In time for the holidays, and to pair with its authentic German fare, HofbrAaAaAeAnuhaus Chicago is brewing a special
Dopplebock holiday beer its on-site microbrewery.
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Dopplebock (Munich, Germany).
The best
dopplebock we tasted this season was from an unsurprising source, old country Bavaria, specifically Munich, more specifically Hacker-Pschorr.
Its sugary body offers pronounced caramel flavors akin to a German
dopplebock, and the beer's finish delivers more notes of toasted sugar paired with a wallop of alcohol.
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Dopplebock"Beer Talk" includes the best beers in Germany plus experts views on "
dopplebock" as created by a Bavarian monk called Father Barnabas Still.
Is it a
dopplebock? Maybe, but not as we currently view the style.
For fall, he has a cider and an Abobora (pumpkin) and for the winter, he is planning to create a
dopplebock, a weizenbbock, a winter ale and more.
Iron Horse Beverage is now importing three of the brands--a 5.1% abv hefeweizen, a 5.2% abv dunkel hefeweizen and a 7% abv dopplebock--to be introduced in a Bavarian Beer variety pack of five
Dopplebock, five Hefe Weiss and five Dunkel Weiss swingtop bottles.
"and the smoke nicely offsets the sweetness of the
dopplebock."
No one in Germany has ever made a high alcohol beer that isn't really rich and syrupy, like a
dopplebock. Germanic high alcohol beers are thick, malty and sweet.