3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bomber. Pours a golden yellow with sturdy off-white head. As soon as I start pouring a notice a sweet floral honey aroma and some light caramel. When I get my nose into it, the sweetness is much more candyish, like a pineapple Jolly Rancher. The flavor is fortunately not as sweet as I was afraid it would be, but is sitll a little on the heavy side. The sweetness is more bready in the mouth. There’s a little bit of herbal bitterness in there, mostly in the aftertaste. Drinkable, but it’s pushing the malt liquor line.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap at The Bulldog. Abita missed the mark a little on this one. Lacks the fullness of a heller bock.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
bomber, vanilla, skunky, caramel, golden, minimal head, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, lightly sour, light body, average carbonation,
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
It’s not a bad beer, just nothing special. I’ve had better from Abita so I was a little disappointed. The taste was nothing complex, just your simple lager with a small hop finish and a little malt taste. It’s just a plain beer but it’d be good on a hot summer day.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Basically this sucks. Not that I’m surprised, but come on Abita, put something into it. This is the thinnest, most flavorless, 8% beer I’ve ever tried. There are some off flavors to go along with the grainy nothingness, but that isn’t what I had in mind. The alcohol is well hidden though...
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Writing my first review on RB feels a little weird and a little right. I’m having this beer on tap and was sold on Abita’s Andygator doppel helles bock by a bartender that I’m cool with. Shucks. It’s really not that great. Maybe like Victory’s moonglow, but without wheat and less interesting. It’s easy drinking and well carbonated without being too heavy, so at 8% I could see college kids drinking this up. But I came for a well-balance and flavorful pint, and this is somewhat of a letdown. But then again it’s Abita. Why would I be surprised?
Time for another! Quick!
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled@Akkurat, Stockholm. Yellowish golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is mild maltyness, some bread and mild alcohol. Flavour is bready malts, some slight floral and grassy hops. Hides the ABV rather well, but is at the same time quite watery for being 8 % abv.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Light beige, lasting head. Golden color.
Nice caramell aroma.
Full malty taste with some caramell and a balanced bitterness.
Good dubble bock.
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