Brewery: Capital Brewing
Location: Middleton, WI
Beer Name: Autumnal Fire
Style: Doppelbock
ABV: 7.8%
IBU: NA
The beer was poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a deep reddish brown with great clarity with a very slight head and hardly any retention. Some lacing. The aroma shines of sweet caramel malts, raisins and dates, with a hint of vanilla on the end. The flavor speaks of sweet caramel malt with slight touches of herbal hops and a bit of heat from the alcohol. The body is a viscous medium body with a lithe level of carbonation.
Overall a very pleasing Doppelbock. The flavor is a deeper extension of what the aroma begins the experience with. There is a sherry quality to the smell. A very nice rich caramel and raisin/fig taste starts the beer that moves into a pleasant bready, almost shortbread quality that rounds out with a fading hint of herbal hop with a slight amount of heat from the alcohol. Some might say that it’s a bit too hot, but with a little warm up time it fades. For me the alcohol adds a balancing factor to all the sweet maltiness of the beer and one I quite enjoy. My only complaint was it could a tad more carbonation to lend a bit of crispness to the beer but that’s just nitpicking. Where as the Hop Heads love their Humulus lupulus, I tend to really enjoy the malt forward beers and this certainly does the trick for me.
Score
Appearance
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5/5
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Aroma
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5/5
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Flavor
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9/10
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Overall
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8/10
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Total
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27/30
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