Full Sail 21st Anniversary Doppelbock

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

From the bottle: Poured a dark amber with a fairly decent head that dissipated quickly but left some strong lacing. Good aroma…malty and sweet. Good thick mouth-feel. Interesting spice in the taste along with the malt that I was smelling earlier as well as some of that 8% ABV. I’ve not had a lot of doppelbocks but I think this one encouraged me to try a few others to compare.

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

Understated but very well done. Sharp, uniform sparkling deep brown liquid. Medium aromas of toffee and apple. The hops are a clean bitter and backgrounded but are come into play in both aroma and in the finish. No oxidized flavors or aromas common to the style in European examples. You can taste the quality malts.

22oz. Bomber Pours a very nice clean/clear golden brown color, nice carbonation, nice little fizzy tan head, with some nice sticky lacing afterwards. The nose is sweet, malty, very slight toffee, slight spice. The taste is sweet, malty, with some toffee/spice. Medium body, smooth, slightly bitter/dry finish. Very drinkable, this is a very tasty brew, I like it.

I am perpetually underwhelmed by just about every Full Sail offering as was prepared to be for this one, given its one of my favorite styles, but they put together a winner of a drink. Big toasted malt backbone with lots of peppery spice notes and small molasses hints. Smooth creamy mouthfeel and a nice spiced hop finish. Really welll constructed drink and the bottle art was wonderful.

Pours with an opaque dark brown body topped by a thin to medium thick ehad with some lacing. It is sweet and malty with notes of dark fruit, a light roastiness and some alcohol esters. Medium to full bodied, well carbonated and a touch warming.

Bomber. Second time I’ve bought this beer, I enjoyed it so much the first time I didn’t bother taking notes as I knew I’d buy it again. And $4 for a bomber? Awesome. The goodness of this beer is a combination of the frothy but light body with a malt-forward, sticky, slightly sweet maple and smooth chocolate malt resins. Malt-heavy, sweetness isn’t overdone, it’s delicate and quiet, turning slightly spicy and peppery in the finish. Just outstanding. I fully admit I’m a Full Sail fanboy, but it’s not simply blind adoration for a hometown favorite, it’s the product of a decade of drinking Full Sail products and developing a real appreciation for their house character, so much that it’s something I look for in other beer but rarely find. So yeah, I’m a fan, but there’s an honest reason why. The house character, the yeast, the body of this doppelbock are all outstanding. I love it.

Definitely loved the Oktoberfest maltiness of this brew. There was a nutty and caramelly flavor to it. Very rich and full in flavor. I loved it.