1.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
Bottle sample courtesy of my friend Nick- A deep cola pour with a frothed beige cap. Nose of spoiled cabbage and smoke, some fruit. Tastes of sweet cabbage, smokey chocolate, bitter fruits. Medium bodied, nasty cabbage aftertaste. Drainpour.
2.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle: Pours black with a fuge fizzy hear. The fizz never leaves. I like to share my beer. For this beer, I shared it with my sink. Bad.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draft. Pours dark brown with a thin beige head. Sweet malty aroma with some coffee hints. The flavor has sweet malts, a light roast, and toasted grains. Decent.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught. Pors a dark brown. Very malty and chocolatey almost a scwarzbier. Mild hops to finish.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Clear mahogany with chestnut lowlights and a medium quickly dissipating tan topper leaves some minor lacing. Aroma of dark malts, toffee, nuts, brown sugar and toasted malt. Taste is malty with dark toasted malt, nut bark and light chocolate. Not terribly flavorful and finishes with some roasted malt astringency.
1.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 5/20
A tawny pour, cloudy with ruby highlights and an over-the-top four inch light hazelnut head. A very forward dried fruit profile laced with a syrupy sweet caramel, a bit of spice, likely from some citric hops, and a not-to-pleasant phenolic sting of lacquer. Whoa, this beer is wildly spicy, a bitter bite that jumps to the fore and sinks in past the finish, razzing almost any other palatable sense moot. Getting past that (or attempting to), the beer is medium-light weigh, with extremely strong carbonation. The flavor is a bit fruity and roasty... but honestly, this beer is unpalatable. Somebody turned up the dial on the astringent/bitter characteristics of this beer way too high. Perhaps I got a bad batch? Who knows....
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Nose is medium roasted malts with some nuts and caramel. Taste is slightly sweet with more of the same. Nothing much happening.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tap at Blind Tiger. Poured a deep browwn with a thin bead. Nose is yeasty,malty and a bit musty. A thin bodied slightly hoppy brown ale. Something tastes a touch off, maybe it’s the miusty nose comin through in the flavor.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Atwater Dunkel--Dark Lager--2004 12 oz. Bottle. 5.50% ABV. 24 IBU’s. (4.0 / 5.0) Beer of the Month Club Selection August, 2004. Mild sediment. Tight tan mild lacy head. Hazy dark brown color. Mild toasted hop front. Smooth sweet toasted caramel mellow cherry fruit ester body. Clean mild tangy hop citrus ester end. Nice. Sampled 10/28/2004.
Atwater Dunkel Dark Lager--2006 12 oz. Bottle. 5.40% ABV. 24 IBU’s. (3.75 / 5.0) Beer of the Month Club Selection May, 2006. Mild head. Slightly cloudy dark bronze red color. Mild sweet rich toasted cherry caramel smooth malty lager body with smoky hints. Fruity aftertaste. Easy mild hop yeasty end. OK. Sampled 6/3/2006.
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