Bischoff Doppelbock

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Decent beer. The rating's probably lower than the actual quality of the beer. Flavor is ok, some caramel malt....mild hop. Balance slightly off, which reflects in the feel. Aroma a bit sour/skunky. The important thing is flavor though and enough drinkability here to say it's about average.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 5

A mahogany colored beer with a small off white, frothy headthat rises briefly above. There's no lacing. The nose is fermented funk. Strange odors. The tasting bread and molasses. Light medium bodied. Low carbonation.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 4

I was shocked when it poured out of the green bottle on how light this Dobblebock was. Aroma was faint but nice. NO head at all and was a bit over carbonated. Flavor was not bad sweet and a bit malty when no aftertaste.

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

Screw cap Bottle date April 2008, Sampled December 2007
The beer pours with an initially three-finger thick, light tan colored crown of froth that disappears fairly quickly to a dusted covering of bubbles. The beer sits in my glass an opaque, brownish tinged, almost black color that shows a brilliantly clear, amber-hued, ruby red color when held up to the light. The green bottle has not helped this very much, though I would not characterize it as smelling skunky, it does smell a bit of stale beer. Underneath this is a really grassy note that seems to be from both hop and malt. Faint, concentrated malt notes (a touch of caramel, some toasty notes and some biscuit-like notes) are perceptible at times, but sometimes only just so. Overall a fairly week nose, especially for a Doppel Bock, this would be a good nose on a Vienna or something like that.

Sweet and malty tasting up front. This has a slight, herbal hoppiness to it that is nice and it even has a touch of bitterness to it. It is perhaps a touch thin for a Doppel Bock, but does have a nice, medium fullness to it that causes the malt to cling to the palate just a bit. Touches of dark malt flavors show up in the form of toasted malt, a touch of chocolate, chewy caramelized malt sugars, touches of brown sugar and even some dried fruit-like notes.

Not a bad beer, it just seems to be missing a certain oomph-like quality. Somehow this one just does not really do it for me. Perhaps not as rich as I would like to see in a Doppel Bock, but it is flavorful enough to be tasty if not even enjoyable.

Purchased: Plaza Liquors, Tucson, AZ