Fort Collins Doppelbock
Our GABF award-winning Doppel Bock is brewed in the spring and lagered for six months to ensure only the smoothest Bock experience. Released in very limited quantities each fall, availability of our autumnal treat is as fleeting as the changing fall colors.
3.7
228 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
Strong, rich aroma has notes of caramel, horehound, roast malt and quality coffee plus just a snip of semi-sweet chocolate. It pours a clear sienna, with not much head - but this may be because my sample was the dregs of the keg. Robust flavor has a core of roast malt and notes of caramel and horehound plus a hint of honey sweetness. Texture is firm and smooth, though lacking in fizz - but I’ll give it a break because, as I said, this was the last squirt from the keg. Maybe next autumn I’ll get a better sample.
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear amber-red with a white ring. Aroma of smoke, malt, meat, wood, and candied bacon. Taste of meat, malt, a hint of citrus, and wood. Lingering meaty malt. Hides the alcohol well. Different and tasty.
bomber from Supermarket Liquors - Fort Collins. Nose is lightly smoked bacon, lightly burned candisugar, and some caramel. Clear rusty brown with a big, heavy lacing beige head. Flavor is sweet caramel malt, with light smoke and very light bitterness. Smooth as silk.
22 oz. Bomber. Nice dark amber color. Smokey smell and on tongue. Complex with usual bock undertones. Pretty decent.
Aroma is smoke, bread, malts, mild sweetness and a small hint of alcohol. The flavor is smoked malts/pork, mild nuttiness and a mix of sweet and tart in the finish.
Bottle. Aroma has notes of smoke, sticky sweet malts, caramel, molasses, dark fruits, brown sugar and some spice. Very dark deep red amber hue with a small off-white head that mostly diminished and left no lace. Flavor is very sweet and lightly bitter. Palate is full bodied with an soft/average level of carbonation. Overall a very sweet smoked brew but flavor and aroma were good. Nice beer.
Tap at brewery. Clearish ruby copper, with no lasting head. Aroma is of bread dough and sticky caramel, with some lager dustiness and smoked malt. Flavor was much the same--old world smoked maltiness, lagery doughiness, and a subtle caramel undertone. Didn’t really work for me.
Brown color. Small beige bubbles on the surface. Dark sugar nose with some toasted grains. Big sweet beer with lots of caramel, some apple sweetness, and some toasted bread. Nice malty double bock.
Aroma of chocolate, waffle cone, molasses and brown sugar. Appearance is brown with light tan head. Flavor matches the nose, but with some ham smoke. Palate is lightly fizzy and bubbly. Good, but nothing too wow for me.
Not much head to this one, but it has a great nose. Pours a dark amber with some deep red tones. A great smokiness to it with just a hint of sweetness.
Draft at the Taco Mac in Peachtree City. The beer had a solid body and was a flavorful sweet caramel. Just a slight smokiness to the beer.
Bottle. Poured hazy dark brown with an average light brown frothy head that was mostly lasting with very good lacing. Moderate to heavy smoke malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet roasted smoke flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. Complex good beer.
Tmoney99. Mix of smokiness and malt on the nose. Smoke up front that finishes well with the caramel body. One of the better smoked beets I have had, but that isn’t saying all that much
on tap-pours copper with a light tan head. Aroma is smokey/peat/sweet medium malt. Taste is chocolate/smokey/peat/sweet medium malt, some earthy/spice hops, hint of medium fruit.
This beer is awesome. Pours a nice ruby/amber color with a bit of tan head. Aroma is sweet and rich dark fruit flavors (fig and prune mainly) with some caramel as well. Flavor is sweet and slightly smoky. There is also a sort of oaky and nutty flavor that underlies some of the sweet fruit flavors. Sits very well on the palate with some lingering caramel nuttiness that imparts a slightly sticky feel.
650ml bottle - pours very dark red with nice beige head and some lacing. Nose is powerful with candy, smoke, caramel hops and alcohol. Aroma is barley/rye, roasted chocolate and coffee. Taste is very smoky and very sweet. Heavy body. dry finish. I can find a good doppelbock in here, but the barley/rye and smoke just ruin it. drain pour.
22oz bottle in a shaker. Pours deep brown with a cream-colored head. Aroma of caramel malts, some nuts, and floral hops. Not a lot of smokiness. Average texture. A decent beer.
Wow 10.5%? This brewery knows how to hide its ABV. Pour is dark red with off white head on tap at the brewery. The smoke and the dopplebock mixed well, with aromas of chocolate, smokey meat, peat, some toffee, roast and even a hint of nuts. Taste is a mix of smoke, peat and meat creating almost a bacon-like taste, with some slight toffee and caramel that finished it off a bit sweet.
Tap @ brewery. Clear, dark burnt orange appearance with a light brown head. Lots of caramel, toffee, and moderate smoke in the nose. Moderately BBQ smoky, rich, caramel, toffee malty flavor with a rich, almost cloying finish.
Bottle. Pours dark amber with a dense, medium-sized, tan head. Some nice lacing. Aroma and flavor hit all the doppel bock notes -- malty, sweet, lots of raisins, thick almost syrupy palate -- and then it layers on smoke and some vanilla. For all of that, it’s surprisingly mild and drinkable, although a bomber becomes a little cloyingly sweet by the end. Very tasty. Never thought of marrying a rauchbier and a doppelbock, but it makes sense.
rec’d via trade from brenttk56 (thanks Brent). didn’t rate as highly as most - it was toooo sweet. good aroma - toffe/smoke.
hazy thickish amber pour - nice palate. beer goes down smooth with no hops - don’t tast much smoke; sweetness is overpowering.
nose is caramel, im not getting any smoked notes here at all, molasses on the palate, dried fruits linger, palate has extra roasted flavors, not what I would call smoked, very delicious and well masked alcohol for over 10 abv. Well done Americans on reconquering the germans
Poured into a snifter. Nice rich mahogany color, with a light tan head, with a low retention rate. Pretty nice lacing. Very smokey aroma, meaty, bacon and sausage, sweet malts, almost wine-like. Taste has bacon off the start, sweet malts drive it home. Caramel, nutty, the doppelbock comes in the end. Smooth mouthfeel, smokey, creamy, with a very nice carbonation level. Very nice drinkability with this one. It truly is rauchbier meets doppelbock. Delicious.
750 to dimpled mug. Pours dark with thin head that is gone quick. Lots of bready malts. Has a slightly bitter start that grows on me with each taste that ends with a sweet finish. Really good dopplebock.
Pours a dark cloudy mahogany color. Aroma of dried fruit, brown sugar, roasted grain, peat and a smokey woodiness. Flavor is quite smokey up front, much like a campfire. Brown sugar, wood, peat, and nuts follow. Not bad,but you very much tell this is a smoked brew.
Bottle. Pours a rich dark reddish amber brown with a thin off-white head. Smokey malt aroma with caramel and a hint of toffee. Flavor was sweet and smokey with caramel, light raisin, dark fruit and a touch of toffee.
22 ounce bottle in Sam Adams glass. Dark amber/brown with flat tan head and lace. Mildly smokey caramel toffee woody bready aroma Smoky caramel sweetness with mild dark fruit smoky woody mildly bitter woody smoky sweet finish. Nice and rich. The smoke in the finish makes this one really nice. Almost no alcohol presence at 10.2% One helluva good beer.
Bomber. Minimal, near non-existent, off-white/tan head. Reddish-brown, clear body. Aroma of raisin and light smoke with some toasty malt. Big, chewy malt flavors - more dark fruit, light chocolate and some smoke. Fully, smooth body with light carbonation. Super malty and very low bitterness. No discernible alcohol. Very nice beer with nice, layered flavors. I like the subtle smoke that Fort Collins gets in this beer and the "Z".
Deep brown coloured body with light ruby and copper tints and a thinnish tan head. Aroma of smoked peat, roasted malt, caramel and some raisins - pretty light for a smoked beer. Full-bodied; Deep pungent caramel, malty and obviously smoked flavours come through immediately with little time for anything else. Pungent smokiness afterwards with some caramel, a touch of malt, but very strong and pretty overpowering and bitter. Overall, a good beer, and definitely showing the smoke flavours, but perhaps a bit too much, I feel. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased earlier today at Liquor Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 14-March-2010, sampled at home in Washington.
Bomber courtesy of kuphish, and this is maybe 6-8 months old? Maybe? Has a better label, for sure. Dark ruby pour with a short white head. Huge smack in the face, meaty malt and SMOKE...d sausage - awesome! Didn’t expect any smoke in here, but it’s really piling a great accent on top of a good base beer. Grape and light red berry. Dry taste, low earthy caramel and a ton of smoke right from the BBQ pit. Woody, woodsy, lovely smoked Doppelbock. And one I’d session regularly, if its alcohol content [10.2] were in fact anywhere near how it tastes [~6.5-8]. Awesome!