Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock

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

This was a delicious bock! Nice color, balance, and flavor...this is definitely one to enjoy during the cooler months.

500 ml. brown bottle. Fresh before 12.21.02. Aged in my cellar for 4 years. Let’s see how it holds up. Poured out a dark reddish brown, with a thick tan colored head. Aromas are of chocolate candy-covered coffee beans, yeasty bread, rum soaked raisins. Flavors are of a chocolate malted, with lager yeast notes. Earthy hops are well subdued at this point. Thick, rich mouthfeel. Medium body, finishes slightly dry. It has aged very well, IMHO.

500 ml bottle from LCBO, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.

App.: Clear, deep mahogany with a moderate tan head. Aroma: Cola-like herbals, woody, deep burnt sugar, a bit earthy, some dates/prunes and molasses, rye bread crust. Palate: Medium body, fairly soft carbonation, a bit syrupy. Flav.: Lots of dark rye bread crust, some molasses/toffee/burnt sugar, a bit of dark dried fruit, a bit of wood, much like the nose; finishes a bit off-dry with a little bitterness.

Tasty and certainly to style. Doesn’t blow me away.

Aroma of peanuts and molasses with a strong smell of dog food dominant. Clear brown, with a firm thick tan head. Extra full body. Very sweet flavor of roasted barley and molasses. Grassy bark finish. Weird off flavor of some sort of chemical that comes and goes. I don’t understand why this is rated as highly as it is, but then again, I’m not crazy about bocks.

Bottle from Tip Top Meats Carlsbad: Deep dark burgandy color with a small fadiing light beige head. Aroma of nuts and cola. Flavor has caramel, dark fruit, nuts, smoke, some dark chocolate and black coffee. Medium body is creamy with moderate carbonation. A little sweet for my taste.

Crikey! The head on this thing dangerous; massive rocky texture, coffe coloured. Body is medium chocolate brown in colour. Aromas are forceful with a malty yeasty note, some burnt toffee and mazipan perhaps. A touch challenging. Palate delivers, mostly, the intensity of the nose. Sweet licorice-infused chocolate, thich malts, some fruit cake and heat on th finish. Low fizz. Drinks bigger than its 6.9%. Good.

Dopplebocks are my favorite spring drink with ripe cheese and/or wild game….I’m a deer hunter so this one was a no brainer….had to buy them up. I was lucky to get the last of the stock of this great Kloster- made dopple for the year . The pour was a clear but dark cola-red color with medium effervescence and a rocky frothy tan head that reduces to a capping lace. Strong aromas of hazel nut brittle, fruit preserves and a hint of cinnamon. Starts very rich...silky-oily mouth feel with a massive malt wallop...sweetness pervades in the rich malty body with distinct notes of burnt toffee, some berry and spice mingled with the very rich malts ( the hops at this point sit in the background preventing this from tasting overly sweet). The finish is beautifully lazy as the big malts and sweet spiciness mutate on the tongue to a more complex mix and the hops make this a semi sweet finish like raw baker’s chocolate with fruit and nuts in it….. then the lingering after taste leaves the metallic hops on the back of your tongue to mingle with a detectable "warming". A superbly complex and well crafted dopplebock. I have the last of this to come in cellared but I wonder how long that will last when the nights turn cold and the venison comes out of the freezer.

Bottled. Deep intensive ruby, lovely creamy beige head. Buttery rye bread aroma, malty ans simple. Sweet rye bread malty flavor w/ liquorice, rye pudding, little dried fruits. Herbal and slightly ashy finish. Full bodied, lush mouthfilling carbonation. A good, soothing dobbelbock.