Abita Andygator

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

650ml bottle into shaker. Cloudy orange beer with thin foamy white head. Patchy lacing. High carbonation with floaties. Nose is sweet caramel toffee. Taste is sweet malt and toffee. Alcohol is noticeable in the slightly sour & fruity finish. Not bad, but nothing special.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

22oz bottle picked up at Lee’s Liquor in Mesquite
Appearance: Pours crystal clear light golden with a decent white head that dissipates quickly leaving some lacing in the glass
Aroma: Sweet caramel, malts, fruits with some honey, nice
Taste: Sweet malts, honey and some hop bitterness in the finish
I like this beer, very nice. Plan to pick up a few more when I can.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Hey, another Abita gem(?) courtesy of kiefdog. Pours deep gold with thin white head. It has a pretty full aroma with sweet malts and moving to grains, sugar, some honey and apples. The taste is similar beginning with a thick sweet mouthfeel and giving up sugar, malts, grains and honey. The honey note peaks about midway to briefly take control of the flavor. It ends pretty smooth with lingering grains and sweetness.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

The Buechel OGs raid the GABF 2023: Poured a copper golden with a off white head. Aroma is mushy grain, citrus. Taste is sweet grain, one dimensional.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Wow! I've always considered Abita a few steps below the great brewers like Stone and others. A blue collar brewer if you like. But this beer has got me scratching my head. It's good. Really good. Not quite a Belgian, but it's not trying to be. It's just what its supposed to be... an easy drinking helles doppelbock.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours out to a sparkly clear medium golden, forming a finely beaded white frothy head with superior retention and lacing. The aroma has a distinct pale malt character with a hint of toast and biscuit. The taste is quite good...pale malt with biscuit note, very clean and letting the malt toast shine through with a well balanced clean bitterness. The mouth feel is crisp, briskly carbonated, medium dense bodied, finishing slightly sweet and with a touch of syrup left in the mouth afterwards.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

This is not really representative of how much i like the style. This example is just a little overly sweet and grainy, without that distinct liquid bread aspect I so love. Below average for the style. Still ok overall.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

This is one of those beers that offers nothing to excite you. It's good enough, just very forgettable. Pale gold pour and grainy aroma/taste make it hard to believe this is a doppelbock. Just ok.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

A bold sunshine of color. A small foamy textured white head rises briefly above. Settles into a medium sized ringlet. I hame getting a pome (apple/pear) fruitiness in the nose. Chilled the same fruit is there. As it warms a nice balance of grassy hops appears. Medium bodied, effervescent and creamy

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Good story, buddy (Mike) brings me this back after doing some work in LA. Reason for this beer, A drunkin agrument in Tulum mexico about which album by indie rockers, The National is better. I say Alligator, he says Boxer. The story of how I got this beer. Anyways..... after depositing in Snaring River for an appropriate time, really germannic though much less carbonated, fruity and a bit sour, something carmellish.... but its a bit off putting. Perfectly balanced and drinkable, but hmmmm, just not in love, less than the sum of its parts.