Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Aroma is malty with a hint of dates and maple syrup. Dark brown appearance with a thick and lasting off white head. Very fruity flavor is grape-like with some sweet maple and a malty finish. Good beer.

Bottle. Pours vibrant brownish red with quickly dissipating off-white head. Sweet, malty aroma of gingerbread cookies, fruity chocolate, and berries (or sangria, with a note of alcohol). Flavor like fruitcake or rum cake: somewhat fruity but mostly basic sugars, malts and alcohol. In both nose and flavors, alcohol overpowers and masks too much. Good and pretty complex, but I’m ruined by Ayinger Celebrator - a fruity doppelbock seems strange to me.

From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with no bottled/freshness date. Poured a hazy reddish purple hued amber with a foamy beige head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing. Smells like a dopplebock, dark ripe fruity and molasses, caramel toffee malts, a subtle dry ground nuts yeastiness and brief whiffs of alcohol. Good carbonation for a dopplebock and a crisp, smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Nice dopplebock taste, dark fruits, plums mixed with purple grapes, bready with a touch of caramel and chocolate malts, a roasted barley flavor starts to come out in the middle, the alcohol is well masked and provides a nice warming presence in the palate, and a dryish fruit and earthy breadiness in the finish, good drinkability, goes down smooth and easy. A well made dopplebock, I need to try more beers from this brewer. Acquired in a trade with fellow BR sammy, again, many thanks!!

12 oz. bottle. Poured a deep amber with a small brownish white head. The aroma was very sweet. Nice mouthfeel. Sweet drinkable beer, not great but pretty good.

Bottle. Aroma of bubblegum and sweet malt. Good mouthfeel and body. Flavor is similar to smell but with some vanilla, not too strong, with a nice roasted/bitter finish.

Pours a dark brownish amber color with a small, foamy beige colored head that quickly settles to a thin film. The aroma shows dark fruit, sweet chewy caramel, roast, and some earthy hops. The flavor follows with more dark fruit, raisins and figs all dipped in caramel, but balance out by some roasted cocoa and earthy hops. Medium bodied with balanced carbonation with a warming finish from the alcohol. Tasty little dopplebock.

Bottle courtesy of CheapDark. thanks much! This pours a nice deep red color with a smallish head. The aroma is nice with good hints of cherry and alcohol. The Flavor is a little roasty with some good sweet fruitiness of cherry and apple with some good alcohol drying it out.

22oz bottle poured into my Troegenator dimple glass (sweet and bigger thanks) produced a good finger worth of creamy tan head that trailed off to a thick lace. The body of the brew was clear brown with burgandy highlights really nice color on this doppelbock. Aromas’ of caramel malts and some nuttiness, this brew is very sweet in the nose. A little disappointed I didn’t get any bready yeast from it I think the flavors are good, but a tad on the sweet syrupy side for me. It needed a little more balance from the roasted malts to even out the malt sweetness. The body of the brew was spot on medium to thick in the mouth with enough carbonation to keep it from feeling like syrup Even with some flaws in my book, this is still one of the best American doppelbock I have tried. Very drinkable, I finished the bomber with no problems at all and was left wanting for more. Good job Tröegs, you haven’t disappointed me yet. my score’s maybe low in a couple areas but I am comparing it to Imports of this style