Capital Square Series Imperial Doppelbock

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

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(12oz bottle) Pours a clear mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of caramel, cherry, raisins, and plum. Flavor of caramel, raisins, cola, and some bread.

Pours a clear, dark brown with a 1 finger, creamy beige head that has decent retention. Aroma is caramel, sweet grain, crusty white bread, brown sugar, sweet cereal grains, acorns toast and some spicy hops. Flavor is dusty grain, molasses, toasted maple wood, dark caramel, floral and spicy hops and some cooked dark fruit. Over-cooked sugar cookies and nuts come out as it warms. Palate is medium bodied somewhat creamy on entry, medium carbonation and sticky, chewy finish. Nice brew, rich and sweet, but still well balanced.

(12oz bottle thanks to blutt59) rich deep garnet-brown with medium tan bubbles. Nose of caramel, sweet grain, and maple. Taste of sweet grain, caramel, light toastiness. A bit watery in the body, well hidden alcohol. Nice doppelbock.

sort of a whiskey brown color, not much of an off white head, nicely lacy. nose ia airy sweet malt and caramel. flavor has raisons, sweet malt, and a roasty malt. there is a bit of an alcohol presence. medium bodied, sweet finish. ok, i guess. a bit too sweet for me.

bottle, color of cofffee with foam ring, aroma and flavor of sweet toffee and molasses, malty dark fruit also,carbonation is good for the style, alcohol is pretty well hidden and has a satisfying finish

12 oz. Opaque chocolate with a quickly dissipating head. Nose is molasses, chocolate liqueur and light hay. Flavor is the same. Medium-heavy body is sweetish, thinned by alcohol,and smooth with carbonation.

12oz bottle. Deep brown color, with a thin oily head. Brutal, deep nut and dark fruit aroma, a touch of rich liqueur-like alcohol too. Hmm. While there are some pleasant dark fruit tones, I feel that Capital has failed, yet again. A touch too thin, like what you’d expect from a cost-cutting macro brewery. I suppose the candi-sugar really doesn’t help, the beer is already overwhelmed in malty sweetness. Some pleasant milk chocolate tones in the finish. Underwhelming beer overall.

2010 Bottle - Pours a deep ruddy amber with a medium tan head...aroma is dark fruity malt, yeast, doughy, almost quad-like in its sweet figginess...flavour is similarly malty, raisin, light spice, sticky sugar, kinda thin despite the gravity...finish is a bit of heat and sweet grain...drinkable...

Appeared a dark brown/red with a nice head that laced out very excellentlly. A malty aroma and a thick, sweet malty front end with a light to moderate hop finish. Definitely not a session beer, but it’s a nice singleton.

This is a strong and very drinkable doppelbock, possibly too drinkable but I’m OK w/ that just right now. The color is a deep ruby brown, nearly black w/ no head after a few minutes. W/ raisin and caramel in the fore, malt pretty much dominates the noes--as it should be for the style. The flavor is not so strong but similar and the texture is a bit lighter than expected but sticky and moderately sweet w/ carbonation just a shade to heavy. Overall, this is quite nice and I feel myself slipping into a doppelbock stupor much quickly than I would generally expect. Not really on par w/ the best examples in the world but still a reasonably good example of the style.