RuneStumo (495), FØRRESFJORDEN, Norway Sep 6, 2009 07.11.2003, 0,5l Bottle. Ølet er mørkebrunt med gulbrunt skum. Ølet har en rik, fyldig smak med både sødme og bitterhet. Ølet er sterkt, noe som gir en utmerket kraft og fylde i smak og ettersmak. Very nice!! nickd717 (1276), Palo Alto, California, USA Sep 5, 2009 Draft at Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City, served in a stein. Very dark brown in color with a fairly large off-white head. Aroma is caramel, roast, and dark fruits. Flavor is lots of caramel malt, chocolate, roast, molasses, sweet toffee, raisins and other dark fruits. Palate medium-full and very smooth. A surprisingly awesome doppelbock. TET (226), Finland Sep 5, 2009 Cola-brown beer with big and intensive beige head. Aroma is syrup-like sweet, some roastiness, and slightly sour. Sweet and malty flavour, but not too much, some chocolate and dryer aftertaste. Very smooth and slippery beer to drink. Good beer, where sweet malts are in the top, maybe even too much for my mouth... alobar (1006), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA Aug 30, 2009 Chestnut brown color with an off-white head. Aroma of raisins, caramel, and molasses. Chocolate, dark fruit, molasses, and some bourbon on the taste buds. Velvety texture. Lacing clings to the side of the glass. This is a great beer. ColoradoMatty (16), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Aug 25, 2009 Bottle at German restraunt- This is very true to the style. Excellent dark and creamy appearance. Not a heavy as I had expected. Very tasty and smooth. I highly recomend! madvike (301), Madison, Wisconsin, USA Aug 21, 2009 Bottle - Mahogany pour with a creamy tan head. The smell is a sweet malt bomb, with caramel, bread, and light bourbon. Oh man...I could smell this all day. Taste is mostly the same--big, sweet, and malty, with just that touch of bourbon. There’s a little coffee and a bit a heat on the finish, along with some nice bittering hops. It’s creamy and smooth, just like I’d expect. Beautiful. 17thfloor (1402), Chicago, Illinois, USA Aug 19, 2009 500ml bottle thanks to and shared with funkybrewster. Pours a very dark, almost clear, red with a thick creamy light tan froth with some lacing, settlings into lovely super fine bubbles. Aroma is super fruity, like a fruit-snack/gummy-bear, rich grainy malts, lots of malt flour, very light chocolate, touch of grass 6.5. Mmmmm the flavor is wunderbar, endlessly malty, loads of grainy malt flour, some faint bitterness that adds dimension, bitter chocolate and malt flour, like drinking rye bread, fantastic 8.5. Flavor brings huge nostalgia of when my grandfather used to make me chocolate malts as a kid. It isn’t rich but perfectly sweet. Long lingering chalky bitterness. No hint of any alcohol, well just enough to warm the flavor. The body is near perfect for flavor and style, avoids being syrupy or sticky like so many sugar doppelbock messes, smooth ubiquitous super fine carbonation 4.5. Love it. FunkyBrewster (436), Chicago, Illinois, USA Aug 19, 2009 Shared with 17thfloor. Pours a a deep ruby brown with a nice billowing tan head. Aroma is your nice nutty malt and caramel sweetness. Only a little disappointing in its lack of punch. Hints of dark fruits and nicely toasty bread. Flavor starts with a very rich toffee and sweet malts. Gains a very nice fruity edge that gives it a superb balance to the nutty and woody character. Finishes with a very rich and fulfilling character. Just tasted some walnut or almond fresh nut lingering. Really nice all around flavor from start to finish. Medium to full body and a rich carbonation. Almost to the level of Celebrator, lacking in aroma but a damn good flavor. Very tasty beer.
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