Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Andechs
Style: Doppelbock
Andechs, Germany

RERATE: Bottle shared with joss and Oakes. Dark brown thich pale amber/tan head. Sweet malty aroma, clean fresh and bready dark toasted malt. Really clean tasting. Chewy, but not super sweet. Toasty with a hint of caramelized and almost smoky sweetness. Really well-balanced and better than I though the first time around. Bottle shared with beastiefan2k and dickinsonbeer at Spuyten Duyvil. Clear deep garnet beer with a thin white head. Great bread crust, crackery/biscuity malt character. There is some light plumminess there as well along with some clean but aromatic noble hops. Body is nicely balanced, has a bit of peppery alcohol bite, but there is still enough maltiness to balance. Some nutty and slightly oxidized aromas seem to be in here. Flavour is balanced. It’s a tasty enough brew, but not all that special either. Ar 7 Ap 3 Fl 7 Pa 3 Ov 12

(Bottle (best by 12/29/05) via trade with <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=1 target=blank>beeryum, thanks Dave!) Dark honey-brown body with a half-inch of soft biscuit head. Aroma is fairly mild - honey and malt sweetness. Only very slight lacing. Mouthfeel is very smooth but actually fairly light-bodied. Flavor is honey and malty sweetness overlain by light bitterness. Leaves a honey aftertaste. Nice stuff but thought there’d be more - pretty flavorful but not really complex. Slight alcohol apparency in finish. Honeyish flavor and smoothness were probably most notable qualities.

Draught at Klosterbrauerei Andechs. Brownish colour with a light brown head. Aroma and taste of fruits and malts. Very good dobbelbock.

Draught af Klosterbrauerei Andechs. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. red-brown colour. Powerfull aroma and fantastic caramellic flavor. Long powerfull finish. Very oily palate. A very good beer.

Bottle thanks to Papsoe. Pours deep reddish brown with a big off-white head that fades pretty quickly to some sirrus clouds. Nice malty aroma. Taste is sweet at first, with the malts dominating. At the end, it has an unusual bitterness that sufaces along the sweetness, not replacing it. It’s very interesting and drinkable.

An aroma of barley and malt introduce this beer. It is brown with a white head. This beer has a mild chocolate grain taste. It fades smooth leaving a mild chocolate nut/malt taste lingering.

Brought back from the old country by Brian. Thanks! Sampled at the Fat Tuesday tasting with friends. Enjoyed it, but it did not blow me away by any means. But for the price of less than a Euro, one can’t go wrong. Pours a good mahogany brown with banana, clove, and caramel coming through on the nose. Leads int a solid malted beer, with some doppelbock funk. If I had the choice, I’d turn to Capital’s Doppelbock series over this one. Tasty, but not overwhelming by any stretch.

A dark, reddish brown beer with a strong white head. A very sweet, toasted malt nose with a hint of citrus fruit, the finish is slightly bitter sweet, similar to liquorice. The taste again is sweet malt, a potent, slightly alcoholic flavour comes though towards the end, with a long, lingering malty aftertaste. Bottle, purchased from the Beers of Europe, Setchey, Norfolk.