Nice looking doppel. A little lighter than I imagined, adding to the drinkability. Brown bread maltiness mixed with toffe and raisins. Well balanced.

Bottle - Perfect Pour. Dark clear reddish brown, creamy light tan head. Raisin bread and toasted caramel nose warms to touches of cherry plum. Soft sweet rich caramel and dark fruit bread flavors round with a faint hop tone. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi-sweet finish. A nice rendition, but it’s not Celebrator...

Amber/brown with a nice off white head. Aroma is malty, caramel, toffee, light alcohol. Taste is nice and malty, light caramel, grapes.

The local liquor store had a whole line of Aktienbrauerei brews ready for sampling. This parade of German beer also made it easy to do a comparison between styles made by the same maker. The first to meet the glass was the Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren Buronator Doppelbock. It’s easier if you just drink it instead of trying to pronounce or type the name. The body has a dark red wine character with an uncannily difficult-to-coax head, itself relegated to a scummy whisp of foam. The aroma feels follow, with faint echoes of plum and raisin, though the aroma never descends so low or rich to match the aroma of the raw fruits. Merely a see through surrogate. Somewhere else in the light fog of aroma there’s a nice sassafrass smell, but otherwise I have great difficult diserning any other aromatic details. The flavor mimics a soda feel, buzzing with a mineral and carbonation flavor until mid-taste, where a sultry wood and cheese stage begins. Top that with an uncouth dose of alcohol and a little bit of charred steak and you get a resoundingly hollow collection of dark flavors with a too harsh palate.

Bottle. Pours mahogany with slight white head. Taste is thick bodied, slightly sweet. Aftertaste is nice and sweet. Fine beer.