Tommyknocker Oaked Butt Head Bock

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

Name: Oaked Butthead Bock
Date: February 28, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip
Appearance: clear dark copper, fine beige head, sudsy lace
Aroma: big oak aroma, touch of caramel malt sweetness, plentry of earthyness keeping it pretty dry
Flavor: sweet vanilla and caramel flavor, plenty of oak for depth and balance, light bitterness in the finish
Overall: plain oak and bock works for me, flavored oak may have been too much for this beer
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 10/10/2008 Malt aroma. Golden bronze coloured strong in alcohol and rich on the palate. Crisp and bitter malt finish.

12oz bottle. Poured a deeper amberish/orangish color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of vanilla, oaky woodiness, caramel, and a little earthy. Tastes of caramel, vanilla, wood/oak, and toffee.

12oz bottle-pours a foamy tan head and amber color. Aroma is wood/grainy, rich medium malt-cocoa/caramel, dark fruit, alcohol. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, vanilla/wood, dark fruit esters, some alcohol.

Bottle... Clear, deep, dark copper lager with a small, fizzy, white head. Notes of burnt toffee, singed caramel and roasted nuts alongside hints of smoke and vanilla constitute the aroma. Full-bodied with a creamy mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Good balance. Sweet caramel, lightly smoky flavor with toffee and other roasted, boozy essences. Very decent bitterness. Lengthy, earthy, mildly sweet finish.

Copper color with a diminished beige head. Strange aromas. I first thought it was iodine, but now I’m smelling boston peanuts, peat and orange peels. Sugary caramel and lightly toasted nuts in the flavor. Some floral hops in the background. dryish finish and some caramel and lemon peel in the linger. Some oak flavors come through here and there, but the beer seems to simple to support it, like some oak aged light lagers I have had. Not enough malt depth to support the process. Starts to feel boozy, like a shot of Jack in a can of lite.

Bottle from World of Beer, FL. Poured a clear brown with a minimal light brown frothy head that mostly diminished with minimal lacing. Good toasted sweet nutty woody aroma. Medium to full body with a sticky texture. Good well balanced roasted malty woody flavor with a moderate smooth balanced bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Good drinkable beer.

Pours hazy deep rubyish with 2-fingers of creamy off-white head. Nose is caramel malt, oaky cherry, rauchy earthy, figgy. Tastes caramel malty, earthy, oaky, nutty, with red winey fruit, nuts, and a slight rauchy flavor that intensifies as it warms. This one is good.