Three Floyds Decimator Doppelbock

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Munster, Indiana USA

This is an awesome beer. Pours a dark black brown color with amber highlights and a light caramel colored medium sized head. Nose is chocolate, caramel, dark malt, and sugar. Taste is the same as the nose and is sweet and the mouthfeel is chewy and sticky. This is a great doppelbock and at 9.5% the alcohol content is invisible.

8 oz. draft snifter at 3Fs. Deep brown color, no head after a minute in a glass. Malty smell, of course. Light Tootsie Roll fudge taste as advertised. Fresh yeast taste kind of hold it back from total excellence. Bitterness is delivered in unusual prickly bubbles right on my lips instead of the tongue. Slight notes of cherry and Raisinettes arise after a while, then a smooth prune juice impression. Bitter pinprick bubbles stay on to the end.

Extremely good. Full of flavor, chocolate, coffee, caramel, dark fruit, etc. I enjoyed this extremely too much to have to drive back to Ohio.

Draft. Garnet/Brown color with small tan head. Roasted caralmel in aroma. Sweet caramelly, dark fruit flavors with an earthy hop finish.

In short: Rich, full and highly drinkable Doppelbock. One of the best ever.
How: Tap at brewpub
The look: Dark mahogany body with a small tan head
In long: Luscious dark caramel, plenty of figs and dates, some chocolate. Body is as full as it can be, this is almost a meal. A big condensed fruit cake will a little chocolate topping. A truckload of leafy hops provide a fresh “green” finish. I went through my glass in about 5 minutes. A strong beer like that should not be so highly drinkable, that’s just too dangerous. Just too highly drinkable, the dudes at 3F probably had a party with that thing on tap all night and the day after they came up with the name.

tap at brewery. mahogony pour with lacing. dark fruit, malty aroma. rich malts, bitter, salty(strange), dark fruits. thick body. I enjoyed it more as it warmed.

DLD ’08: Pours a hazy brown with an off white head. Aroma, fruits, caramel, roasted notes, toffee. Flavor, caramel, fruity notes, roasted malts, toffee, some nutty hints, and earthy hops. Pretty solid.

Bottle… DLD ‘08… Mostly clear, burnt orange lager with a large, wispy, white head. Great, chunky retention. Notes of golden raisins, fuzzy fruits, cocoa and citrus fruits make up the nose. Full-bodied with a lightly creamy mouthfeel. Rich chocolate malt and caramel malt flavor with balance provided by inconspicuous hops. The finish is sweet, but also fairly clean.