Thomas Creek Deep Water Dopplebock

Brewed by Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Chestnut body beneath a thick tan head. Sweet caramel/molasses aroma with notes of cherries, a touch of smoke, and cinnamon. Medium bodied. Slightly sweet flavor. A mediocre doppelbock.

Bottle. Pours a dark garnet with kind of tight tan head. The aroma is chocolate, faint almond, vanilla, and maybe some bread. The flavor is dark chocolate, vanilla bean, faint smoke, and a clean semi-sweet finish. However, a strange grassy taste develops as the temperature rises. Quite drinkable, but not superior by any means.

Bottle. Creamy tan head, clinging to the side of the glass, with a moderately dark brown color. Very nice initial flavor, mostly some sweet tangy yeast, sweet chewy maple and wood flavored malts, with a lot of chocolate character as well, and even some bourbon and butter notes. Yeast is a little too pronounced when it reaches a proper temperature, and the yeast itself it a little too muddy and lactic. Decent.

Thanks goes to Ross for this. poured a deep mahogany with a nice sized tan head that left some nice lacing. aroma, a ni ce sweet chocolate malt with dark cherries or is it choclate covered cherries? got some caramel when it warmed. Flavor sour cherries, bitter sweet chocolate, malt, alcohol.

Dark amber color with a nice frothy head. Aroma is malty and roasted. Flavor is malty but less so than I would expect from the style. Balanced by a fair amount of biterness, not bad, but again not what I was expecting from the style. Finishes lightly sweet and lightly bitter.

Roasted nuts in the nose, a moderate head, and a deep amber color. A smooth dopplebock with a nice blend of cream and caramel, but with bit too much roasted barley--almost burnt barley--in the finish. A good, but not a fantastic, brew.

Bottle thanks to CaptainCougar: Pours a dark brown with a big frothy head. Some decent lacing. Aroma, light chocolate (powdered hot cocoa mix). Flavor, lightly roasty, some chocolate, a light fruity bitterness. It’s very creamy, but light bodied. Somewhat dry on the finish. Pretty solid stuff.

Via CaptainCougar. The beer pours to a dark brown body with a thin cola head. The aroma is quite chocolatey with lits of semi-sweet morsels. Some dark cocoa powder. The flavor is semi-sweet chocolate and tart hops. Creamy mouthfeel that is roasty and lightly dry.