Great Lakes The Doppelrock

Reviewed: April 2011
ABV:  7.8%
Brewery:  Great Lakes Brewing Co.
Country:  USA
Beer Type:  Doppelbock
2011 Rating: B
2010 Rating: N/A

Comments:   Rock & Roll! 
I was all set to rate this beer a "C", but  I changed my rating after reading the  following Great Lakes sell sheet -  you have to love the Monks- 46 days of nothing but beer!     

"Style Origin: Our Doppelbock (German for“double bock”) celebrates the style originally developed by medieval monks. Living by the strict rules of their order, monks were regularly required to castigate themselves by periodic bouts of fasting, when next-to-no solid food was allowed to pass their lips. The longest and most taxing of these periods of culinary abstinence was, of course, Lent—the 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Because the monks believed that liquids not only cleansed the body but also the soul, they would make plenty of “liquid bread” instead of solid bread from their grain and then drink it in copious quantities...the more, the holier."

I  do prefer the Paulaner Salvator Doppel Bock to Doppelrock.