Fish Tale Detonator Doppelbock

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Doppelbock
Olympia, Washington USA

sparse aroma, malt and saltiness. Pours a dark opaque brown with a thin white head. Alcohol, sweetness, licorice. Some creaminess as well

The first beer I ever loved! Smooth and strong with a complex but balanced flavor. You can taste the oak and feel the texture but it doesn’t dominate the malty sweetness or the Espresso/Chocolate tones.

Dark brown with a moderate tan head generating clingy lace. Huge aromas of rich caramel and chocolate milk. Chocolaty caramel flavours predominate, with an essence of dried fruit, raisins maybe. Moderately heavy mouthfeel. You cannot tell that this is 8% alcohol! Very very good.

22oz Bottle. Poured a dark brown with a very generous light brown head. Aroma is an expected malty aroma. Flavor is nutty. A nutty taste that starts from the beginning. Oak notes are also in the taste. The oak taste creates a dry finish. Not something memorable however a decent brew.

22 oz Bottle Pours out a nice dark brown with a tan head. Very nice and rich. Also some nice pit fruit. Thanks Indian_Red.

22 oz. Bottle: Clear brown color with a stiff light brown head. Sweet malty aromas. I could detect the alcohol. Nice flavor - sweet with a mild bitterness in the aftertaste. You can taste the alcohol and dark brown sugar with a thin crisp finish. Nice. Props to Indiana_Red.

Dark ruby hued beer out of the 12 oz bottle with a whispy beige head. Dark sweet nose of dried fruit and alcohol. This beer blossoms as it warms with lots of dark fruity flavors on top of burnt caramel and molasses sugars. Very nice double bock, with all the complex malt sweetness and not overpowered by the alcohol.

Bottle into Duvel tulip glass one night in the summer of 2005, sitting at the kitchen table in Tajunga, CA, with cquiroga, swilling brews and talking shop. The shop was Fish Tale Detonator Doppelbock, and the consensus was: dope beer. Like barley exhaust wafting from the pipes of a mountain-stream brewery, the aroma funnelled up from the glass, leavened with the malty and oakey smells of delightfully smoky bread. Dark ruby amber glowing hazily in the glass. Head was a meager beige that couldn’t stay alive very long; after it mostly disipated, it left little wispy beige tracings on the surface that made me think of Greek fortune tellers examining coffee grounds (I think there is a market here for telling fortunes in diminished beer foam, we should look into it). Lacing is slow to cascade and sandy in texture. After warming a while (still haven’t tasted it yet), the aroma evokes a peaty whiskey alcohol. Mouthfeel is chewy silky sweet with some alcohol astringency. Flavor starts like a roasty version of Nutella (kind of nutty, kind of chocolate), transitioning into a full dry roast in the finish. Undercurrents of prune and malty fruits are smooth, transition into the finish with tar and tobacco. Oak in this one is a great and subtle addition; it doesn’t dominate, but adds to the fruits and the peat both. A good light sweetness carries througout. My life is better for having tasted this.