We love hard-to-translate German words around here. This is a brewing magazine, right?
So, the first word that Florian Kuplent uses to describe a great doppelbock is this: süffig. Virtually always used in the context of drinks, it means something like smooth or drinkable. Quaffable, even.
And a great doppelbock should be quaffable—easier said than done, with a deeply malty beer in the neighborhood of 7 or 8 percent ABV.