Wagner Valley Sled Dog Trippelbock

This was very smooth in taste and very full bodied. Poured a nice brown color with a nice white head. Flavor was very malty without much hop flavor and something I would recommend trying. UPDATE: 1/26/07 This beer aged so well that I have to give it a perfect score. Incredible depth in flavor, very malty, balanced, and impressive. Unbelievable beer if you can find it. My bottle was about 3 or 4 years old.

Update: 750 from Bacchus in New Putz. This was probably 2-years old, and the last bottle they had. Boy oh boy was it good. Massive sherried malt nose and explosive sticky malt flavor. Fantastic! Score is now the base-line.

750 ml bottle. Dark yellow brown with a white head. Arma of alcohol and malt, and a touch of fruityness. Malty and slightly thinner than the Doppel, with a nice alcohol burn. Interesting brew and not bad. 6-4-7-4-14

Crystal clear russet. Creamy tan head subsides to a thick, slightly sticky ring. Soggy plum skins and wax aroma alongside vaguely bready/meaty malts. Remarkably clean alcohol amid soft notes of cinnamon, roasted malt, toffee, and phenols. Soft body. Velvety carbonation. Caramelized sugars firm up the body. Thick, plummy malt overlay tempers the spicy alcohol at the center. Scarce hop presence is muffled by the supple maltiness and caramelized sugars, throughout. Finishes with a soothing blend of creamed malts, spicy alcohol, and candied currants before a plum, olive, rum-soaked fruitcake backslide. Vivacious trail of lightly toasted malts, beet sugar, and tangy cedar. In hindsight, this has gobs of wonderful malt flavors, along with boatloads of sweetness, which never becomes intolerable. Textbook rendition of a suped-up doppelbock. Gracias, jah noth!

Shockingly good. Nose certainly has some ’soy sauce’ to it but that is covered by a woody fruitiness I can’t quite place. Perhaps slightly reminiscent of something like Goudenband but with a lot more malt. Caramel, slight alcohol but nothing that would suggest 11% Flavor is Caramel, fruit, rich malt, some hops. A bit of alcohol in the finish. Nice creamy mouthfeel, low but present carbonation. I really need to buy more of this.

Bottle. Thanks to jsquire for sharing this one. Poured a small tan head that was mostly lasting, fine-large sized bubbles, transparent, and a reddish brown hue. Malty, caramel, sweet, and fruity aroma. Flavor was sweet, malty, caramel, some fruityness, and vinuous. Palate was smooth and enjoyable. Medium body. Worth a try!