Full Sail 21st Anniversary Doppelbock

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Hood River, Oregon USA

Pours a clear deep dark copper/chestnut brown color with mahogany edged when held to a light source. 2 finger off-beige frothy head that quickly dissolves into a thin ring and cap that last throughout. Roasty nutty caramel malt aroma with hints of spicy pepper and cloves, hops, bready yeast and chocolate. The roatiness is prominent but not overpowering like a coffee beer. The cloves and caramel malt flavors balance things out nicely. Smooth caramel malt body with a nice spicy clove presence. Hints of chocolate, bready yeast, banana, nut, toffee, roasty malts and sight hops. Alcohol very well masked making this a complex easy drinking dopplebock. The clove spiciness is very strong slightly overpowering the other flavors

Wish they’d make this a regular. Great beer all around and a very good value.

Bottle sample at Noogfest High 5 thanks to tronraner. Poured a darker amber with an off-white head. Sweet aromas of malt, raisin, and spices. The flavor found toasted malts with light spice. Medium body and sweet throughout.

Dark mahogany beer with a tiny ring of lace - nose of caramel, cherry, raisin, toffee, some coppery/metallic character - fairly smooth, moderate carbonation, creamy mouthfeel - flavor of caramelized sugars, fruity esters, a bit of tart cherry quality - some leafy bitterness on the tail end, and well as a metallic tang and mild acidity left lingering on the tongue - some caramel and toffee on the end as well - somewhat flawed, but okay.

Bottle at Noogfest High 5. Poured clear brown color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with excellent lacing. Good toasted malt and yeast aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Good balanced bittersweet malty flavor with a moderate smooth balanced finish of moderate duration. Good doppelbock.

bottle pours orange/amber, beige head. aroma malty caramel, grassy herbal nose and yeasty. taste, malty, light smoke, fruity; raisins, caramel notes. Finish has hints of hops with a nice warming abv. Overall palate has a herbal medicinal touch with some peppery spices.

Date: July 04, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip
Appearance: clear dark amber, fine beige head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet dark caramel aroma, lots of earthyness, touch of smokeyness
Flavor: sweet dark caramel flavor, well balanced with a big earthyness, a bit of candy sweetness manages to emerge, light bitter finish
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+/4

22oz. bomber served in a pilsner glass. Poured a dark copper with a finger of light tan head. Malty aroma, caramel comes out as it warms. Also a fair amount of American hops in the nose. Medium to full bodied. There is plenty of malt here, but you don’t get the malt complexity of a good German dopplebock. Some sweetness. Hop bitterness makes it a very American take on the style. Don’t go into this beer expecting German Dopplebock, or you will be disappointed. Just enjoy it as a good beer. It has more in common with an old ale to me.