Capital Dark Doppelbock

Formerly brewed at Capital Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Pours a dark brown, small off whtie head. aroma of nuts, cherries and cream. Flavor is rich and choclately. Reminds me of choclate cake with vanilla frosting. Delicious. Creamy and malty.

From a bottle in a snifter while sitting around with a couple friends...this beer poured a reddish-brown color, without any sort of haze and a very small head. Aroma is rich malt, fruity liquor, and candy and really fills up my nose. Flavor is sweet, burnt caramel with spice, brandy and raisin undertones. It becomes sort of dry and alcoholic in the throat and begs me for another sip. This was a really delicious beer that I could drink all night but also powerful enough that I shouldn’t.

Beer pours rich looking caramel amber with a fairly retained tan colored head. Aromas are caramel, alcohol, and sweet rich malt. Awesome dppple flavor. This is what I was looking for from Autumnal Fire. Beautiful initial malt sweetness, right in the ballpark with Celebrator. A bit of dryness in the finish is all that keeps this from being almost perfect. More people need to try this. It is delicious.

On tap at the brewery. So glad to see this back! Evidently a labeling problem kept it out of production for a year +. Nice light brown head, beautiful deep brown color. Aroma of raisins and scones. Taste is first hot then sweet, long lingering finish. Drier than in past years, making it more quaffable but loses some of the complxity. Still my favorite at the Capital. Makes winter almost bearable.

Pours a small, but lovely, butterscotch-colored head, slowly simmering, with a color dark brown/near black. Aroma is a jolt of dark fruits and spices, anise, cloves. Great bitterness, with mighty malt to back it up. Reminiscent of a barleywine. A bit too thick in mouthfeel, but overall, a good, rewarding, wintertime warm-up.

Slikwily’s reading my mind when he’s sending me Capital beers. They’re great and I’m sure this will be another great brew. Licorice, chocolate, roasty, malty complex flavor. Excellent!!! If there are only 19 ratings for this one including mine, lotta people missing out on awesome beer!!! Can’t say anything bad about this one. Terrific. Big props to Kevin for this hidden gem.

2001. Light amber with a thin, white head. Clean malty aroma of caramel, toffee, raisin and molasses. Fairly moderate body with some sticky sweetness. Remarkably drinkable with clean, sweet malty flavors. An excellent doppelbock, though not as dark as you might guess from the name.

hazy brown/amber body. rich, malty nose. caramel and ripe fruits. fairly strong. good malt complexity. grainy, lightly roasted well drawn out finish. full bodied and lively on the palate. detectable alcohol character, very detectable