Uerige Doppel Sticke

Brewed by Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei
Style: Altbier
Düsseldorf, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Serving: 330 ml. bottle bought in Ocaña (Toledo, Spain). It pours a dark, reddish brown color with a very thin top for a head. The “head” dissipates very quickly to a thin ring around the edge of the glass. The nose is very malty and the association with a barley wine isn’t off. Malty with dark fruit notes and an obvious sweetness. The flavor is strikingly smooth but rich with notes of dark dried fruit, dark caramel, dark bread, and raisin. Very tasty. Rich in body with low carbonation leading to a medium, warm finish. This excellent brew is definitely worth trying.

What an odd beer. Nose is initially hop pungent, before becoming toffee malt heavy. Body has raisin, toffee, molasses, fig and licorice with a medium length, medium bitterness in the finish. A bit more body and this would be an absolute classic. Will age a bottle to see what happens, as I think this could get quite interesting...

Un verdadero descubrimiento. La mejor cerveza de Dusseldorf que he probado. Desde luego es una interpretación de una barley wine alemana; oscura, densa, sabrosa, con toques de frutos maduros y muy redonda en la boca. Una gran cerveza que lástima no encontrar más a menudo.

Es una de las mejores cervezas Alemanas que he probado. Color oscuro, con olor ahumado. Para los grados que tiene no sale el alcohol, sino un toque dulce/ahumado.

color marron con espuma poco persistente pero aguanta un rodal hasta el final. Aroma a maltas ahumadas. frutos secos como pasas y uvas. sabor sorprendente dulce con toques a lupulos, es una cerveza de gran complejidad con el alcohol perfectamente integrado y un retrogusto a lupulo perfecto.

Color marrón oscuro bien filtrada con espuma beige poco persistente. Aroma salado, me recuerda a jamón Serrano con pasas. Sabor muy parecido a las barley wine con final seco y amargo

Bottle. Pours deep brown, nearly black, with a couple fingers of tan head and some sticky lacing. Aroma is all malt, mostly roasted and some burn notes. Taste is super malty with tons of caramel and a little chocolate followed by roastiness. The palate is very full and a little sticky. Overall, this is a killer beer. Thanks to the guy at Whole Foods who recommended it to me.

March 2010: Tall thin brown flip-top bottle, poured twice into a Frankenheim Alt glass. First pour the beer was clear, second murky. Deep, dark reddy brown body with a lovelly velvet/silky feeling tan coloured head. The smell was of lighty burnt malts, with some harsh chocolate blocks added to take away the charcoal thoughts my nose began to get. The aroma sweetened as the beer warmed. The malts fill your mouth with bitterness from the burnt aspect mentioned in the smell. The alcohol then burns into the tongue and the chocolate turns into a more bitter mouthfeel than it hinted in the aromas. This adds to the impression of the beer being really bitter, which it is at first, but as your mouth dries a warming richness arrives bringing a sweeter aftertaste. I liked it a great deal and am very pleased to have at last tasted one of these beers.

hazy mahogany with a thin but lasting beige head. syrupy full body with medium carbonation.

aroma: rich dark bready malt, roasty malt, dark fruit and toasted marshmallow, mild alcohol notes. Complex and inviting.

taste: sweet caramel and chocolate malt, dark orange (grand marnier), and mild alcohol. has a very similar malt profile to good american barleywines.

a definite after-dinner sipper. would be great with some walnut or mushroom brie, or even a creamy bleu.

(33 cl bottle courtesy of rawalli, thanks! Bottled on: 02/06) The initial aroma coming from the swing-top bottle when opened (with a loud pop) is that of hops. Pleasant, herbal and brief. Once poured the beer reveals itself to be of a clear, dark brown variety with a medium, tan head that laces the glass heavily and shows decent retention. The aroma after pouring is different. There is a yeasty note with a faint sourness but I also detect aromas of herbal hops and some syrupy malt that does not dominate the aroma as it would do in for example a doppelbock. When tasting the beer it seems all the flavour ingredients are still present along with notes of dried fruit in an pleasant and smooth, amalgated form with not much of an alcohol bite. Texture is oily, carbonation is soft, body is full and the finish is slightly bitter with astringent notes. Very smooth and drinkable for a beer of this age. Girlfriend says: "It tastes weird."