Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Doppelbock
Aying, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

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Oooohhh, my 100th rating!! This brew pours a muddy very dark brown with ruby highlights. The titanic creamy and rocky head is the color of brown sugar, has decent lacing, and is fully lasting. The nose is very well rounded and complex. It also changes as the brew warms. Toasted malt, flowers, herbs, resin, earth, raisins, cask wood, smoke, maple syrup, cola, spices and alcohol were the aromas that I could put my finger on. The rich and balanced spicy flavor starts with flowery, alcoholic and fruity sweetness. The long finish is moderately bitter. The full creamy and syrupy soft body finishes with a chalky alcoholic feel. A very good offering from a style I’m not particularly fond of.

Mildly caramel aroma with a hint of coffee. Deep ruddy amber color. Amazingly rich head. A really complex, but balanced flavor that’s sweet and warm. A little like I imagine a chocolate covered strawberry would taste like if it were blended smooth with a little malt and a hearty portion of alcohol. It is thick, rich, and sinfully pleasant.

Chocolate, raisins, and some other fruit. Chewy and satisfying.

Rich, thick and chewey. Serve in a snifter to really bring out the aroma of the hops, malt and alcohol. A spicy dry, dark fruit finish.

A true Bavarian Doppelbock. Nearly black in color (if you look with a strong light, the color is dark dark ruby red) with a dark brown head. Roasted toffee / chocolate aroma, with hints of buttery toffee and yeast. Roasted munich malt flavor with hints of caramel. Excellent balance in bitterness between roasted chocolate malts and sharp, twangy hops. Finishes with a delicious butter yeast flavor. More roasted flavor and not as sweet as some of the other doppelbocks I’ve had this years (aka. Weinhenstephaner).

A little bit sweet, but a very excellent doppelbock.

Great doppelbock, malty and sort of sweet, but not too sweet.

I love this beer when it’s fresh! Dark chestnut brown color, delicious malt nose (not oxidized this time), a little esters and alcohol poking through....ahhh. Then you get to taste it! Sweet maltiness, hints of raisons, great munich malt chewiness, beautiful! I only wish they would use the older recipe that left more body to it. Well progress in brewing science and changing audiences will do that.

I’ve been dreaming about this beer for I can’t say how long. Finally, got it on tap. Everything I could imagine and more. Complex enough to make my head spin.

what else is there to say about this beer, it’s delicious