Smuttynose Smuttonator

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

Good deep gold appearance with a light head. Cleam aroma, fruits with maybe some strawberries. Nice fruity start in taste, some cherry, clean ending.

Thanks to <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Shipments-Profile.asp for this trade last year. Finally opened to share at my club’s Bock tasting. So this is well over a year old. It hit us all with a big alcohol nose. Pours a nice head of foam even into plastic cups for sampling. Has some of the character of a Belgian dark beer, with some candi sugar sweetness. But very smooth, like "Cream of Malt." A great break from the Hubers and Leinies we had before cracking this one!

2005 Bomber. I was starting to get a little down on Smutty. They’ve been disappointing lately. This one is different. This is a damn good doppel. Pours beautifully. Great head atop a dark brown body. It has a very ... um ... doppel type aroma to it ... roasted malts, buttery, nutty, a little syrupy (maple) and even a little bit of piney hops which adds a nice dimension. Very roasty and buttery in the mouth, like any good doppel should be. Despite the high ABV, you don’t really taste it, it’s nicely masked. Starts off bitter and roasty. Roasted malts, earthy, nutty and piney hops. It finishes pretty smooth, with maple syrup and butter. Somewhere in the middle it’s pretty sweet. Very good doppel, and it’s reaffirmed my faith in a good brewer.

Nice brown/amberish color,small but decent lived tan head.The aroma was malty sweet with a hint of caramel and maybe even a slight smoky side coming through as well.The flavor was very nice,malty and sweet with some mild fruit notes coming through a bit of smokiness and a light caramel hint towards the end.It also has a bit of a mildly heavy feel to it with the alcohol not being to noticeable in the beginning but definately makes itself known in the end with a nice warming effect going down.Over all i’d have to say this is a very nice brew and well worth having again and again.

We didn’t love this one or hate it. The only distinguishable aroma was of a red wine, as well as alcohol. Pours a dark amber color with a large, fizzy off-white head. Hazy body. Both lightly sweet and acidic on the intial taste. Chalky residue on the finish. This beer seems like it wants to be sweet, but its not due to the overpowering alcohol taste. No malt aroma, but a malty taste.

This brew was recently tasted at a beer reception and poured out a nice amber with a thin long lasting head.The taste was of malts with just a touch of sweetness.Pretty good.

22oz. "Bottle Conditioned in 2005." Pours a beautiful mahogany with medium coarse bubbles forming a vigorous head that slowly retracts leaving a thin but impressively lacy layer of bubbles. The aroma is expansive and inspiring: radish, brandy, banana’s foster, honeyed toast, and lightly roasted coffee comingle in the nose and permeate the flavor of the brew as well. The beer is just slightly sweet, though far less so than many others of this style with a healthy dose of hops providing harmony between malt, sugars, and alcohol. Doppelbocks can oftentimes be hit or miss for me and this one is right on the money. Quite impressive.

This is a great doppelbock esp. considering its huge abv. Pours a nice deep amber, almost brown but clear and a nice thin lasting off white head. Aroma is lots of munich malts, dark crystal, deep molasses and caramel with a touch of roastiness. Lots of sweet powerful big malts throughout the flavor with munich and dark crystal dominating. With all the sweetness and alcohol, this beer still isnt cloying at all. The high abv isnt really noticed at first but you can feel it after about half the bottle. Very nice.