brianbuntz (49), Santa Monica, California, USA
Mar 26, 2007 Pours a deep amber, almost brown. Quickly diminishing head. Boozy aroma with dark caramel and whiskey. Hint of citrus.
 smhncabot (310), Cabot, Arkansas, USA
Mar 21, 2007 pours deep amber. aroma deep caramel, dark fruits, sherry, and alc. taste is what the aroma advertises and is very sweet. this isnt but jus overly sweet for me.
UselessGdTaste (363), Long Beach, California, USA
Mar 15, 2007 Oh my goodness this beer was sweet. I may as well have been eating rock candy. Now I know that it needs to have a lot of sugar to get to 14%, but at the cost of flavour? Come on. I guess it needs a good 10 years of age to make things tolerable.
kimcgolf (825), Dacula, Georgia, USA
Mar 13, 2007 I can sum this beer up in one word...SWEET. Unfortunately, that’s not "sweet" as a good thing, but "sweet" as in sugary, syrupy, sweet. The malty sweetness overwhelmed everything else in the aroma, and the 14% alcohol weighed in to make the taste and palate resemble drinking a carbonated syrup. To complete the disappointment, both the head and lacing were minimal as well.
All and all, a pretty crappy beer that I will pass on next time.
shadey (1496), Rochester, New York, USA
Mar 10, 2007 2003 bottle consumed February 2007. At least three years old. Pour is a deep garnet with no head. Aroma is fruity and malty. A real mix of delicate scents. Flavor increases the number of complexities. Body is thick and heavy. This is a beautiful winter beer in the old world style.
shintriad (698), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mar 10, 2007 Beauteous copper with zero head; thin pour. Medium-dry vineous notes betray the shock of sugar-sweetness that blasts your taste buds right away, with a cognac-like finish, maybe some orange rind. Impossible to notice the alcohol unless you pay close attention. Far too sweet for my tastes, but exotic and tasty, if lacking in nuance. Thin and a bit slick, very flat...perhaps it wasn’t aged right? I’ll encounter this again someday, I’m sure.
thebeertourist (2753), Oslo, Norway
Mar 9, 2007 Bottle. Clear, deep copper colour with a fast disappearing head. Sweet, nutty raisins aroma. Nutty flavours with raisins and a good deal of alcohol, ending on a dry, nutty alcoholic note. Slightly metallic. Full-bodied, with not enough carbonation to match, a bit sickly. Not a favourite, I am afraid.
kseecs16 (870), Naperville, Illinois, USA
Mar 8, 2007 Updated: Dec 15, 2007This is not a good doppelbock. Exceptionally sweet, cloying, candy smell and taste. Color is clear amber and bubbly, nothing like a good doppelbock. Alcohol plainly obvious in this muddled mess. I found this to be okay when I had one outside in twenty degrees tailgating. But setting down to rate it, its flaws unravelled before me.
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