2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 9/20
Everyone at work told me how much this beer sucked. Low and behold, it’s just like a euro strong lager! A style I adore. Clear golden yellow pour with good white head and great lacing. Nose is all corn. Flavor is some vanilla, sickly sweet grassiness, almost no trace of hops. Sticky sweet cloying mouthfeel. Not as bad as the peeps led me to believe, but I’ll take a rinkuskai over this any day. Love the name and the price though.
2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Light golden colour, iniially you get a sweet floral taste on the tongue and a lovely dry finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draughts. Poured golden with a white head. Light sweet grassy aroma. Very
sweet, perfumy and floral.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
The Dan Journal #254. Tasted 3/28/09. 22oz bomber. Filtered with a golden hue. Medium ring of head. Aromas of odd grains and mild cereal. Faint nose. Rather full bodied with apple and estery flavors. Little thin in the palate. Glad I could try this, but a little low on the spectrum.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Eh! Clear golden color, good bubbly white head. Floral nose with bready malts. Sweet malt flavor alittle yeasty and/or grassy with some hops. Medium-light body. Read up on doppels and you probably won’t find grassy, floral, or medium-light in any of them...wasn’t an awful beer, but unexpected - just borderline awful.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
22 oz. bottle shared by Tmoney99. Pours a crystal clear golden color with a fizzy medium sized white head. The aroma was grassy, grainy malt, herbal hops, vegetal, and slightly acidic. The flavor is a bit different than I was expecting in a dopplebock; crystal malt, grassy, moderately spicy, a strange apple fruitiness, finishes dry. Good carbonation and medium bodied. I will pass on this in the future.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 oz bomber. I am not a fan of Abita, but this was one of their better brews. Pours golden. Sweet with some malt notes. I would say this is one of the lighter bodied doppelbocks I’ve had.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
I was let down by this beer, even knowing it wasn’t very highly regarded before buying a bottle. You hear plenty of mixed thoughts about the gator, but in the end it resembles a Euro Strong Lager with a few bock tendencies. Nice golden yellow body. I used my Hefe glass for this one for no other reason than I wanted to use that glass. Large, lasting white head and ample lacing. Aroma is on the sugary side with a bread-like scent coupled by a sweet grassy aroma. All malt in the aroma. Medium to light body, drinks with ease for a big beer, finishes a touch tacky but not too shabby. Bread, biscuit flavor with a mild nuttiness. I sense a dose of adjunct power, but it sort of works overall. Not too many distinctive qualities, glad I finally got to try it although I will not be looking back for this one ever again.
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