Smuttynose Smuttonator

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

(Bottle) Pours a clear mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of raisins, sugary, herbs, and a hint of smoke. Flavor of dark fruits, rich malts, and toastiness with a dry finish.

Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a chestnut color with a small tan head. The aroma was tangy, malty and slightly vegetal. The flavor was sweet, slightly roasty, had a light floral/fruity hop presence and had a malty and slightly vegetal finish. There was a hint of licorice and the hoppiness grew noticeably as it warmed.

Poured a very enticing translucent ruby red with a foamy, lacing off white head. Raisins, spice and malt in the subtle nose. Thick and syrupy on the palate. Very fruity flavor, grapes, plums, raisins, caramel. Finish is spicy and malty with a slightly medicinal twinge I expected more from a doppelbock and even more from a Smutty doppelbock, but it was alright.

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle with bottling year, 2005, in the lower right hand corner of label, a blurb along the left side, sampled at cellar temperature in a flute glass. Poured a clear auburn orange with frothy, foamy off-white/pale tan head, good retention, minimal amount of laced sticking. Rich smelling nose, grainy caramel, plum and raisin fruitiness, and a light spiciness that meshes with faint whiffs of alcohol. Good moderate carbonation and a crisp, dry, silky slick, smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Delicious tasting, caramel toffee maltiness, earthy dark bready, a plum and raisin fruitiness with a good sweet-sour flavor, spicy hops that have a nice soft bitterness towards the end, spicy and estery alcohol that provides a good warmth in the palate, and a dry fruity, malty finish with a light, lingering spiciness. With being disappointed in the last couple of doppelbocks I’ve tried, this was a welcome relief, tasty and balanced, an easy sipper, recommended.

22oz bottle, 2006 vintage. pours dense dark red with off white head that stayed. looks amazing. nose has toasted nuts, red fruits, and plums. flavor has toasted biscuit, red fruit, plums, raisins, brown sugar, caramel, and grapes. finishes sweet but not cloying with soft caramel and grape notes. alcohol well hidden. this is crisp, not sticky or syrupy like other doppelbocks. carbination is medium. very impressed.

22 oz. bomber. Poured a deep brown/ruby red color w/small off white head. Nose was of caramel & toffee as was the flavor. The alcohol is well hidden. Good brew.

Old bottle, maybe a year and a half or so. Poured a clear dark mahogany with a fizzy off-white head. Rich aroma of carmelized brown sugar, molasses, a vit of vanilla, and a touch of whiskey. Flavor is sweet and dry at the same times with notes of burnt sugar, creme brulée, some molasses, and maple syrup, with also some aged whiskey thrown in to round out the finish and give this a bit of a refined dryness. Long finish. Alcohol is there but not to the extent where it betrays the beer’s actual ABV. Really nice American Doppelbock that could hang with the best of the Germans.

Pours an amber color with a white head. Aroma is sweet and roasted malts. Flavor is malty, and roasty.