 The_Beer_God (2829), Newport News, Virginia, USA
Aug 15, 2004
Had this at Bier Garden in Portsmouth VA on 8-15-04. Pours brown with splashes of red blended into it. Nice medium tan head. Aroma is nicely malted with light wheat, caramel, and faint yeast. Taste is more malt and caramel, with some mild spice. Distant fruit tastes come through as well. Mouthfeel is moderate with a balanced carbonated feel to it. Some spice coming through as well. Finish is light caramel with mild spice and yeast. Pretty good stuff!
BlackDonald (1040), North Carolina, USA
Jun 5, 2008 Pours a murky dark brown with some ruby highlights. Has a small off white rocky head. Aromas of fruit and licorice, with a bready biscuity maltiness. Really rich and easy to drink.
DocLock (4085), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
Nov 2, 2007 Bottle from State Line. Dark brown color with aroma of caramel malt, some brown sugar, figs, toffee. Medium palate with flavors of roasty caramel malt, slight nuts, brown sugar, and some toffee and backup hops late.
rm0312 (35), Idaho, USA
May 10, 2007 Updated: May 11, 2007From the bottle into a pint glass - Dark brown with a light frothy head that dissipated quickly but retained a nice lacing. Very good aroma, nice mellow bready toffee flavor with a touch of caramel. Very good beer.
5000 (2400), Hardened Liver, Washington, USA
May 5, 2007 Bottle: Burnt caramel in color, on the darker side, moderate foamy head, bubbles are fine, fairly nice lacing. Soft toasted
malt, some whole wheat like bread character as well. Seems somewhat sweet. Bready on the tongue, toasty in a whole wheat sense.
Definitely on the sweet side. Body and mouthfeel are on par, moderate. Clean finish, remains bready and sweet, light
toasted malts with maybe even a hint of dark pitted fruit and unripened black cherry linger. Decent.
jpm30 (1585), East Central, Georgia, USA
Dec 9, 2006 From a 500 ml. euro bottle with an unmarked freshness date on the front label.
Poured a slightly hazy caramel nutty brown with a foamy, fluffy, creamy head that settled into a thin bubbly lacing, minimal amount of laced ringed sticking.
Smells like a dunkel, aromas of toasted nuts and caramel, a light breadiness, a little cocoa and dark fruits with a touch of medicinal herbs.
The proper moderate carbonation that I like in German lagers and a malty crisp, velvety smooth medium bodied mouthfeel.
Tastes of caramel, cocoa, nuts and a little grainy bready, a trace of raisin sweetness, a light herbal hop with bare traces of spices, and a chocolate and caramel maltiness in the finish with a lingering fruitiness.
A nice dunkel lager, easy drinkability, purchased for $1.99 a bottle, so I feel it also affordable.
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