The name is much cooler than the beer. I was lured in with a fantasy of a smoky bayou blackness...chicory or some other peculiar aromatic to perfume the usually heavier dopplebock. I should've read the brewer's {Atwater} hometown...Detroit.
Still, the flavors are decent and mask the 9.5% ABV punch of the Voodoo Vater.
I kept getting an aftertaste that reminded me of cola watered-down by melted ice...thin malted sweetness. The further you get into the pint the more detectable the grassier bitterness becomes, but it was a little too weak.
Being weaned on Aventinus Wheat Dopplebock on draft, it's hard to find another dopplebock that I really prefer. I saw somewhere that this will be coming on draft to Philly, so I'll give it a shot off the taps to see if the weak body was a bottle phenomena.
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local 44's got it!
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Thanks Malachy!
ReplyDeleteI've been hearing good things about Local44...I'll be bellying up to the bar for sure now.
do go. it's definitely worth the trip to spruce hill.
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