German-style Doppelbock / Limited release

Ravenator.

A big, malt-forward German-style Doppelbock. Deep amber, full-bodied, and layered with dried fruit, coffee, and chocolate. Long lagering brings it home with a crisp finish.

8% ABV · 25 IBU · Brewed in Oak Cliff

Meet the beer Find Ravenator

Original Ravenator label featuring a black raven on red-orange artwork with a green and yellow side panel

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Beer field notes

Oak Cliff, Texas / 09

Style: Doppelbock
ABV: 8%
Release: Limited release
Brewed in: Oak Cliff, Texas

Tasting notes: Dried fruit · Coffee · Chocolate
In the brew: Munich Malt · Pilsner Malt · Saaz Hops · Lager Yeast

01 / A familiar bird. A bold beer.

A familiar raven.
A bold Doppelbock.

Look up along Jefferson and you’ll find a piece of Oak Cliff that generations of neighbors have known: the raven signs of Raven’s Pharmacy. Ravenator carries that neighborhood memory into a German-style Doppelbock, with a black bird stretched across its red-orange label.

Doppelbock means “double bock”: a strong, malt-forward lager with richness at its heart. Ravenator leans all the way in. At 8% ABV, deep amber malt, dried-fruit notes, coffee, and chocolate make it a fireside sipper, while extended lagering keeps the finish crisp. Pull up a chair. Stay a while.

Close-up of Ravenator’s black raven artwork on the red-orange label — The neighborhood bird, reimagined on the can.

02 / Raven’s Pharmacy · Oak Cliff

Behind the bird.

Before the beer, there was a neighborhood pharmacy—and a sign worth looking up for.

Raven’s Pharmacy storefront on Jefferson Boulevard with its elevated raven sign, photographed for a 2011 location story — Raven’s Pharmacy on Jefferson / 2011 location-story photograph. Esteem Education Co.

A name on the boulevard.

George A. Raven founded the pharmacy business. Neighborhood records place a Raven Pharmacy on West Jefferson in 1946; by 1972, four Raven Pharmacies served Oak Cliff.

The signs became landmarks in their own right. In 2015, when the Jefferson property was offered for lease, its owners told the Oak Cliff Advocate that the iconic raven sign would stay. A business could change. The bird belonged to the boulevard.

Read the story of the sign

Raven Pharmacies advertisement from the 1972 Sunset High School yearbook — 1972 Sunset High School yearbook advertisement / Oak Cliff Yesterday.

From the neighborhood record

Four corners of Oak Cliff.

The 1972 advertisement lists locations on Colorado, Jefferson, Centre, and Kiest. An everyday business left its mark across the neighborhood—and a bird became part of the local vocabulary.

Explore the pharmacy history

03 / In the brew