Wagner Valley Sled Dog Doppelbock

Brewed by Wagner Valley Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Lodi, New York USA

A great doppelbock. Very dark and malty and a wonderful domestic sample of this very German style.

This bottled brew sampled at JSquires home poured a small sized head of frothy fine to medium sized mostly diminishing off-white colored bubbles that left behind an unnoted lacing. The body contained soft carbonation, was transparent and brown in color. Its aroma contained notes of mild malt sweet celery . Its mouth feel is initially tingly with a lingering tingly palate and a flavorful aftertaste. Its flavor contained good bock flavor sweet malty notes and was very tasty. A very tasty bock true to the style. Thanks for sharing this one Jeff!

Bottle. Thanks for sharing jsquire. Small tan head that was mostly lasting, sparse lacing, fine-small sized bubbles, transparent, and a reddish brown hue. Malty, caramel, sweet and some alcohol in the aroma. Flavor was sweet, malty and caramel. Smooth palate and quite tasty.

Clear dark ruby brown. Slim of slimmest foam is dawned briefly in a stained yellowyness before fading to a simple collar ring at the edge. Minimal lacing is present and most doesn’t stick around long as it slowly slips back down to meet the collar. Aroma is semi dark and plummy with a slight toasted toffeeness to its deeply sweetened malt tone along with a slight smokey chocolate sense to it. Taste is pretty solid, good malt tones are lightly muting a sense of fruity darkness of fig and plum and a toasty toffee in the front, and more of a tender, silky chocolate in the back. Mellowing and creamy malt laden tastes are manufacturing a solid sweetness that lasts with a good play mixing of dark fruityness, slight chocolate, and a tiny tug of toastyness rounds off towards the finish. Body is more O-fest -like then Doppelbock-like, but its pretty favorable within a creamy, semi medium, silky, malt body. Glides well across the palate and isn’t cloying much in any areas and gains just a tiny warmth pull as ya go. A pretty solid Doppel here. Favorable in much of its character and beery aspects. Drinks down pretty quickly as the body is easily gliding in a non-sticky creamyness and silken maltyness of sweetness. Could have quite a few of these, no prob.

Pours a clear mahogany with a very minute whitea head--0.5cm at best. Aroma is malty, smokey with some caramel/chocolate. Start and middle are very smokey and dominated by maltiness. Finish is sweet chocolate, like a sweet stout. Palate is good. I enjoyed this beer very much.

Deep, safire-mahogany in color, generally translucent, and a short lived, thin tan fluff serving as the intermittent head. Molasses, brown sugar, dates and prunes leap out of the glass, with a second enclave consisting of unmistakable imitation vanilla extract. Golden raisins in a brandy plum sauce and some spiced apple cider bring up the aromatic rear. Flavor fits a fairly large bill. Prunes, pecans, brown sugared dates and caramelized plum pudding. Maple nut pancake syrup meets a sweet vanilla-maple fudge chunk. Though fun to drink, the vanilla extract tract is the leading lady. A heavy hitter with a body and spicing to actively entertain the mouth. Caramelized malts might be a smidgeon over-boiled but it’s bygones. A flicker of alcohol at the tongue’s tip and clinging to the tonsils comes out in the finish, along with candied pistachios, apple brandy and squishy, brown sugar dusted dates. Thanks for the bottle, tpkenned!

deep red/brown color. Syrupy aroma, littlle to no froth. Immediate taste is candy malty sweetness, a bit of a musty smell at the end.

Malt lover's delight. Bottle. Pours a deep reddish orange with a light tan head. Subdued malty aroma with alcohol and hints of fruit. Big sticky malty flavor that lingers. Alcohol blends well. This has some very good German malt character to it.