Mad Brewer Bunsen Bock

Formerly brewed at The Brew Keeper / Mad Brewer
Style: Doppelbock
North Ridgeville, Ohio USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

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Bottle at ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting. Hazy, dark ruby beer. Lasting dark beige head. Some dark syrup. Some dryness. OK, only a bit syrupy.

22nd May 2010. ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting! (Early hours of the morning rating). Light soft palate. Rich yeasty marmite and dark chocolate. Nice.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2010 This beer pours a dark reddish-brown color with a medium beige head that recedes slowly. Rings of lacing on the glass. Sweet malt and molasses in the nose along with a slight chocolate note. Medium, somewhat creamy body with flavors of chocolate malt, caramel, and roasted nuts. The finish is sweet with a lingering malty aftertaste. Decent overall.

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting.

Alc. 9.0%. Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average to large, creamy to frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, dark berry, raisin. Flavor is light heavy sweet, light light berry acidic and moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100522]

bottle at Chris-O ... deep brown .. sweet caramel toffee malts ... burnt sugers ... rich dark fruit malts

Experienced from the tap at the brewpub in a nonic glass. The beer pours the characteristic deep brown. The nose brings notes of melonoidins, malt sweetness, but also some toasted notes that are a little bit outside of the style’s guidelines. The flavor is a bit of a disappointment, promising a high level of maltyness up front, but giving far too much toasted and English roasted malt, and an oddly acidic finish.

Single purchased at Rozi’s in Lakewood. This pours a very nice heady dark deep brown -very attractive in a tall glass. Aroma is rich and chocolaty, lots and lots of malt flavor here -like an imperial stout, but without the harsh hoppy ale character. This just fills the mouth with smooth sailin’ roasted, chocolaty, sweet malt on malt action. They might have loaded this a bit to heavy on the malt side really. As it warms up it kind of gets gritty. I wish it was a bit more towards the lager side of the coin, might balance it out more.

Dark, muddy brown pour leaving a thin tan head and spotty lacing. Impressive aroma of coffee, cream, burnt molasses and dry toast. Mild mouth feel with a velvety smoothness over a medium to thick malt body. Tasty flavors of roasted malt and raisins with plenty of sweet undertones. A rich toffee/caramel presence and big nutty flavor rounds out the exceptional flavor of this bock. Well done Mad Brewer, keep shipping your bombers down this way.

This poured a dark red color with an off white head. Aroma was really malty and some fruits as well. Flavor was a bit watery for a double bock, somewhat malty and yeasty.

Bottle in trade from miketd. Thanks! Pours dark clear brown with short lived beige head. Smell is malty, nutty, buttery, creamy and fairly sweet. Taste is dark malt, but still thin flavorwise. Not roasty, but nutty and sweet nut brown ale like with lots of butteriness. Kind of an odd finish to it as well. Perhaps didn’t translate well to the bottle.