Sixpoint Emasculator

Brewed by Sixpoint Craft Ales
Style: Doppelbock
Brooklyn, New York USA

Rich thick, heavy and smooth. Flavors if coffee, toffee, rich dark roasted malts and sweetness. Some dark fruit and figs dates. Flavor has some molasses and faint hops. Overall pretty good.

Decent aroma of fruit, brown sugar, bread. The appearance is a beautiful red/brown, tan head. The flavor is fruit sweetness, bread. The ending is sweet, with mild bittering hops. Decent, but hardly the best dopplebock around.

tap at blind tiger. Pours deep brown with a tan 2 finger head. Nose is sweet rich and mlaty. Taste is sweet, malty interesting overall.

Tap at Barcade. Another dull, typical beer from 6p. Mildly vegetal, with a big noble hop aroma, way too much hopping for a doppelbock. Quite malt sweet, some celery and corn and that kind of stuff. A bit lactic, again, I think that is coming form their yeast.

On tap @ Muggs in Brooklyn. Pours reddish brown. Big hoppy aroma & taste. Wouldnt have guessed this was a dopple. Some dried fruit, molasses, malt sweetness combat that real nice bitterness. Tasty

(draft) Clear blood red body, tan head, lovely lacing. Aroma is moderately sweet, roast, chocolate, some alcohol, light raisin, anise. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, some alcohol, roast, molasses. Fairly smooth medium body, mild alcohol burn.

Growler. Pours a dark brown with no real head just some tan bubbles. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, bitter chocolate, and a light sweetness in the background. Flavor continues along these lines with a nice roastiness and some sweet malt and molasses. Pretty tasty but certainly not what I had expected from a doppelbock (I’m not complaining though). Nice balance of roast and sweetness without being too sweet.

Growler. Aroma of sweet, nearly taffy-like malt, some roasted malt with a touch of coffee. I guess there are some floral/bordering on piney hops there, but I don’t get them nearly as much as some others do. Flavor quite sweet as well with only a meager attempt by the hops to balance. Maybe that’s to be appreciated in a doppelbock, but this one remains to sweet for me, as most doppels do. Low carbonation coupled with the sweetness creates a touch of stickiness/cloyingness. Not unpleasant, but not a favorite, I think the first time I’ve been slightly let down by Sixpoint, and it may be entirely my fault!