Kaufbeuren Buronator Doppelbock

Brewed by Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren
Style: Doppelbock
Kaufbeuren, Schwaben/Bayern, Germany

Bottled. A dark amber beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of spices, perfume, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of hard burnt caramel, pumpernickle bread, and alcohol, as well as some spicy notes, leading to a dry finish where the alcohol dries out the palate.

Bottle 50 cl. Pours a clear warm orangey brown with a light brown head. Sweet aroma of roasted malt and pumpernickel. Quite full-bodied with sweet accents of roasted malt, pumpernickel and dried fruit. Subdued bitterness. Excellent Doppelbock. 100709

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep hazzlenut brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted breadish, light caramel note. Smooth dark breadish and caramel/toffee flavoured. Rather crisp and vibrant hops balance. Smooth roasted breadish finish.

Bottle 33cl. @ home.
Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, dusty nutty, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091102]

Name: St. Martin Doppelbock
Date: December 03, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: clear dark brown, scant beige head
Aroma: sweet chocolate malt aroma with a light smokey character
Flavor: rich chocolate malt flavor, light bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Kind of a dull chestnut brown colour. Brown sugar, malt and molasses aroma. Sweet, earthy, molasses malt character. The body is fairly light for the style. There is a bit of late alcohol showing. A fairly simple example.

(50cl bottle, labeled as St. Martin Dunkler Doppelbock, 8/6/07) Small tan head atop clear dark brown body. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel/molasses, some smoke. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, some burnt, dark fruit, light smoke. Creamy medium-full body, light alcohol burn. (6/3/6/3/12)

(11/14/03) Brown black body with small, quickly dissipating tan head. Aroma is sweet, caramel with some anise. Taste is caramel and anise, medium sweet, finishing with light alcohol burn. Body is medium, a bit light for the style. (7/4/6/3/12)

Bottle sampled on 12/2/06: Pours a deep dark copper with a thin, wispy-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramel malt and a touch of bready German lager yeast. Starts with a nice, sticky caramel malty flavor and some lightly chocolatey complexity. Smooth, yet full-bodied and authentic.