Left Hand Smoked Goosinator Doppelbock

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Smoked
Longmont, Colorado USA

Rating #183 for this beer.
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2007 Bottle Conditioned

1/10/2009: Left Hand Smoked Goosinator Doppelbock Lager... Aroma: Sweet and smoky! Nice blend sugary toasted and caramelized malts with a slightly meaty smokiness. Appearance: Attractive red-brown color; mostly clear; lively carbonation; fine bubbles; frothy beige head. Flavor: Wow! It’s rich and sweet and smoky! Fruity caramel gives way to sweet turbinado sugar to smoke to cocoa bean/mocha-like finish; lightly roasty overall. Palate: Medium-full and very smooth. Overall: Very well-balanced beer; Very well-done; Better and more smoky than LH SmokeJumper!

1 Pint 9.36 fl. oz. corked and caged bottle from Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio. Score: 7/4/8/3/17=3.9
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2007 Bottle Conditioned

8/13/2009: Left Hand Goosinator 2007... Aroma: Applewood smoked crystal malt; great sweet-smoky blend!. Appearance: Really nice brown color, bug and fluffy beige head. Flavor: Mild to moderate deep smoke, somewhat oxidized that works really well this this beer; hints of chocolate. Palate: Medium-bodied, smooth. Overall: Still holding up really well for the age. I like how the smoke is coming out more.

750 mL corked and caged bottle shared by metmayhem. Thanks! Total Score: 3.6

2007 edition. Hazy brown colored brew. Smoked aroma. Milky thick, smoky, malty, sugar. Creamy.

courtesy of Allen; 2007 vintage - slightly reddish-brown colour with a poor head retention; solid smoky aroma of bacon and cold ashes; medium-bodied at best (particularly failing short on the end of the tongue); late and very bitter with a long hoppy smoky finish - very weird and lacking of complexity and body

Bottle from Easy E. Shared at SL. Thanks brother!. Sugary brown in color. Nice head. Smokey aroma. Taste is smokier then the nose. Lots of roasted malts and brown sugar. For a bottle that was produced in 2007.. this was really good. Easy drinking...Thanks sparky27

Bottled sample via and shared with oakbluff. Amber in colour with medium to strong carbonation. Moderate smoke aromas combine with notes of rich malts, booze, and butter toffee. Quite boozy and malt heavy in the mouth, with limited hop or smoke notes. Medium bodied. More of a doppelbock with a hint of smoke, althouth it was a fairly old bottle. Not bad. Lots of sediment.

THanks, bro! Pours a dirty and cloudy brown color with a medium off-white cloudy head. Aroma is summer sausage, smoke, caramel malts, and some metallic characters. Taste is caramel and toffee malts, with a medium smoke taste, and slight bitterness.

2007. Pours a dark caramel color. Aroma of smoked peat, cashews, and caramel malt. Taste is smoke, caramel malt, light hop fruitiness and sweet malt. A bit of a mess if you ask me. Nothing balances causing the palate to be a bit lopsided.

Bottle. Brownish coloured. Sweet malty beer with moderate smoke character. Not bad but not one of the best smoked beers either.