Innstadt Kapuziner Doppelbock

Very dark foxy-amber beer with an even, dense, creamy-yellow head. Short sharp greenery smell, followed by sweet, thick cake nose with molasses or treacle and chocolate. Bready, sweet, cake & short sourish (lactic) whiff in each sip. Quite rich, velvety MF as for a rich egg- and chocolate filled cake dough. Bit of rum & raisins too, or it is as if they would fit in naturally. Little near-bitterish finish, earthy. Alcohol remains mainly hidden, but there’s some telltale warming. Ah - sweet one, but nice one. Dessert Bock, if any.

Dark amber with a tall khaki head. Sweet caramel aroma, fig and notes of sweet apple. Sweeter palate, a chewy caramel start, hops give it a bit of balance, but it stays on the sweet side into the finish. Finish has a soft molasses taste to it.

Bottle (kindly delivered by joss!): deep amber coloured, slightly lacing beige head, nutty, sugary nose with a touch of roasted malt and alcohol; solid sweet-bitter flavour, medium to full bodied; chocolatey-bitter and dark sweet-malty finish. O.K., quite well made.......

(33cl bottle) Clear, dark brown colour with a mid-sized, non-persistent beige foamy head. Sweet, slightly sugary toast-malty and (wal-)nutty nose with caramel and light fruity (prunes) notes. Sweet and sugary flavour, full bodied with an almost crispy carbonation. Toast-malty and nutty taste with caramel and traces of dried plums; sweet and roasty malty finish with notes of herbal hops and an almost non-detectable alcohol.

Marzipan sweetness, lavender and pastry dough in the sweet, malt forward aroma. Clear dark brown body is topped by a low cover of off white head. Very sweet flavour is nutty and pastry like in character. A hint of alcohol occasionally during the tasting. Medium light body is somewhat watery in texture due to fairly low carbonation. Bottle (BB 07.02.08) sampled at Oakes’ Xmas tasting 2007.