Thomas Creek Deep Water Dopplebock

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

Huge pillow type head on top of a murky brown body followed by a blanket of lacing, looks truly spectacular. Creamy and medium bodied with a sweet smoothness that comforts. Sweet and full of fresh breads with a hint of brown sugar and a strong fruity undertone. Malt forward and wonderful.

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

Bottled@Bishops Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm. Quite much deep ruby/black colour with a small beige head that vanishes rather quickly. Aroma is syrupy, sweet malty as well as slightly dark fruity. Flavour is dark fruits, some toffee, mild hops and spices. As it warms up it gets more complex and bodied and the fruityness grows. Sadly warming up also gives the beer some slight metallic notes.

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

Hey ... Not a bad beer at all.. I really liked this one and really like to enjoy it again!.

Nose has some malt funk with a bit of smoke and sugar. Pours a reddish brown with a little tan head. Medium to full body with good carbonation and a smooth finish. Flavor is Some coffee and roasted malt with burt sugar and molasses. Finishes a little smokey... Nice Beer!

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

Deep, clear amber-brown pour with a slight head and some lacing. Big malty aroma with toasted malts, a touch of bitter chocolate, some smokiness. Taste is big - malty, smoky, cocoa-rich, and slightlysour with hops in the end.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

First whiff when I opened the bottle was fruity and cider-like, while the second was smokier and maltier but still with a strong hard cider overtone. Pours an opaque chocolaty brown with a thick, frothy, not too persistent pale tan head. Flavor is rather wan, though - more like cider than beer, just a hint of malt and a touch of hops and smoke, and a little watery. Texture is thin and watery, like flat cola. I have had better, but this is OK.

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

Bottle courtesy of durhambeer. Pours brown with a tan head. Smells of caramel, sweet fruit, some earthy hints. Tastes of spice, caramel, light chocolate, cinnamon.

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

Thanks to eagle for this one. Poured a brown color with okay head. Aroma was of lightly roasted coffee and something else i was having trouble picking up. Flavor was of coffee and something very very bitter. Have to agree with eagle missed the style completly, could be the dumb low alcohol law in SC.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

Bottle courtesy of Shag/Clash. Poured a brown color with a tannish colored head, fairly generous. Aroma of coffee and nuts, light roast. The flavor was off coffee, bitter rancid nuts, roastedness, very astringent, hardly a lager or any doppelbock action going on here, more like a bad stout. Mouthfeel was medium to slightly heavy for the style, yet acidic, poorly attenuated. Ehhh, poor South Carolina and all those states with caps. Geez, you can't do a doppelbock with that cap. (No dark fruits at all, though, no breadiness, nothing resembling a doppelbock.) Thanks for this one, Matt!

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

Aroma is malty, maybe a little alcohol. Appearance - poured a deep reddish brown with off white head that didn't last. Average mouthfeel. Nice malty/ slightly hoppy flavor. Pretty good, good enough to buy again.

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

Rerate 10/27/03: This beer seems to have changed from the first time I sampled it and it has changed for the better. I don't know what was wrong with my first sample of this stuff. It's actually pretty good. Nice extremely dark brown body with lumpy, long-lasting tan head. Nice malty aroma. Flavor is nicely porter-like with chocolate and a little roastiness. The body is far from thin. This is a little sweet, but not cloying. I still wouldn't call it a doppelbock. It'd pass for a schwarzbier, but I wouldn't have even guessed it was a lager if I didn't already know. 9/16/02: Dopplebock? More like just a dark bock. It's a bit hoppier than I like for a dopple as well.