Fort Collins Barrel Licked Bock

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

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Pours a dark clear garnet/amber with a pretty decent light tan head. Laces the glass. A rich caramel and stout-like smokey aroma asserts itself. Taste is quite busy. There’s smoked sweet roasted malt, buttery caramel, coffee, and a vinous, brandy-like warmth and richness. I would call something like this an imperial doppelbock. Very good, but almost overpowering, yet well balanced.

Pours brown body with little head, the brown becomes darker in the last glass of the bomber. Rich, boozy aroma. Initial taste is rich malty, an old ale, with some citrus, fig, grape, charred oak, a little whiskey. The finish is a Little disappointing, as we are back to the base bock that doesn’t not quite deliver the perfect punch, rather a little astringent and wimpy finish. I respect the whiskey, I had and enjoyed it straight.Bomber from Florida mail order shipper.

Poured into a snifter. 3.0 A: Hazed dark brown color. Not quite one finger of creamy tan head formed. Retention wasn’t very good, even for the ABV, but a very short ring of lacing was left. 4.5 S: I was wondering whether "oak barrels" meant bourbon barrels, but it certainly doesn’t seem like it. I’m actually a bit glad it’s just oak cause this has a very nice aroma on it. As advertised, there is plenty of porky roastiness. Moderate oak aroma with a mild vanilla component. This is particularly clean for a dopplebock. There isn’t a huge breadiness or caramel component like some. Rather, this contains a highly complementary mix of plum and date fruitiness, caramel and toffee, and molasses. 4.0 T: Deceptively light in body, but I’ll address that in the next segment. Just thought I’d mention it first here since it has implications for the taste. This is quite dry for a dopplebock, which is to say that it isn’t super sweet. For that, I’m quite happy. Lots of dark fruits in this - plum and dates reign supreme with raisin, currants, and prunes a couple steps behind. It’s not nearly as smoky as the nose suggested, but it’s still present and it adds nicely to the profile. Caramel, molasses, and toffee in descending order. Moderate oak and the vanilla is a bit easier to detect. 3.5 M: Medium body. I think the lighter than usual body benefitted the taste, but I do like the thick, rich, and creamy mouthfeels of a more typical D-bock. Carbonation is a hair lesser than I prefer, but it’s fine. Some creaminess, but I want some more. 4.0 D: Easy to drink and tasty with a great nose. I’m more than certain that this is the best beer I’ve had from FC. I’d pick up another bottle if there weren’t hundreds of thousands of other beers I need to try. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 03-06-2012 03:01:53

Hazy brown color,light head that had a short hangtime.The aroma was nicely malty with some caramel and a roasty side,with a hint of smoke in there.The flavor was fairly decent,with a good malty side some faint hints of smoke and a bit of fruit in the beginning.The brew later dies off to a mildly bitter slightly alcohol end.Overall not a bad brew but a bit pricey at 10/bottle.

Bottle @ home. Pours an amber brown appearance with a brown head. Oak, vanilla, smooth, sweet whiskey, incredibly malty, bock lager aroma. Very full flavor with a huge dark malty lager body accented by wood, vanilla, smooth whiskey, and a touch of dark fruits. Oaky, vanilla, bock finish. Nice one FCB!

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, nuts, light wood, vanilla, slight whiskey, light brown sugar, caramel, slight smoke, and a hint of smoked meat. Poured deep amber/brown in color with a small, tan/light brown head that greatly diminished but lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer, as well as around the edges. Cloudy. Sparkling. Full of tiny particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of malt, wood, slight whiskey, light smoke, light vanilla, slight brown sugar, and light caramel. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Malt, wood, caramel, light vanilla, slight whiskey finish is slightly dry. 10.4%ABV is completely hidden throughout.

light caramel nose, gentle smoke. dark toffee, small white ring of a head. gentle and sublime smoky body that yields into more of a barrel character, some cherry sweetness.

Smokey, green apple, bourbon, some darker fruits. Darker amber brown pour, thin head, whispy rings and islands of foam. Flavors of bourbon barrel, apple, caramel, vanilla, smoked malts. Interesting balance, not overly boozy.

22. Thanks alex! Pours a murky dark brown with toffee edges. Big caramel and bacon edges. Creamy medium body. Caramel and bacon on the mid palate. Tasty smoky flavor profile. Long smoky finish.

This beer has some issues! Very smokey and hazy, not balanced. Has a candy, licorice flavor. might be good poured over vanilla ice cream

22oz bottle from jtortorice, thanks Josh! Pours a cloudy, deep ruby-amber colored body with a finger-width, dense, tannish beige head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing throughout. Aroma is sweet caramels, smoke, dark fruits, citrusy fruits, toffee, a light roasty earth, and some vanilla. Flavor is similar. Smokey caramels and toffee up front with some dark fruits and prunes. Some citrusy, earthy flavors come out in the middle along with a smooth vanilla, light tootsie roll chocolate, and a touch of leathery wood. Finishes dry, smokey, a tad spicy, roasty, caramel sweet, vanilla, and fairly fruity with a moderate bitterness that leaves a lengthy aftertaste. Medium-full, smooth, somewhat sticky body and creamy, moderate carbonation. Overall, a pretty solid beer. Really nice caramel, dark fruit sweetness along with a distinct smoke throughout. Can’t pick up a ton of barrel-aging, but this has a fairly nice complexity to it. Good beer.