Paulaner Salvator

Brewed by Paulaner Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Doppelbock
Munich, Germany

12oz bottle. Auburn brown pour with a thin light tan head. Sweet butterscotch aroma. Sweet yeasty bread taste with hints of caramel and dark fruits. Crisp palate with little noticeable carbonation. Even finishes up a sweet with a tacky bitterness at the very end. Decent beer to have now and again. Little sweet to drink a sixer though.

12 oz Bottle. Pours a nice copper and amber blend. Frothy off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt quite evident. Dark fruit, nearly chocolaty taste. Only the slightest hops detectable. A nice dry finish. I was impressed with this fine offering.

The bottle I had is actually aged for almost 2 years (2008 release). I’ve had this beer fresher, and I’ve got to say it has improved with age. Reddish-brown body with a thin creamy light-brown head, just a little cloudy. The taste is more complex than before, it is quite woody, with strong hints of vanilla, toffee, and an intense breadiness. I even tasted a good amount of fruit notes, like cherry and plum (the latter is very pronounced). There is some nice sweetness both in the taste and the finish. Nice and crisp on the palate, medium-to-full body to it. The alcohol is fairly masked, for a 7.9% beer. Drinks easily. All in all, this remains one of the original and best doppelbocks. I highly recommend aging it for a year or two (disregard the best before date), it’s worth it!

Light brown coloured beer with no carbonation and a rather samm white head. Light malty hinted sweet fruity touched aroma. Medium to full palate. Finish is ligth bitter sweet with some malty hints and some very light alcholic yeasty touches. Nothing to special

Pours a light brown/caramel color with a thin tan head that dissipated quickly. Subtle malt and caramel aromas at first, but as the beer warmed these aromas became stronger and I was also able to pick up a hint of cherries and alcohol. The flavor started off very sweet, German malts and caramel. In the middle there is hops, cherries, and alcohol (almost like cough syrup but in a good way not like medicine). The finish is dry with almost no aftertaste. This beer is thick, full-bodied, and rich. The warming alcohol effect makes it a nice after dinner drink on a cold winter night. I thought this was very enjoyable, drinkable beer.

Bottle as gift. Malty, toasty, fruit-like (prune) aroma & pours amber with low carbonation and a low white head that dissapated quickly. Medium full body, rich malty flavors with melanoidins & sweetness from the malt. Low to no hop flavor, rich & smooth with some alcohol warmness. Long malty finish. A nice beer for a cold January evening.

Pours a cloudy cream soda. Quickly dissipating head. Thin mouth feel, not much carbonation. A little watery even. Pleasing malty flavor though, if a bit too sweet. Like the caramel. A smooth easy drinker, but nothing to write home about (but something to write ratebeer about evidently). My third dopplebock, and not at all what I was expecting after the Thomas Hooker Liberator and Ayinger Celebrator. I found those two much more like each other than this ... and way better.

Poured a slightly cloudy, deep copper with a smallish off-white head. Doughy malts up front with some bitter hoppiness. A real mouthful. Well crafted beer.