Dark Horse Perkulator Coffee Dopplebock

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Marshall, Michigan USA

Thanks to Mike for sharing this. Vegetal, smoky, cinnamon, calm caramel flavor, with a heady smack of liquid smoke. Only a little coffee. A bit muddy, yeasty, dirty. Not the best.

Thanks jtw. Pours a murky, muddy brown color with a decent but quickly dissipating offwhite head. Aroma of caramel malt and some roasted coffee. Flavor is caramel up front giving way to a chalky chocolate flavor. Faint coffee flavor as well. Medium bodied but quick on the finish. One dimensional in the flavor and the coffee doesn’t come through quite as much as it’s name would imply. Not that that is a bad thing just a little unexpected.

Tea colored pour with a 1 finger off-white head that fades quickly to a thin layer. Roasty chocolate and coffee aroma with notes of bread, toffee, a hint of dark fruit and some spices. Coffee dominates the flavor with a hint of dark fruits, spice, smoke, bread and a little nuttiness. Medium-thin body with soft carbonation.

Aroma like caramel coffee. Nice pronounced coffee flavor does not dominate the sweet maltiness. Unique, well executed combo, but I am not totally wowed by it’s complexity.

12oz bottle, courtesy of a trade from a while ago?? Thanks! Pours a clear, bright orange-amber color; light tan head with patchy fine-bubbled lacing. Tons of coffee and caramel in the aroma, though the coffee dominates: decently roasted with chocolate notes; slight greenness. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: pleasant, chewy caramel and nougat beneath a strong roasted coffee presence; nice balance between the coffee and the creamy doppelbock character, though the coffee itself could be better: slightly green and closer to Folger’s than anything more intricate. Still, reasonably tasty stuff, and I don’t normally care all that much for coffee-infused beers. Medium finish showing caramel and dough; coffee coming through as roast.

Bottle, have waited for this for a while. Room-filling sweet malt and overabundant coffee bitterness, roasted malt and grain and a smokey, peaty touch. Dark ruby pour with a lacing, thickly rocky tan head. Taste is a thick Doppelbock malt profile with a little alcohol showing, dark beany espresso, ashy with hard-bop roast and heavy, aggressive carbonation. Sticky and lightly metallic, dry and earthy aftertaste. Spice is in the back, way under the toffee and light smoke. This is an utter trainwreck of clashing styles, and ultimately very confusing; however, the DB appears to be much better than the coffee component.

On tap @ Coles Buffalo NY. Medium brown color, almost rootbeer-ish looking. Coffee espresso aroma. Coffee real evident in taste. Nice mouthfeel, medium to light body. Different but decent

12oz from mibirder - thanks, Sean! My bottle doesn’t have the death metal label, alas. The pour is dark amber, with only modest carbonation that yields a faint head and only a hint of lacing. Slightly dusty cinnamon seems to mix in with the strong chocolate malts in the nose and the relatively understated coffee smells. Nice soft toffee and biscuity malts in the taste. But, much like Ithaca’s Kaffinator, this just doesn’t seem like a doppelbock. An enjoyable beer for what it is.