Our Tastes-- Bischoff Doppel Bock

Oh this one promises to be a great German adventure. The Enabler picked this up through BOTMC. Bischoff Doppel Bock is best described like this, expect honeyed ripe red apples and a touch of grapes on the nose with a sweet dough note and a touch of the traditional German yeast mustiness. Also on the nose, look for juicy chewy sweet malts and a slight hint of blonde tobacco. On the palate, the bier goes down a little edgier than many doppelbocks with an assertive carbonation level and an overall flavor that lands a bit on the bitter side which helps stave off what might otherwise have become a cloying sweetness that some doppelbocks suffer from. Expect a pretty complex array of flavors that will develop as it warms. There's a pleasant fruity character which provides notes of apples and grapes as well as rum-soaked raisins, rye and a ghost-like juniper note. Look for a late-breaking sweet coffee-like note toward the finish (think Viennese coffee), I know I do. Now that I have completely plagiarized the BOTMC newsletter, Malt of the Earth, I am going to drink the beer that came in the green bottle, whose nose reminds me of junior high gym class, the flavor of Beck's Oktoberfest with a higher abv, mit 7,5% alkohol because I can't read the damn website!