Tommyknocker Butt Head Bock

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: Doppelbock
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Very sweet aroma similar to the other Tommyknocker brews. A brown body with very little head. Heavy malts in the aroma and taste, good hops in the ending.

Clear dark cherry color with a thin off-white head. Sweet molassas aroma and a very mild sweet molassas flavor.

Muddy brown with an orange tint. Off white head with sediment floating. Aroma is malty, caramel, bread, and some chocolate. Flavor is sweet chocolate, brown sugar, bread, and caramel. The chocolate taste quickly dissapears and gives way to an orange flavor that replaces it. Solid body with a good mouthfeel.

This is good. Very much like Full Sail Boardhead or Lagunitas Brown Shugga. I am surprised they call it a bock; they might have called it an ale or a barleywine. This beer is opaque and brown. The head lasts as a thing ring, and there is a lot of sediment, especially for a style that so often has little or no sediment at all. There is an aroma of brown sugar, citrus-hops, and fermenting orange juice. Flavor is very sweet, but this has only a hint of the standard bock carmel and sweet malt. Instead, there is more sugar and fruit. Fairly thick. Quite good, especially for the low price, but not very bocky.

Smelled like warm honey-glazed bread. Lusterous amber color with a mostly fading tan head. It has a pretty shine to it. Mildly musky perfume flavors in the fore followed by a fruity sweetness then a caramel sweetness then some alcohol. The middle is mostly a continuation of the malts and the finish reminds me of liquor spiced dark fruits. I have to be honest and say i really liked the overall beer here a good bit.

Dark mahogany/brown, never would have known it was 8.2% no way did I think that while drinking this, pretty standard once again like all their others, nice caramel sweetness with the roasty malt flavor.

Amber gold pour. The aroma is sweet and malty but with a hint of alcohol spiciness as well. This same spicy (fruity) note carries into the body - working against the deliciously creamy caramel malts. Whether it is the alcohol, Hallertau hops or yeast esthers causing the spiciness, the note throws this off kilter for me. I would love to lay down some of this to age and see if it mellows into something truly beautiful.

Sweet, chocolate and sweet. Good to cover up the alcohol flavor. Still like other tommyknockers, the watered down taste remains. Not bad for a doppelbock.