3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured dark red with a slight tan head. Aroma is musty, sweet, and hot alcohol. As flavor warms, the maltiness really begins to take shape, when cold the alcohol is too prominent. The fruity esthers they speak of are nowhere near as center stage as a Schneider, taking place on the back end, obscured by the sweetness.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a dark copper with a medium light brown head. Aroma is spicy with a hint of sourness. It’s complex with hints of banana and other typical wheat aromas. In the mouth it starts of slightly sweet, dominated by banana and the other wheat flavors. There’s a hint of sourness and then it finishes sweet. It’s thick and lightly carbonated.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a deep ruby with a medium tan head. Aroma has a faint yeasty and malty sweetness. Flavor is sweet and caramely like a doppelbock but with a twinge of sour wheat character reminiscent of a weizenbock. Like the name suggests, it’s sort of a hybrid of the two styles, and it works well. Unique and enjoyable.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark brown with a two finger coffee colored head.
nice lacing.
Aroma is very sweet. Caramel, prunes, burnt sugar, cooked bananas, alcohol.
Flavor is sweet, fruity and roasty with a bit of alcohol burn on the way down.
Started out too sweet, but as it warmed in the glass the sweetness diminished or I got acclimated to it. Even so I’d find it hard to drink more than one of these in a night.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Ah, I can’t kill this one, but Avery regularly lets me down, and they surely do so again with this brew. Pour was decent, nothing special, but it gave an ok initial head (with fairly weak retention) and yielded ok lacing. The body was dark brown to black, hard to get light through. The aroma was strong caramel over top of the usual weizenbock notes of bananas, roast, spicing. The flavor was way overdone on the caramel and included some bread and plastic aspects. Disappointingly hot on the alcohol and a little too astringent, needing some age for sure. But, at these caramel levels, age isn’t going to improve this much. Mouthfeel was heavy with moderate to light carbonation.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Poured hazy brown color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate toasted caramel malty aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium blanced flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From the bottle. Pours a very dark, cherry color, with a very quickly diminishing light-beige head. It has the classic dopplebock taste, but I think this one is a bit wheatier than other’s I’ve tried (which is to my liking). On the 1st sip, the aftertaste is very alcoholic, but once your palate acclimates, it’s very much more thick, but smooth. I’d say it’s definitely not as sickly-sweet as most other dopplebocks.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dark brown with a small head, almost no lacing. Aroma is banana, roats, yeast, chocolate, caramel, darker fruits. Flavor is the same but overall feels way off balance.. the flavors are all over the place and the mouthfeel was a mess. Light alcohol in the finish. Not my favorite from them.
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