Wagner Valley Sled Dog Doppelbock

12 oz bottle. Clear cola with a beige head. Nose is caramel and dates. Smooth and creamy with a slight tang. Taste is toasty caramel, raisin and hay. Finishes with bits of burnt sugar, grass and tobacco. Pretty good.

Pours brown with a tan head. Smells of dark fruit, some chocolate, earthy, peppery. Tastes sweet and caramelly with some dark fruity hints and a peppery splash on the finish.

An amber pour with a light white head and lace. Aroma of light brown sugar. Flavor is a musty like brown sugar as well. Medium bodied but just a tad thin. An above average beer from a style I like.

Tasty caramel nose. Sweet underneath. A little alcohol in the nose too. Pours brown with some whispy foam. Caramel, earth, a little tangy with alcohol in the finish. Dry earthy lingering on palate.

12 oz. thanks, suzygreenberg! pours a clear and very dark brown. sweet caramel nose, with some earth and wet leaves. also maybe a bit of solvent. tangy caramel earth and leaves on the mid palate, gets a little toasty. solventy finish.

Burnt sienna, absolutely no head. It sat there for a few moments and others swear there used to be a head on it, but I don’t believe them. There isn’t even the reminents of head...there are simple no signs that head had ever been present. I also don’t smell anything really...there is an inch of space between the beer and the top of this pint glass but I don’t detect much, maybe a bit of caramel and mushy apples. Hollow maltiness in the flavors showcasing a note of nuts here and there..some caramel...slightly astringent mouthfeel..the maltiness is kind of sloppy and not really defined...crisp greeny balancing hops are adequate...but the malts fall flat so nothing really excites. That being said, there’s certainly nothing offensive here and it was quite drinkable.

Bottle. Pours a clear dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma of vegetal notes, bready malt, toffee. Flavor of bready malt, some cola notes. Wow, this is the same beer as the Amber Lager (maybe a little better? It hardly matters really). Pretty lackluster overall. 6/4/6/3/11 (3.0/5)

Bottle. Strikingly similar (and actually lighter in color) than their Amber Lager I just had/poured down the drain. Sweet, bready malts, soda syrup, and way too much carbonation. Not quite as overpoweringly soda as the Amber, but still quite poor.