Primátor 24% Specialni Tmavé (Double Bock)

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

50cl bottle pours with a dark mahogany colored body that supports a decent enough looking tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a snippet of minerals and roasted malts that quickly give way to plums and dark colored raisins. The taste delivers a swift hit of earthy roasted malts with a fair amount of minerals in tow. Just behind those comes a bruising, near brash, load of sweet slippery prunes, dates and brown sugar coated raisins. Another sip reveals thin layers of chocolate as well as a sense of lagery yeasty esters. This drinks fine with little sense of its big ABV. =approved=

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

A reddish brown colored beer with a moderate sized creamy offwhite head that rises briefly above. Settles into thin ringlet. The profile on this thick, syrupy beer is burny brown sugar. A little too sweet for my preference

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

500ml bottle -

Local BevMo started carrying a couple of the Primator bottles, for $2.99 not a bad price. Aroma on this was nice with raisins, figs, brown sugar and molasses easy to pick-up. Appearance was a ruddy brown body, dirty-white head. Really sweet palate, more sweet dark fruits, brown sugar...kinda earthy too. Nice find.

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

Dark rubyish brown colour with small brown head while pouring, but then disappears fast. Sparkling. A lot. Aroma of slight roast, alcohol, licorace and coffee. Flavour is chocolate, coffee, toffee and slightly roasted malts. Scary, the alcohol is not noted in the flavour almost at all. Slightly fruitish hints also noteable.

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

Dark brown color. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is malt, dark fruit and sweet. A medium bodied dopplebock. Malts are fruity, brown sugar-ish and sweet. Touch of toffee and some spices. Slightly spicy hops. Way over balanced toward the big sweet malts. It a nice dopplebock if you can get past the nearly overpowering sweetness. Definitely a sipping beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is very sweet.

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

Yes, I know I'm fully on-record as to having highly adverse opinions to the Doppelbock style.

Yes, I know that I've said that I prefer "dry hoppy ales" vice "sweet malty lagers".

But all-the-same, I picked up a bottle of this on-the-cheap, to give it a try. And though I never expect to become much of a fan of this style of beer, I do have to give this it's just due.

In short, this is very big, and very sweet. Almost teeth-numbingly sweet, IMHO. But before it hits the back of the throat, and before it rots away my teeth from the sweetness, I have to admit that certian positive things do occur in the meanwhile. Mainly, the flavor profile of this beer works for me. Pretty tasty, overall. Big on the malt profile, of course.

Of course I wish that this was more bitter. And yes, I also wish that it wasn't so damn-sickly sweet. But inherent prejeduces aside, I'd be hard pressed not to acknowledge that this beer works for what it sets out to do.

A worthwhile Doppelbock, with a not-so-subtle "donkey-kick-upside-the-head" hint of alcohol in the end.... ;^)
//TB

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

(500 ml bottle). Black (= very dark brown) colour, moderate tan head. Aroma of lightly roasted malts, tar and dark chocolate. Notes of smoke and woodwork. Flavour is rich, malty and full of molasses. Very sweet, too sweet in my book - nearly sticky. The 10% ABV is extremely well hidden behind the overwhelming sweetness, could (nearly) pass for a 1.7% ABV Danish "hvidtøl"! The Danes might use it to put hyper-active children to sleep on Christmas eve! Despite the sweetness, I kind of like it, due to its very full mouthfeel. A love-hate relationship, you might say.