Widmer Brothers Reserve Cherry Oak Doppelbock

Brewed by Widmer Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Portland, Oregon USA

Bottle. Pours clear, effervescent tawny with a smallish fizzy light tan head, somewhat lasting with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (caramel, nutty), light earthy hops, light bread-like yeast with notes of candied cherries, toasted oak, and alcohol (solvent-like). Some off aromas of stomach acid (butyric) indicating sanitation issues. Flavor is fairly sweet caramel malt with bitter hops and slight cherry notes. Again, the stomach acid is in the flavor too. Some oak notes at the end. Creamy start with a spicy and dry finish; a tad too attenuated. I was hoping for more from this beer given that they took a doppelbock, aged it on oak and cherries, but something went wrong here.

Bottle from Whole Foods (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark cola brown to black with thin tan head. Aroma is cherries, malt, chocolate, brown sugar, tofffee, ripe fruit, apple peel. Flavor is chocolate, bourbon, candy sugar, vanilla, oak, smoke, some spice. Medium body with malty and chocolate finish.

I was very surprised by this one. Found a bottle for 7 bucks at the local liquor store. Pours bing cherry red with a quickly diminishing tan head. Cherry, chocolate aroma. Nice balance of cherry and bock taste. Not too bad. Better than I expected.

Pours reddish brown with a pretty beige head and a cherry aroma. The flavor is chocolate cherry with a tasty oak finish. Doesn’t really remind me of a doppelbock, but it’s a very nice drink.

Courtesy of angrypirate. Clear mahogany color/ fleeting head. Big malty sweet pit fruit, yeasty bready aromas. medium body. sweet sugared pecan flavors with sweet hawaiian bread yeastiness. sweet mildly boozy finish. sweet

bottle poured a brown in color with a thin layer of light tan head and little visible carbonation. aroma has muted cherry, sweet malt, and some dusty yeast. mouth feel gets thick and bangs on the door of cloying but the light carbonation saves it barely. flavor gets a bit more cherry, dark sweet malt, some alcohol, and yeast.

Bomber brought in by a friend to share at our local pub. Poured to an "on the rocks glass" a cloudy, ruby toned, dark brown. The head was a modest amount of light tan foam that reduced to a small ring and film, and left some spots and streaks of lacing. The aroma was toasty, oaky, dark cherry, light chocolate, caramel, malty sweetness, and light alcohol. The flavor was similar, with less intensity than the nose, but perked up alcohol as it warmed. A low hop bitterness was present, along with a pleasant, finishing dryness. A tasty Doppel+.

Bottle from DuffmanSW at Hophead22 tasting. Shout out to Mike and Diane for hooking Sean up. Poured a reddish brown color with small head. Aroma of sweet sugar and mild cherries. Taste was malty with some cherries. Medium frothy mouthfeel.