Doppelbock
Pump House Brewery
- From:
- Pump House Brewery
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Style:
- Doppelbock
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 4.38%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 03, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 12, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.72/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
341ml bottle, a single procured from the local liquor monopoly concern.
This beer pours a clear, very dark bronzed amber hue, with two chubby fingers of tightly foamy, somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some rocky headland lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of sweet caramel malt, stewed raisins and prunes, red grapes, a hint of medium baker's chocolate, a hard water minerality, mild sugary syrup, and just a twinge of alcohol warming. The taste is still big on the sweet, bready caramel malt, whose cause is furthered by slightly zingy blended black fruit, fading vinous notes, tame musty, earthy hops, and a persistently understated, and damned-near AWOL booze quotient.
The carbonation is a bit prickly at times, but generally serviceable, the body a sturdy medium weight, well smooth, and with more than a touch of creaminess. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as the overall sweetness levels hardly seem to waver - it's all the masked hops and alcohol can do to commendably keep this out of cloying territory.
While not the most complex example of the style, if that's the only knock against this offering, then they should be relatively proud - the fruity, grainy malt is duly represented, but not allowed to run the whole show, and the hefty ABV is deftly sublimated. Rather worthy of a go, should you come across it.
Mar 12, 2013This beer pours a clear, very dark bronzed amber hue, with two chubby fingers of tightly foamy, somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some rocky headland lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of sweet caramel malt, stewed raisins and prunes, red grapes, a hint of medium baker's chocolate, a hard water minerality, mild sugary syrup, and just a twinge of alcohol warming. The taste is still big on the sweet, bready caramel malt, whose cause is furthered by slightly zingy blended black fruit, fading vinous notes, tame musty, earthy hops, and a persistently understated, and damned-near AWOL booze quotient.
The carbonation is a bit prickly at times, but generally serviceable, the body a sturdy medium weight, well smooth, and with more than a touch of creaminess. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as the overall sweetness levels hardly seem to waver - it's all the masked hops and alcohol can do to commendably keep this out of cloying territory.
While not the most complex example of the style, if that's the only knock against this offering, then they should be relatively proud - the fruity, grainy malt is duly represented, but not allowed to run the whole show, and the hefty ABV is deftly sublimated. Rather worthy of a go, should you come across it.
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