Schloss Eggenberg Doppelbock Dunkel

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Bottle. Ruby pour with small cola like head. Dark fruit and maple syrup aroma. Flavor is one dimensional, hampered by more alcohol than an actual hop bitter finish.

Bottle: You could almost taste the malt and hopps upon opening the bottle with your nose. This brew poured an clear, auburn color with minimal head. While in tasted very good and some will prefer the bite of hopps it has, I found it just a touch bitter for my taste. Good for sure, but to me not great.

Bottled. Poured translucent iced tea brown with a nice copper shimmer.. short cap of beige head. The aroma picked up toffee, chocolate, and raisin sweetness with a bit of herbal accent.. deep and inviting. The flavor had drawn caramel and toffee sweetness with a little coffee bitterness and sharper boozy notes hitting toward the back. Medium-bodied on the palate but it felt rather empty at times.. not a good transition to the sharper finish.. OK.

[Bottle] Pours a really nice ruby brown with a small, quickly diminishing off white head. Aroma is nice and malty, with some raisins. Very little hops in the aroma. Nice caramel notes, with a bit of hop bitterness. Fairly light mouthfeel initially, but a watery finish. Decent, but just a little too thin for my taste.

Pours a nice dark brown with a hint of red and a bubbly beige head that dissipates fairly quickly. Very sweet malty aroma with toffee notes. Similar sweet malty flavor balanced with a roasted nuttiness, some molasas, hops and a warming alcohol finish. Pretty good beer but there are better doppelbocks with smaller price tags.

33cl bottle from Total Wine (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark brown to black with an off-white one finger head that settles slowly. Smells of malt, candy sugar, chocolate, coffee, ripe dark fruit (raisins, prunes, sweet plums), toffee and coffee. Flavor is much of the same -- sweet malt, ripe dark fruit, malt, barley, prunes and sweet plums. Medium-bodied with a smooth, candy sugar finish. Nice.

This bottled brew from Indianapolis, IN poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized mostly diminishing bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The aroma was mildly vinous with sweet malty notes. The mouth feel was mildly tingly from start to finish. The flavor contained notes of sweet vinous hops and dark malt.

Bottle (and a low fill line). Very dry nose, brown sugar and light ash with steady roast. Red berry and muddled fruit with caramel and dark pits. Dark ruby pour (essentially black) with some slightly noisy hard-bop carbonation and a tan head that fades post haste. Taste is dry with a good deal of booze showing through (more than 8.5%, it seems, including numbness), hard roast and nuts with cigarette ash and a musty dry hoppy finish. Ooh, cheeks even warmed! Felt like blushing. Light bitterness with dark, dirty earthen tones. Full body but not fat. Some notes of wood and a slight herbal inflection. Peppery caramel. Whew, top-shelf! But watch out, dangerous. A harsh, mature sipper, and definitely worth the effort.