Augsburger Dark

Formerly brewed at Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Slightly sweet roasted caramel maltiness, but very watered-down and illusary. Virtually no hop profile and a very watery finish. This looked so much better than it tasted!

Handome pour, dark chestnut with ruby highlights and a creamy tan head that hangs around for a while. The aroma is a sweet-yet stale caramel, perhaps lightly roasted. Very thin, watery palate. It tastes like the brewer intended it to be malty, but watered away the caramel sweetness. Hops appear quietly and briefly in the finish. As a dunkel, this is a so-so American dark lager.

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Pours light reddish-brown with medium head. Mild malty aroma. Taste was mild malt with some hop, but both were overpowered by the strong carbonation. Definitely left a tingle on the tongue.

Mmmm. Better than Creamy Dark! Yes, entree into the quite good range with this one. I like the snappiness (some corniness mutes that a bit) but no real sweetness and even a tingly hop bite (of the pencil shavings variety). Thinner than desired, but a nice and very easy-drinking surprise.

This bottled brew poured a medium sized head of light brown colored fine to medium sized mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a transparent carbonated ruby red brown colored body. The aroma was sweetly malty. The mouth feel was mild and smooth initially with a tingly finish. The flavor was mild astringent and contained sweet malts with a mild hop background.

Dark brown dunkel, that’s kinda flat with a slight caramel flavor. Nothing exciting here and why is it in a green bottle?

Bottle. Mostly diminishing small tan head with fine, small and medium sized bubbles, fair lacing, transparent, carbonation, and a reddish brown hue. Malty, caramel, slightly roasty nose. Sweet, malty, caramel, roasty, and smooth flavor. Smooth mouthfeel and light body.

Bottle poured a clear dark brown with a small amber head. Aromas of carmel and burnt toast with some sour notes. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of carmelized malt, some nuttiness and a bit of smoke with a sweet finish.