Coney Island Human Blockhead

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

Bready as a doppelbock should be, maybe with a little more extra spiced quality that doesn't really fit...but is not altogether unpleasant either. Medium bodied and malty, a touch below average for a style I like, but enjoyed.

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

This one pours a semi-transparent warm brown - definitely appetizing. Strong aroma is spicy, malty and slightly yeasty, calling for at least a taste. Spicy, fruity and malty flavor is mainly cinnamon apple and quite pleasing. Sharp, tingly texture leaves a spicy, bitter and yet sweet finish.

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

Pours a reddish brown with a big fizzy tan head. Head recedes quickly but leaves some decent lacing. Scent is mostly malt, and alcohol with some fruit notes. Taste is a definite malt bomb. Candied malts, faint hop flavors and somewhat cloying caramel notes. Definitely lots of alcohol, which I guess isn't too surprising as this clocks in at 10%. Medium bodied with an adequate level of carbonation. Overall it has some nice features, however the beer just never really quite comes together.

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

Sampled 4/1/2009. This dunkel pours a dark amber brown color from a 22oz bottle. Small sized white foamy head. The aroma is roasty malts and dark fruits, a touch sweet. A medium bodied Dunkel. The malts are caramel, bready and semi-sweet. The hops are earthy. Nice balance. Good carbonation. The malt flavors mellow as it warms. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

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

It pours a crisp dark-copper with a thick and foamy light-tan head and copious lacing. An aroma of caramel malts, hops, light alcohol, oranges, raisins, bread and yeast, and mildly spicy. The mouthfeel is smooth and rich. Flavors of caramel malts, hops, alcohol, orange, raisins, lightly burnt toast, and mildly spicy. It's very good, but a little too much alcohol for me. It would be great on a very cold night though.

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

For a beer with such a whimiscal labeling one would expect a subpar beer. That was not the case here. A nice amber color to this one, with a huge frothy textured, off white head rising above. There's great hang time, settling eventually into a thick film and ringlet. Interesting aromas and tasteing of sugar, dried fruit and caramel. There's some grassy hops in the tasting. A thick, slick palate. I really liked this one.

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

Reddish brown color with a quarter inch thick, filmy head and a few light bands of lacing around the glass. Decent aroma of raisin, brown sugar and toffee. Malty body with a fairly hot finish. Malt driven flavor with hints of wheat bread, fig newtons and raisin. A faint bitterness is there, but doesn’t do much.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Poured out a nice red / orange thing into my glass with a decent light tan head considering that it’s 10%. The smell is similar to a bitch slapped barleywine. Sweet fruits and citrus (plum, orange, figs). thick malts and brown sugar, some underlying roasted malts, raisins. The taste is pretty much a variation on an american BW - a fuckload of hops, tons of malts. The malts might be overtaking the hops here - molasses, very good spices, slight cocoa, a bit of alcohol if I breathe properly - I really have not noticed the 10% in the taste whatsoever as I blindly assume the spice is all hops. Raisins, hearty bread, brown sugar, licorice finally came through and just boosted the marks... that is a nice touch in the background for sure! Some caramel as well.... really, now that this has warmed it’s mostly malts with a killer bitterness that slices the taste clean in half, some candy citrus.. still pretty much a barley wine. Not really smooth, decent carbonation, very long strong bitter finish with some malty lingerings. Ok, this is a decent beer, whatever the hell it is supposed to be. a Doppelbock? Hardly. I’m pretty buzzed!

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

A vigorous pour into my 25cl tulip glass produces a four-finger thick, nicely tan colored head. The head leaves some nice layered lacing on the sides of my glass as it slowly subsides. The beer is a deep red / amber color that shows a brilliantly clear, ruby – gold color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of rich, concentrated malt; a mix of caramel, some toffee, brown sugar notes and a nicely toasted malt and biscuit like notes in the finish. The nose is sweet, but with a complex sweetness that easily keeps it from being cloying. I find myself enjoying this malty, brown-bread like nose on this beer.

The beer is sweet up front, but again there is a complexity to the flavor that makes it interesting. The finish has a touch of warming alcohol, and some toasted malt notes that struggle to come through the up front, caramelized malt notes. A light bitterness and even a touch of herbal (perhaps even menthol too) hop character helps to balance out the finish just a touch. As my palate gets used to the caramelized sweetness a more bread-like character starts to come forward. Notes of brown sugar encrusted, caramelized whole-grain bread crust flavors come out, as does some toffee flavors. The malt character does have a touch of a savory quality to it; I get this note in strong, malty beers and here it contributes very subtle flavors reminiscent of smoke and perhaps a touch of sea-water. The herbal hop character in the finish becomes quite a bit more noticeable as the beer warms up; this really has a fresh hoppiness to it that works quite well with the thick malt character. This has a fair amount of body to it, though it is not over-the-top heavy for a beer of 10% alcohol; it is somewhat quaffable, if only just so & in small sips, but does have a touch too much carbonation initially.

This actually has quite a bit of hop flavor to it; it might be just a bit more malt leaning than hop forward, but actually it might just be the other way around as well. I am actually enjoying this beer quite a bit more than I was expecting to.

Purchased: Plaza Liquors, Tucson AZ

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

Love this bottle cap this is one of my favorites it is neat looking. Normal looking brown body with ruby highlights a massive cap floats on top taking way too long to disappear. This beer is stinky!! Caramel, hops, shoes, salty meat, smoke but zero trace of the 10%, I find nothing enjoyable about the stink. Thank gawd this taste better then it smells. Massive malty flavour with a bitter citrus hop finish. I’m digging this flavour with citrus and spice this shyt is nice (sigh)brown sugar and plums. It so thick and heavy feeling and the 10% alcohol is melting my stomach but I can’t taste it. The spicy alcohol flavour is now starting to appear towards the end of my bottle. Taste good, nothing to special but I managed to down this 650ml bottle in half an hour and now the room is spinning.