Carobock
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery


- From:
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
- Delaware, United States
- Style:
- American Dark Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 4.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2018
- Added:
- May 28, 2017
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 2
We were inspired to creat our own iteration of a Bavarian-style Weizenbock, a style known for being rich & malty with notes of chocolate, bananas & toasted malt. Ours was styled to be a play on a 'chocolate covered banana', so we selected toasted carob pods to provide intense, earthy chocoalte flavors & rounded out by aging on Madagascar vanilla beans. Brewd with malted wheat, dark Munich malt & chocolate wheat & fermented with a traditional weizen yeast to boost teh banana & spice notes that typify the style.
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Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
4.05/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at brewery:
Pours a dark brown with a lovely finger and a half of tan head in a snifter. The beer does fall to pedestrian with a thin ring and only a little lacing.
Nose has classic banana and bread - though a dark bread. There’s a tang than I assume is from the yeast. Chocolate and some light earthy baking spice also is noted.
The initial tastes were similar to a chocolate covered banana. Getting into it the chocolate fades a bit and I get a little vanilla. The banana and tang consistently take the end of the taste. A lingering chocolate brownie taste stays light on the tongue.
Feel is medium light, though the flavors lean a bit bolder. An interesting beer that doesn’t stray completely away from the main style. The chocolate seems to hide it early, but it comes out in the end.
Nov 10, 2017Pours a dark brown with a lovely finger and a half of tan head in a snifter. The beer does fall to pedestrian with a thin ring and only a little lacing.
Nose has classic banana and bread - though a dark bread. There’s a tang than I assume is from the yeast. Chocolate and some light earthy baking spice also is noted.
The initial tastes were similar to a chocolate covered banana. Getting into it the chocolate fades a bit and I get a little vanilla. The banana and tang consistently take the end of the taste. A lingering chocolate brownie taste stays light on the tongue.
Feel is medium light, though the flavors lean a bit bolder. An interesting beer that doesn’t stray completely away from the main style. The chocolate seems to hide it early, but it comes out in the end.
Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Had on tap. Pours murky, dark brown in color with minimal head. Taste is banana, dark wheat, pumpernickel and vanilla. Sweet, wheaty, heavy bodied with moderate carbonation. Makes for a tasty and well done, not traditional example of the style.
Oct 18, 2017Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured a brown body with minimal head. The aroma has hints of sweetness like chocolate and yeast along with notes of bananas. Smooth, medium body, bubblegum sweet yeast strain with hint of chocolate and vanilla (doesn't really come through) and then has some banana notes and clove/spice finish.
Oct 09, 2017Reviewed by ChipChaight from New York
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
At the brewpub in Rehoboth DE. Almost black opaque dark brown withe minimal tan head. Floral liquorice, slightly smokey molasses, overipe banana, and vanilla coffee. Full bodied. Delightful.
Sep 02, 2017
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