Thomas Creek Deep Water Dopplebock

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

Date: 04/05/2003
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Athens

dark brown, strong chocolate malt aroma, strong malt flavor, hint of off-character tartness, touch of sweetness, very low bitterness
-------- /> Date: 04/29/2003
Words: ns

solid brown, thin fine beige head, sweet malt aroma, hint of smoke, rich dry malt flavor, bit of chocolate, touch of roasted, almost a porter
-------- /> Date: 09/10/2005
Source: chatt fest

good sweet malt aroma, rich malt flavor with some well placed smoke,
-------- /> Date: 04/13/2006
Source: ww

good rich malt, still a bit of smoke, maybe a hint of the dms that haunted the Athens Classic City fest

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

Very dark reddish-brown color. Head so thick and bone-coloured it looks like nitro. Chewy molasses aroma with alcohol and earth. Sweet and strong flavour. Stinging malts - earth and molasses mainly - bring a lot of intensity to the table. Certainly not as rounded as the better European examples but this is not without appeal.

(12oz. bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a small beige head. Aroma of caramel, raisins, light toast, and plum. Flavor of caramel malt, toasted bread, cocoa, and some molasses.

on tap-pours a tan head with dark brown-red color. Aroma is malty, nutty. Taste follows, almost, but isn’t quite right. Not for me.

Pours a very dark mahogany brown with thin wisps of tan head. Sweet, authentic dark caramel malty aroma has some toasty brown sugar notes and a touch of noble hops. Body starts sweet and malty before a more muddled, slightly buttery, milk chocolate finish. An ok doppelbock and fairly true to style, but could use some fine tuning.

Pours ruby brown with a fluffy head. Smells of chocolate, coffee, tarte overripe fruit, spring flowers. Taste is very tarte with an average compliment of roasty chocolate dotting the taste buds. As the beer warms, some cognac like qualities pop up only to give way to more tartness. Finish is of hot cocoa and marshmellows.

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.

Chestnut color with a taller mocha brown head. An interesting aroma amalgamation with spiced caramel and a touch of DMS. Cinnamon and cherries also in the nose. Fairly light feel, but it works for me, soft, gentle and smooth. Now if someone would have told me this was a winter lager, I may have been more open to this. Dry caramel malt, with some spiced nuts in the front and middle. Rather acrid and slightly biting in the finish. LInger is dry and loses a palate point for its sharpness. Somethings just not quite right here. THanks for the bottle Joel.