Stoudts Smooth Hoperator

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Doppelbock
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

In short: A uber-hoppy dark lager with a strong resinous bitterness. Tastes like a resinous Double IPA.
How: Bottle 12oz. Consumed fresh a few weeks after purchase.
The look: Beautiful clear ruby body topped by a medium beige head
In long: Pleasant aroma of resinous hops, bakery store, citrus fruits and caramel. Body is round and has a creamy and sticky texture. Taste is resinous hops, condensed citrus juice, wood, rich caramel, coniferous tree and tree sap. The bitterness is aggressive, resinous and feels sticky. This is a rather intense hoppy beer. There was a little something “different” about the body but I don’t think I could have guessed this was a lager with the hops being so dominant. As intense as most Double IPA. Very good beer with an intensity that will keep your taste buds more busy than a tv remote control in an household of four overweight.

Dark amber with fluffy and creamy off white head lots of floral hop aroma and plenty of lacing earthy malt taste caramel malt and a citrus hop taste with a bitter hop finish ..... very good balanced brew medium bodied and alcohol is hidden well

Bottle Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Average staying power and laces well. Has a good hoppy aroma, of grass, citrus, and toffee. Has a good carbonation. The flavor is bitter but very crisp and refreshing. Has a medium body. Blended very well. Has a watery texture but its good. Has a strong finish with a good aftertaste. This is a powerful beer if you’re not ready for it. I like it.

An alright beer. Pours copper color with an off white head that retains well, laces nice. Nice aroma mix of hops and malt. Smooth mouthfeel as the hops and malt seem to compete for which flavor is going to stand out. Somewhat sweet from the malt, good bittering.

Courtesy of northernbrews

Bottle: The aroma consists of caramel and toffee along with some citrus and lightly grassy hops. It pours a transparent amber with a moderate off-white head. The flavor starts with caramel, toffee, and faint fruit. The finish has some mild citrus hops. Medium bodied with soft carbonation and and mouthfeel.

deep amber pour and lighty carbonated with a tiny white head. kinda smelled like moss or treebark to me and had a bitter hint of hops but was smoothed out by tons of off flavored malts. not entirely bad, pretty average. awesome bottle.

Pours a four finger light tan head that fades very slowly leaving a good lace. Almost clear red/amber color. Light carbonation and medium bodied. Light piney nose. Flavor is a hoppy burnt sugar with some lingering aftertaste. Unusual dopplebock. $2.25 for a 12oz bottle from Beverage Warehouse Winooski, VT.

Appears a very nice dark maroon hue with an off white head that laces the entire way down. Carbonation appears light in my SA sensory glass. Smell is weak, but what is there smells like a light IPA. Taste is good, weak hop notes over a balancing malt profile. Mouth is sufficient, medium body with medium carbonation. Extremely easy to drink, no sense of alcohol content, pretty damn good, but why waste that wonderful name on anything but an IPA?