Smuttynose Smuttonator

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

dark copper finger head. smells malty. toffee raisin molasses. creamy viscous mouthfeel.. a little bracing in the finish but over all this is a good beer.

Clear bodied oranged brown with a good streaming of bubbles lasting within for a good portion of its sitting. Two finger high roofing of smoothed creamy light tanned froth is nailed to the top. Keeps a solid thick skim of foam always present once settled and the lacing is mostly keeping close to the liquid in a thin sheet of fine foam. Some spots are flecked about across the glass. Aroma is fairly milding with moderate malt tones of toffee, maple, molasses, and a slight toastyness that adds a nice bready-like drying note. Thick on malt, moderate to mild and flavor, not sinking or heavy, very even set and smooth with a well-rounded taste and warming. The taste is hard to pin down as its nature is alluringly complex and simple in tone, yet has an urging length and tiny shavings of things in it that makes for good lip smacking intersest. Toffee and caramel are at the center in a milding set girth with a super creamy surrounding of all sorts of notings of dark fruits; raisin, fig, and a slimming dark cherry edge. Slightly spiced with a greasy backed, oily hopping adding a slight herbalness within the malty warmth. More so entering into the finish. The unique thing I find about both its flavor and thickness is a small breadyness that has a nicely set toasted realm to its overall scale of malt. Its slight, but somehow always present. A dull set fruityness in a bigger figgy, molassas tone really tends to take over as it goes as the warmth never leaves nor does the nicely added hoping in the finish. This definately gerw on me as I went along to the point where I was fixating myself on what exactly was going on. A perplexing palate soothing softy of a brew. When taken in to account of its Doppelbock style that it. Feel is quite nice. Soft, yeilding, smooth, creamy, uncloying sideness and thickness. Big mediumness to full bodied on the palate. Not too heavy and definately not any heavier then need be. As it goes down pretty damn easy. The wamth is all malts and flavor and not just a bunch of heat. It sinks in like a good breakfast and soaks in like a hot suana. Gradually making its case for you to enjoy and continuing to enjoy,without much hassle to your palate. A pleasurable beer for sure. Its abundant in complexing flavor and warmth all the while keeping a simple ease about it. How the hell they do it? I don’t know, but damn if ain’t a solid Doppelbock and then some. Onward S’muttonator!

Bottles courtesy of Pailhead and Bucknaked. Dark fiery mahogany with decent tan head. Huge caramel aroma, very toasty, with pine hop background. Almost BW-like aroma. Flavor much the same, except malt is all over. Caramel, toffee, roasted grains, maple syrup, etc... Some warming alcohol in the finish. Oily smooth mouthfeel. Overall very well done.

Clear dark brownish copper. Thin off-white head. Sugary lightly german hopped doppelbock aroma. Hops to me are Capital-esque. Flavor is nice and balanced. Has a roasted sweetness that kicks in after rolling around the tong a bit, and the sweetness is lightly hopped which is great.

Bomber. Poured a clear ruby/orange with a short cap of creamy off-white head. Nose was full of dark sugars and alcohol... pulled caramel, brown sugar, and molasses were there... woodsy/leafy hoppage, too. Flavor was full with about a medium body... rich caramel, a hint of chocolate, dried floral hop bitterness, and heavy, fairly well-integrated alcohol. Pretty smooth on the palate, but not-so-memorable... tacky bitterness and alcohol at the finish. Quite well-done.

Pours a caramel brown with an orange-ish tone. I poured it slowly out of a bomber so I can’t really comment on the head. Maybe I didn’t let it sit long enough (a week) because it’s a tiny bit murky. Smells strong. There’s a gentle alcohol smell with a big malt behind it. Smells like a barley wine. Tastes like a barley wine too! Ah, but there’s the smoky sour kick that makes this a pretty tasty Doppelbock. The flavor is really well done; tasty and wholesome. In fact, it’s giving me some pretty intense flashbacks from Germany. It must be good. The mouth feel is a little thin, but the carbonation works well with it. Little bubbles linger on the tongue and the roof of the mouth that compliment the slightly dry finish. I’ll definitely have another one of these!

Pours a deep mahogany hue. Very nice looking beer. Not much head. Aroma is very rich with caramel, toffee, bread, and nutiness. Flavor is lots of caramel malts, some slight roastiness, with a touch of alcohol. Mouthfeel is very nice. Another solid brew from Smuttynose.

Thanks Illinismitty. Pours with a deep amber-red body topped by a thick head with some lacing. It’s sweet and malty with nice caramel and toffee notes and an underlying hoppiness. Medium to full bodied and smooth.