fingers of frothy off white head.

Smell - bready caramel malts, earthy and leafy hops, cocoa, nutty aromas, hint of dark fruits, and hint of coffee bean.

Taste - Bready caramel malts followed nicely into the earthy and leafy hops. The cocoa, nutty aromas follow suit. The hint of dark fruits and coffee bean help to round out the beer.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with a lingering sweetness from the malts and cocoa.

Overall - A tasty blend of the brown and dopplebock. This brew displays a harmonious balance between malts and hops. The lingering sweetness from the cocoa and malts is pleasant. Another winner from the folks at Tree.

650ml bottle - apparently 'Kim-ach-Touch' is the Okanagan native term for 'brown bear', which Tree uses to tie into this blend of their doppelbock and brown ale.

This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and slightly creamy beige head, which leaves some dense forest canopy lace around the glass as it slowly but evenly subsides.

It smells of rather sweet caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, some muddled dark orchard fruitiness, an oily nutty character, ephemeral cafe-au-lait, a bit of free-range ashiness, and maybe a twinge of earthy, leafy, and mildly perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a still dissociated wet ashy thing, gritty toffee squares, some plum, cherry, and bruised pome fruitiness, weak nutty notes, a chalky coffee grounds essence, and some fast-fading leafy and sauced-up floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its probing, fizzy, and otherwise supportive frothy measures, the body a solid medium-heavy weight (for either constituent style), and sort of smooth, as an uncertain (hop, booze, char?) bitterness lands with a thunk right about here. It finishes off-dry, but seriously trending towards the latter - where the fuck did that come from?

Well, this is one complex and yet simple brew, all at the same time, somehow - almost overbearingly sweet up front, and slowly morphing into a nice (if obviously surprising) dry finale. More of a hoppy and somewhat boozy brown ale than anything particularly doppelbock-ish in nature, but I suppose that's what one might expect when these two styles are forced to bump uglies, eh?