Fox DeLuxe Discombobulator Doppelbock

Fox Deluxe Brewing LLC
Brewed at Sand Creek Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Oswego, Illinois USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

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This is a failure of a doppelbock. Unbalanced and way too roasty for what the guidelines are.

This is very drinkable, especially for a dopplebock. The aroma and taste are essentially all caramel

Tasted on 3/2/11 from a 12oz bottle given to me by my roommate, thanks Phil. Pours cloudy brown with just a bit of orange tint, and a thin off-white head that recedes to a thin collar of lace. The nose is sweet malt with a ton of caramel, brown sugar, molasses, and maple, with a bit of basement and earthy aromas. The flavor is more bread malt than sweet components, but there are still maple, brown sugar, and caramel, along with the earthy component. The body is medium with lively carbonation and a long bread malt and earthy finish.

Fire red with a murky thin tan head. Aroma is McSticky with toffee, caramel, nuts and dough. Fire up the oven, we’ve got some sweet bread to make. Taste is obviously sweet with toffee, malt, caramel and mild grains. It’s sticky alright. A one trick ponied malt bomb that I tired of before I finished the bottle.

Pour is a dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is a nice roasted malt with an equally nice dark fruit. Flavor is again an excellent dark fruityness with some sugar and spice. Leaves a little molasses on the tounge after the swallow. This is a soild dopplebock.

Pours a clear dark amber/garnett color with a pretty big fluffy light tan head. Aroma is molasses and sweet roasted malt. Taste is blackstrap molasses, licorice, sweet malt and merlot wine. Quite complex and very good. A tummy warmer for sure.

Sampled at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Glen Ellyn, IL. for a Mead, Cider, and Beer Tasting. The pour to my wine/sampler glass was amber/brown with a decent, light tan head and clingy lacing. The nose was toasty, a little caramel, and some brown sugar sweetness. The flavor was similar, with some nice, warming alcohol, subtle bitterness, and a smooth, creamy texture to the tongue. A good Doppel.

Deep copper color with a medium tan head that diminishes rather quick. Nose is sweet while both malty and fruity. It has a roasted malt taste with a dry alcohol finish.

Pours deep reddish bronze with a nice dense tan head. The aroma has lots of deep toasted dark malt, thick bread, dark caramel, dates and slight warmth. Medium / thick body with some abv warmth hitting first on the taste and there is minor carbonation. The flavor also has toasted malt, some oxidized traits, somewhat watery, caramel and phenolic spice. The finish packs even more of an alcohol warmth. Okay doppel.

Bottle. Pours a murky, dirty water dark brown with just a faint whispy off-white head that accumulates and clings to the edge of the glass. Aroma is sweet with some roasty malt character. Very chocolatey deep roast malt flavor. Malt tends toward burnt and astringently bitter but falls just short of that remaining palatable. Full creamy mouthfeel.