Gee. Same maltiness, similar fruitiness, same color range = "zero similarity"?
Actually, the original question was about what was referred to as a "Double Bock." I did make a typo in the name of our dopplebock, which we call Dubble Bock. That's just our name for our own recipe.
You are reminding me of this guy on another forum who claims to know more about New Belgian Brewing Co.'s beers than the company that brews them.
You know more than Charlie Papazian and J. Palmer and all the homebrew beer book writers about what equipment to use, and now you know more than the BJCP about beer styles.
You were insulting this guy's homebrew shop owner, saying he couldn't have started out with a dopplebock recipe and wound up with a barleywine, when in fact the scenario I have outlined is quite possibly what happened. The only real differences are in the hops and yeast, which are added after most brewers take their first gravity readings. You implied that this homebrew shop owner didn't know what he was doing, and that man's customer may have assumed you were right and he was an idiot, and you would have cost that shop business just because you have to always be showing people up. I take exception to that.