Procrastinator
Arvon Brewing Co.

Pours beautiful translucent tea color with a big foamy mocha head. Nose is burnt brown sugar, caramel, doughy malt, and raisin. Taste follows suit with the addition of charred oak, and finishing on a toasted malt note and light coffee bitterness. Very good beer, very complex. Feel is full and very satisfying. Delicious. Wish they would make more stuff like this.

 

No canning date (released on 12/17/21, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 1/28/22

Pours a clear, deep mahogany body with dingier ruby hues and is topped with over three fingers of densely fluffy, off-white foam; excellent head retention leaves a finger of near-creamy cap, a small, frothy collar, and myriad webby lacing speckled across the walls of the glass.

Aroma offers a meaty baked apple flesh enmeshed in caramel malts upfront, with oily cherry pits finding black bread crusts over the middle as a tinge of burnt sugar and mineralic lager yeast combine for the closing impressions.

Taste opens to a mineralic, charry overtone, developing into contrasting brown sugar and burnt pumpernickel toast over the mid-palate ad peppery yeast eases to apple core on the back end, while tinges of smoked toffee add heft to the finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium body with moderate carbonation, a slick texture ceding to a rapidly expanding grit becoming subtly prickly over the mid-palate as a pseudo-bitterness progresses into the back end and an almost acrid char detracts from a pleasantly creamy finish.

Unusually charry for a doppelbock, presenting unbalanced and trending hoppy in some spots; residual sweetness and a baseline toasted/bready malt character maintain levels of focus to the style, though little to form a memorable, coherent final product.