Ammerndorfer Spezial

Brewed by Dorn-Bräu Ammerndorf
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Ammerndorf, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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bottle. cookie dough, toasted cracker and biscuit Munich malt throughout with a soft and mild hop peppercorn spiciness. body a bit thin and watery, but the cookie dough and combination of toasted grain / cereal powder and light yeastiness give it a pleasant rusticity.

courtesy of Markus Kohli - clear golden-bronze beer with a chaotic and poor foam left; a bit chewy in the nose, cheap hops reminding of urin; pretty sweet, medium-bodied; low bitterness; residual sweetness and some flowery tones in the finish

Pours a hazy and amber beer with an off white head. The aroma is malt and sweetness. The flavor follows the nose closely.

Botlle. Dark hazy amber, fluffy offwhite lace. Bready grain, caramel, light fruity notes. Minerally on the tip of the tongue, bready, light roasted sugar and honey, grassy and herbal hops towards the finish. Fullbodied, mellow mouthfeel, a little bit sugary stickyness. Butterscotch retronasal.

Pours amber with a white head. Aroma is dry breaddy malt and fruity notes. Flavour is breaddy toffee, light alcohol, light grass and fruity notes.

Dark golden with a small white head. Malty aroma, with a hint of dusty hay. Sweetish rich malty flavour with hay and grass, and a medium bitter finish.

Bottle @ Bierzwerg.de. Pours dark golden with a small white head and lacings. Very bready, with quite some grass and hay. Smooth and medium bodied. Slight fruity tartness.

0.5 l bottle. Amber color. Toffeish and grassy aroma with some flowery notes. Sweet toffeish and grassy flavor with nutty finish. Soft palate, low carbonation. Very grassy, tastes as bit stale (BB May 2012).

500ml bottle. Clear dark amber with average frothy white head. Malt aroma has hay, straw, something like laurel or so. Taste has "darker", "deeper", "heavier" malt notes, bread, grain, decent sweetness. Cautious, lacks some breadth.

Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass zippy, nice head. Starts strong and spicy, modest dry. Bitter background. Finish hard-metallically, less spicy than the beginning. Not my favourite.