Capitol City Double Amber

Brewed by Capitol City Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Washington, Washington DC USA

Growler at PilsnerPeter’s Spring Gathering. Pours a hazy brown with a light white head. Nose is all sweet with plum, caramel, and chocolate. Malty, and finishes very bitter.

Growler at Peter’s NY gathering, shared by argo0 - I quite liked this one - a lot of oat and strong hop bitterness - roasted nuts and tobacco - a little leafy and vegetal - the back end has a lot of dark bread flavors, pumpernickel, rye, caraway - odd but tasty.

Growler. Aroma of citrus hops and lightly roasty caramel malt. Flavor again straightforward on both fronts, semi-big on both the hops and the caramel, some dusty earth in there was well, maybe a bit of a brown sugar note. Pretty good stuff.

Name: Double D
Date: 10/12/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, GABF

muddy burnt orange, strong dark caramel malt aroma with heavy earthy and citrus hops, big dark caramel flavor, lots of hop flavor, nice sweetness is balanced by the hops,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Listed as Double D at the downtown location. It appears as a murky and bready brown colored body with a tan head. The first taste is rough, heavy on toast and bread flavors, and it’s chewy and thick, with plum and walnut and bread crust. Very nutty and toasty, actually, and heavy on the palate, with some toasty and dry hops as well. The nose smells strongly of bread crust as well, with some alcohol and husky grains noticed as well, along with a rather large dose of a chewy, cherry flavored malty body, reminding me of the same flavors found in Stone Double Bastard. Overall it’s big a sticky and chewy, and that’s about all it has going for it.

Sampled on draught, at the Shirlington, VA location. This beer is a bigger, bolder, version of their Amber Waves, which is a "steam beer", or California common, by style. Pours to a slightly hazy, caramel color, with a thick, creamy, white head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose is fragrant, with lots of good citrus and piney hops, paired with good sweet and caramel malt, and good, fruity, estery aromas. The palate is firm, with lots of good caramel and sweet malt flavor, and really nice plummy and fruity esters. This beer finishes with more really good malt and fruit flavors, then ends with some good citrus hop bitterness that lingers. Dangerously drinkable at 8% abv. Delicious beer, just packed with flavor. Makes a nice beer to sip and relax with at the bar, and makes a great after work coctail.

Draught at Downtown location during RBSG DC 06 Weekend Pegged as "Double D" when I went here. Hazy amber, light head and lacing. Nose of fresh dry hops, amber malt and a nice creamy malt-ness. The flavor is balanced, citrusy, grassy, herbal, caramelly, moderate alcohol. The finish is rich and chewy. Nice double red or amber, or whatever.

Cask at Capitol Hill. No head on a dark brown beer. Nose is almost all malt. A very good hop taste up front and a little bit of a punch at the end.