Stoudts Anniversary

Formerly brewed at Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Dunkler Bock
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter

Mahogony color with ruby highlights with a dark tan, whipped cream head that has a honeycombed structure building underneath it. Intense, strong, rich caramel malt aroma with a noticable dryness. Higher alcohols create a sense of warmth and rounded chacter. Grape skins, plums, and kitchen spices. Very winey palate from high alcohol content. Plums, prunes and dark fruit are kick-started at mid palate then blow up throughout the finish. Much more bitter than most doppelbocks. Some molasses almost pancake syrup. This is a big beer but not overwhelming. Much more drinkable than most doppels and without losing overall chacter and respect. Port wine of the beer world.

Another of my first cellared bottles finally being cracked. Pours a kind of cherry-wood color with a small, off-white head. Sweet carmel and apple nose. Flavors are carmel, apples (but not carmelized apples), a little banana, and some subtle clove hints. Too smooth.

750ml Bottle - Vintage 2/28/0? (last digit is illegible). Thanks to The_Beer_God for sending this one my way.

This is a beer that has eluded me for a very long time. It has been on my wish list from about the 2nd month I was on the site; finally I get to remove it.

Deep mysterious murky swamp water body with a dense (and noisy) large-particled tan head. Lace is good but not outstanding. The sweet fruity aroma permeates the air from the moment the crown is breached. Digging down into the dark fruit sweetness (mainly raisin) is balanced by yeast, tobacco, light alcohol, and some light phenol. The flavor is chewy, loaded with raisins and some astringent yeast. Lasting flavors carry one sip well into the next. Caramel sweetness coats the mouth. Light alcohol warmth and some tingly carbonation round the package out. A really nice beer! I hope they bring this one back.

Bottle. Thanks to jsquire for sharing. Small tan head that was mostly lasting, sparse lacing, fine-large sized bubbles, opaque, and a reddish brown hue. Aroma was malty, sweet and some notes of apple. Swee, malty, caramel, and apple flavor. Smooth palate. Medium body. Very quaffable.

Thanks to Jsquire for sharing this at his house. Brownish/red color with a tan head. Sweet fruits, and apple sauce aroma. Appley carmely malty taste with a bit of bitterness. Not too bad.

This beer pours with dark red/mahagony color when held up to the light. The head was a thin, off white foam. there is an enticing nose of dark, malty sweetness. Complex flavors of dark dried fruit, apples with caramel sweetness. Very nice beer.

2001 Vintage. Brown, with hint of amber when held to the light. A small lid of tight tan bubbled that completely covers the glass when tinted. Toasted bread with mild toffee and hints of licorice and raisins. thick and rick feel with just enough zip to not let it get stuck on the tongue. While not teeming with complexity, it is a malt mavens marvel. Mild caramel, mild fruit (blackberries come to mind), toffee later in the quaff, and just enough bitterness in the end to keep it honest once again. Noting the age, there is a touch of oxidation, which is easily forgivable. The linger is sublime, with a continuance of lightly toasted malt begging to be remembered, and this is one I shall remember. Thanks to beerslayer for sending this my way. This rivals may imports in this style.

UPDATED: FEB 10, 2005 I dont really know how to follow up these two great ratings of this beer. As a college student and having this be my 200th rating before the the "legal" age of 21, i only hope to gain enough klnowlege from these great posts to come back and rerate all my beers again once i have gained the appropriate palate and first hand experiance.