Luminous auburn-clouded bock registers up-front burgundy wanderlust furthered by musty Muscat grape pungency, leathered banana-clove perk, cotton-candied bubblegum sweetness, rich plum-prune tartness, mild grape skin tannins and dewy cellar fungi. Perfumed hop insistence delicately nudges honey nut-roasted pale-crystal malting and sweet toffee-butterscotch-vanilla subsidy, culminating in creamy barleywine resonance. Not as heavily alcoholic as stronger doppelbocks, yet rich, assertive, stimulating. Aged four years and quaffed on tap at Ambulance, busy 2013 version gained mellow caramelized malt syruping and pronounced red cherry, cantaloupe, banana daiquiri and honeydew sweetness.
