Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Weltenburg
Style: Doppelbock
Kelheim, Niederbayern, Germany

(500ml bottle from Fat Cat Norwich) Dark red colour with an off white head that disappears quickly. Smells of rich plum, sweet fruit and malt. Feels warm and thick in the mouth. Tastes of dark berries and fruits with brown sugar and toast overtones. Caramel too, and a tiny hint of chocolate. Very nice, the first doppelbock I’ve had and certainly not the last. Perfect as a winter warmer, the flavours blend beautifully together to create a rich, taste centric malty beer that can only be pleasing.

500ml bottle. The aroma is malty, bready and toasty with dark fruits (figs/dates). The mouthfeel is killer. Malty, bready, toasty flavor with dark fruits and a floral finish. This is a beer for people that appreciate a well done, malt-centric beer.

bottle - Pours deep amber with a thin tan, fading head. The aroma is rich caramel malt with some dark fruit accents. The dark fruit notes come through nicely in the sweet flavor. It’s medium bodied. There’s just a touch of bitterness in a mostly malt finish that includes some noticeable but gentle alcohol presence. As one might expect, there are definite similarities to their Barock Dunkel, which I drank yesterday, but the doppelbock version is of course bigger and more flavorful, especially in how much better the fruit notes come through. Very tasty.

Pours a dark brown color with a quickly disappearing tan head. Sweet aroma, lots of caramel and bready. Again, sweet caramel dominates the body, bready, tasty. Even with all that sweetness, definitely easy to drink. Top notch.

Pours like a cola. Transparent reddish brown, with a fizzy head that’s thick, but dissipates fairly quickly. Gets much better from there, though. Brown sugar and dark fruits are predominant in the aroma and the flavor. It’s a bit sweet, but stays dry - very tasty, and very easy to drink.

Somewhat sweet for a bock, still a very good tasting with the aforementioned sugars and a touch of porter coffee smokiness.

Bottle. Reddish brown color with light tan head. Aroma is filled with caramel and sweetness. A bitterness comes over the tongue, followed by the fruity-like sweetness and again the caramel or even molasses and a touch of smokiness. Ein fantastisches Doppelbockbier.

Late forming beautiful head over a dark body. Nice malts and caramels with a lasting grip. Usual coffee flavours. Very nice.