Ettaler Curator Doppelbock

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Ettal
Style: Doppelbock
Ettal, Germany

Bottle. OMG!! This is my new favorite beer!! You take the best elements of all doppelbocks and add a touch of the great abt/quadruples and this is what you get. Wonderful dark color with a slightly sweet flavor that reminds me of Christmas, (Must be the time of the year). Ok, I pray this one stays in our area. I believe I might be drinking it for years to come. This one is WAY underrated. Highly recommended . (Rerated Because I had better beers since)

tap at Trappeze in Athens. Pours amber with thin head. Aroma is very malty and chocolate and fruity.. Taste, lots of malts with a thick mouthfeel that has plenty of caramel - molasses. Beer is smooth with an almost sweet honeyish, dark fruity feel on the palate. Finish is dry and hoppy. There is also a very faint trace of smoke.

Aroma is a massive malty, spice bomb, with cinnamon and ginger foremost, some kirsch, also pheffernusse cookies, garnet, pours a fair sized toffee head. Roasty malt, brazil nuts, demerara sugar, birch, pitfruits galore, touch of allspice. Full bodied, extremely well balanced, complex, bitter as the be jeez, the closest beer I have had to Ayinger Celebrator, and that is saying something folks. Wonderous exclamation point goes here

Dark amber. Medium creamy head. Aroma: Caramel, fruits. Flavor: Caramel, toasted malt, bread. Chewy. Finish. Sweet fruits. This is a great beer, perhaps under-rated a bit.

Just one massive dopplebock! I’m going off memory here but I remember it well. Pours a very dark brown almost black with some good fluffy tan head. Flavor is certainly on the sweet side with lots of molasses and port flavors some fig and raisin. Aroma was big and full of toasted malt with some sweet and spicy notes. A little too much alcohol is present in the flavor, but the beer retains a silky mouthfeel and not a lot of harshness from the alcohol.

Funky, lots of fruit, like apple pie up front, mild acidity, almost like a sour brown. The body was very thin and the tartness was not what I was expecting for the style. Pours dark brown with a thin beige head. I just think this beer had something wrong with it, not awful, but not like a doppelbock.

Pours dark brown with burgandy highlights and fair, but unsustainable big bubble light tan head. Flavors of rum soaked fruit, toffee, anise, and some alcohol. Medium full very chewy body has a soft mouthfeel. Alcohol warming finish is not offensive at all. Not that expensive and good for style, winning combo in my book.

500ml Bottle: Aroma of figs, port, light chocolate, toffee, light coffee, caramel, light molasses, nuts, dark malts, and brown sugar. Poured light brown/copper in color with a small to medium-sized, dense, fizzy, beige head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is lightly sweet. Tastes of dark malts, chocolate, coffee, molasses, brown sugar, light caramel, toffee, slight tar, and toasting. Medium to full body. Smooth, slightly oily texture. Soft to average carbonation. Sweet, malty, brown sugar finish.