Livery Hoppelbock

Hand Bottled 18.7 oz bottle from BBB63. Pours a cloudy dark orange brown with no head. Aroma of faint pine needles and tangerine. Taste is flat with hints of tangerine, caramel malt, and pine. Similar to a flat yet hoppy peach flavored Snapple. Has a slight alcoholic finish to it. Not bad but would like to try this fresh.

Date: 04/28/2007
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting, Dark Lord Day, 2007

cloudy orange, wispy head, light caramel aroma, sweet caramel malt flavor with lots of hop bitterness, either the growler is old or this beer is unbalanced and boring

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 5/10
Score: *+/4

This gowler from BBB63 on Dark Lord Day poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a hazy no visible carbonation brown colored body. The weak aroma was malty. The thin mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of malt and sweet. A decent one that I would consider having again.

Growler from BBB63 shared at DLD Hampton Inn tasting. Pours a medium amber witha thin off-white head. The aroma is alcohol, fruit, and flowery hops. Not malty enough and too hoppy to be a bock of any fashion in my book, which is what I expected. As it’s classified here as a ESL, I think that better desribes it.

tap at brewery....can’t say that there were too many tastebuds remaining at this point in the day but here goes....aroma: flowery hops paired with a equally balancing caramel malt sweetness....taste: somewhat barleywine-like, the hoppy notes were balanced with toffee and caramel although the hops played more of a dominant presence in the brew...a doppelbock with a strong hop profile. pretty good!