Ukiah Emancipator

Brewed by Ukiah Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Ukiah, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass

Pours chestnut brown with a thin off white head. The aroma is bready malts with a good dose of dark, sweet fruit. Lots of raisins, plums, cherries, figs, etc. The flavor is the same. Very sweet with a strong alcohol burn in the back of the throat.

on tap-pours an off white head and mahogany color. Aroma is mild sweet medium malt, fruit. Taste is sweet medium malt-anise, fruit-cherry/plum. Some syrup on mouth feel. Nicer at cellar temperature.

Poured dark amber brown, caramel malts, dark fruits, sweet potatoe, little chocolate, little hops.

Magnum bottle from 2005 bought at the brewery. Pours a hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a malty caramel aroma with hints of dark fruit and chocolate. Sweetish very malty caramel and dark fruit flavor with some hints of chocolate. Has a sweetish malty dark fruit finish.

On tap in Ukiah. Aromas of caramel malt, whiskey,woodsmoke and chocolate. Darkest garnet but visible. negligible head. a little oily and flat in the mouth. Complex flavors of molasses, chocolate, roasted malt-- cant find the alcohol. bocks can be a bit murky and still be very good.

[Tap - North American Organic Brewers Festival] A good dark ful bodied Dopple Bock. This had a very heavy feel to it and was very full of flavor. The strong alochol was in this for sure. Great brew. It will only get better with age.

Nice hoppy aroma, some bathwater, sharp hoppiness