Atwater Winter Bock

Brewed by Atwater Block Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
Detroit, Michigan USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

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Pours a clear Amber with a small, fine bubble head. Aromas are of light malt and very little hop. Taste is very thin with bitter malt and a hint of hop, slightly sour and light booze finish. Tastes watered down

Pours dark amber with a caramel clementine aroma. Taste is very malty with almost a sickly sweet flavor. Not my favorite beer but cheap and decent

Pours a clear deep orange with good head reducing to a thin film with good lacing. Aroma is butter, a little chocolate and molasses, and some fresh apple. Taste is malt, dark breads, and finishes with cloying spiciness. It grew on me and I finished it no problem, but the taste and palate just wasn’t enough to make it stand out as a go-to winter warmer.

12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 11/2012. Pours lightly hazy reddish copper color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of caramel, raisin, apple, molasses, toast, dark bread, light nuttiness, herbal, earth, and light spicy alcohol. Pretty nice and pleasant aromas with solid balance, strength, and complexity. Taste of caramel, raisin, apple, molasses, toast, toffee, dark bread, light nuttiness, floral, light pepper, and herbal earthiness. Lingering notes of caramel, light fruits, molasses, toast, toffee, dark bread, light nuttiness, pepper, and floral earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Pretty nice flavor balance and robustness, with solid complexity; with slight cloying spiciness on the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a lightly creamy and crisp mouthfeel that is ok. Alcohol is well hidden with hardly any warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a pretty good doppelbock. Solid flavor balance and complexity; and quite smooth to sip on. A pleasantly enjoyable offering.

Bottle. Pours a brown-orange color with a small off white head. Sweet caramel malt aroma with a hint of winter spices. Flavor is what you would expect from the aroma with a big malty body. Finishes with a stange medicinal taste that lingers. Dry texture and average carbonation. Decent, but a step below some other local Winter bocks.

Six pack from Hardings. Pour from a 12 oz bottle. clear brown brew with small creamy white head. Aroma of some caramel and toffee, a little grass or spice. Taste is moderately sweet malt at the start slaked by astringent hops at the end of the swallow. Fairly dry finish with just a little of the caramel hanging on. I was worried this would be too sweet, but rather is just full bodied. Very enjoyable brew

Bottle. Pours very dark amber/copper. Cream off white head. Mild spicy aroma. Very creamy with smooth texture. Some caramel in the flavor, but more bitter. Bitter mouthfeel. I enjoyed this.

bottle. amber with small head. big caramel malts. slightly medicinal flavor and a hint of alcohol warmth.

Drank from the bottle at a family gathering. This was better than I expected. Nice job with malty sweetness without tasting syrupy or too heavy; hint of caramel, toffee. I wouldn’t turn down another one.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of raisins, bread, nuts, toasting, and caramel. Poured copper/amber in color with a small, off-white/tan head that lasted throughout. Clear. Lightly sparkling. Flavor is lightly sweet. Tastes of spice, light toasting, and some malts. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Molasses and light malt finish. I liked this one I would go back for another one if I could.