Allgäuer Cambonator Doppelbock

Brewed by Allgäuer Brauhaus (Oetker Group)
Style: Doppelbock
Kempten, Germany

A red-brown beer with a fine light brown head. The aroma is swet malty with notes of roasted bread. And the flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt as well as roasted bread and ending on a dry note. An OK beer, but somewhat simple for a Doppelbock.

Big beige head atop a garnet-brown body, nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, cereal, some smoke. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, smoke, bready, light raisin. Fairly creamy, medium-full body. Very enjoyable doppelbock.

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown (with mahogany highlights) body with a large beige head. Aroma of raisins, bubble gum, and cola. Flavor of roasted malt and bread. Creamy palate.

Quickly fading light brown head tops the clear deep mahogany hue. Suprisingly buttery malts fit pretty well into the rich earthy and dark fruits aromatic components. Roasty for a german lager, offering plenty of dark berries, blackberries, prunes and sweet, drying earthy malt flavours. Surprisingly efficient carbonation, medium bodied. A stellar doppelbock take, combining the malt richness of the greats with the limited sweetness of the best.

Dark copper brown color with a dark tan lightly lacing head. Aroma is bursting with sweet malty bockiness. Chewy caramel and cookie dough flavor with a chocolate and noble hop finish. It's not Andechser or Celebrator, but this is a fine German doppelbock.

The aroma holds notes of whole grain bread and milk chocolate. This is a very clear, deep ruby/copper colored beer. The head is off-white in color, frothy and medium sized. It is mostly, but not entirely, diminishing with good lacing. Well balanced beer with plenty of sweet malt and pungent hops. Tawny port up front and buttermilk on the backside. Full-bodied with a silky mouthfeel. Soft carbonation. Long, mildly tart, tangy finish with a hint of clover at the wee end. Damn nice beer.

Cream to brown coloured medium head, rather stable; very dark brown beer with some disparate foxy highlights. Soft sweet nose, bit of dark chocolate, a tad soupy, parsley aroma. Sharpish dark malt taste with a dry-grainy touch. Ryebread, retronasal quite some sugar, but still overhung by a roasted malts flavour. Fruit sugar finish. Medium to well bodied, tad empty at the same time, since the restsugars seem to be all in filling the palate. Only after a long time sipping, a warming alcoholfeeling appears. Challenging beer - here’s one that has neither defaults, neither big plusses, and keeps me searching for hidden subtleties, as if I’m missing all its complexity. Strange. Dankeschön, Nat & Pivo.

Bottled. Deep reddish brown coloured. Aroma of caramel and bread and roasted malts. Sweet malty and bready flavour with some caramel notes. Medium to full bodied. Very pleasant.