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The beer came to be known as a doppel (double) bock: It was stronger than bock beer, though not doubly strong.
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Higher alcohol beers, such as doppel bocks and barley wines, also benefit from the warmer temperature.
Ethan Kahn: Room Temperature Beer Ethan Kahn 2011
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Higher alcohol beers, such as doppel bocks and barley wines, also benefit from the warmer temperature.
Ethan Kahn: Room Temperature Beer Ethan Kahn 2011
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Further trouble brews when it turns out that a doppel whose halves speak slightly out of phase can act as a drug for the Hosts—addictive, destructive, eventually cataclysmic for the whole Host civilization and its human symbiote.
Impossible Cities Tom Shippey 2011
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Eventually we learn what happens when one member of a doppel dies: The half that is left, like Bren once half of BrenDan, becomes a kind of amputee.
Impossible Cities Tom Shippey 2011
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Summary: Thankfully, I really enjoyed this and Viking lives to see another day; this is a really nice Wisconsin doppel - it would be nice to see more availability of this in the Madison area in the fall and winter months; really the only widely-available Wisconsin doppels are from Tyranena and Capital is that right?
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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March 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm srry, ‘teh, aint no kitteh cute ’nuff 2 B yer doppel!
I is cuter… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Summary: Thankfully, I really enjoyed this and Viking lives to see another day; this is a really nice Wisconsin doppel - it would be nice to see more availability of this in the Madison area in the fall and winter months; really the only widely-available Wisconsin doppels are from Tyranena and Capital is that right?
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In the very first gallery stands a small statue of a "Nude Priest-King" with an old photo of his alabaster doppel-gnger from Baghdad -- God knows where it is right now.
Why Should We Care? 2007
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When he tried to get the Raven Sword from me in order to kill my doppel-ganger's daughter!
The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001
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