Dogfish Head to release Carobock draft Sept. 1

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is getting ready for fall with the release of seasonal favorite Punkin Ale. Another a-peel-ing, draft-only release set Friday, Sept. 1, is Carobock, a Bavarian-style Weizenbock known for being rich with notes of chocolate, bananas and toasted malt.

Clocking in at 8 percent ABV, this ale is brewed with malted wheat, dark Munich malt and chocolate wheat, and is fermented with traditional weizen yeast to boost the banana and spice notes that typify the style.

The off-centered and ever-inventive brewers at Dogfish wanted Carobock to be a play on a delicious chocolate-covered banana, so they selected toasted carob pods to provide intense, earthy chocolate flavors and rounded out the brew by aging it on Madagascar vanilla beans.

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