Buckeye Frankenbock

Brewed by Buckeye Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Lakewood, Ohio USA

Pours a rich dark brown with a thick tan head. Aroma is sweet and full of caramel with a nice bock character. Good thick malty sweetness throughout and very true to style. A nice bock with plenty of emphasis on sweet malts.

Bottle, found for only $3.99 in Dayton, lucky me! Anyway, the beer has a nice reddish brown color with a initial large frothy head which fades into a msall covering and left good lacing on my glassware. The beer comes off with a big caramelized and toffee malt nose with additional prune and apple aroma. A bit of earthy ester and hazelnut as well. The taste starts with a caramel and sugary sweet forefront supported by a nice apple like twang. The finish displays some mocha, mild bitters, and a touch of nutty qualities. The feel is lively and yet a bit oily as well, makes this bier quite quaffable despite it size. Wow, worth the long wait. This is a great brew and a dug it completely. Sure it isn’t quite to style, but then maybe that is why I like it so. Get ya some.

This bottled brew poured a frothy head medium sized brown colored mostly diminishing bubbles. The body was semi-opaque softly carbonated and dark ruby red brown in color. The aroma was malty with a mild hoppiness and brown beer note. Its mouth feel was thick and smooth with a mild finish. The flavor was very interesting with an initial malty raisin flavor that mellowed in the finish.

Bottle. Poured a very small sized tan head with fine-small sized bubbles that fully diminished. Carbonated, mostly opaque with a reddish-brown hue. Malty, caramel, and chocolate aroma. Malt and caramel flavor with a smooth mouthfeel.

This beer is a dark amber/cola color with a thin beige head. Light lacing. Smoky aroma with malt and caramel. Medium body, with a strange earthy mix of sweet malt, caramel, chocolate and tart fruit. The finish is rather sweet. Overall this is a decent brew but is not up to snuff with the great Doppelbocks.

Tasted at our recent local Ratebeer gathering at Buckeye - on draft. This was extremely dark. I think it was served a little too cold - took a long while for the palate to thicken. Taste was incredibly smooth, sweet, chocolate malty-nes. They will be bottling this as a spring seasonal in May, 2003 - will try it and re-rate then.

This brew pours with a dark brown body topped by a medium thick off white head with a decent amount of lacing. Slightly sweet and malty aroma with caramel accents and a touch of alcohol. The flavor is slightly sweet and slightly malty with caramel notes, a touch of hops and a little alcohol. Medium bodied and smooth with a slight warming character.

For a doppelbock, this is pretty lightweight. It wasn't malty at all. There are many doppelbocks out there which are far better