Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkel
Aying, Germany

500 ml bottle purchased at Lukas in Overland Park, Kansas. Pour is mostly clear caramel brown, cola, with a two inch tan head that falls fairly quick. Aroma of sweet caramel toffee malt, toasty bread grain, and some apple fruit sweetness. There is also a faint roasted background, just a whisper. Taste is the toasted grain and sweet malt initially, with the apple fruit elements trailing in the finish. The roast is not present until the longish finish. Palate is medium to thin, highly carbonated. This is a smooth, drinkable beer, but just a bit too sweet for my liking.

Bottle. Pours a very nice dark amber with a tan head. Smells roasty and a bit fruity. Tastes like it smells and looks. Nice robust chocolate/black coffee flavor with a nice malt hop balance. Very complex for a lager. Not a big fan of lagers, but this one might change my mind completely. Doesn’t finish clean like a lot of lagers. The coffee lingers on, which is nice. Thus is just a great beer.

Tap @ Aying. Pours cloudy amber with a creamy white head and lacings. Chewy malty. A bit of bread, fruit, grain and lots of caramel. Smooth and full palate. Taste is liquorice, caramel and bread - vaguely roasted. Nice

500 ml bottle poured in dimpled mug. Pours cola like with a slight red hue with a small head that fades quick. Aroma is fruit. figs, some chocolate. Taste is about the same with some brown sugar lots of roasted malts. Finishes dry . very smooth and sweet.

Nice and roasty. A bit fruity. Oranges and lemons. Caramel too. This is kind of all over the place. I lik eit.

Toffee, light coffee, sour apple and bread aroma. Cola-like appearance, with a creamy low carb. head. Flavor has plenty of toffee and sour apple with some brown sugar as well. Palate is bubbly and creamy. A pretty good dunkel.

Pours a clear brown with a slight reddish tint and small white head that dissipates rather quickly. Aroma is plum, raisin, peace, fig, and a candy like malt. Sweet dark fruit notes are accentuated in the malt character, subsiding into cherry and cranberry. Flavor starts with a mild resinous hop presence and flows into a somewhat sweeter, overripe fruit nature. Palate is lightly prickling, and silky, but not syrupy. Leaves a sugary coating with mild dryness. Very nice.

First thing: Took off the cap - smelt exactly like dry cat food - exactly - that is a dead-on smell as I’ve ever had. I don’t care what anyone else has said in their reviews, if you have a bottle of this, get some dry cat food and compare when you open - it’s dead on - every other review is sub-par on aroma. Still does in the glass - that sweet, dry cerealish....can’t get around that. Guess I like cat food cause this beer is awsome! A modest head arose then disapeared leaving a closer to tan than white coating. The taste is what makes this beer. Still some dry cat food hanging around (I’ve tried all my cats food before, so I guess I’m an expert) but it’s better than average dry hoppy finish, mild malts and slight sourness is what really impresses me. Beautiful reddish brown looks killer in my glass which is quickly getting more and more empty due to endless sips. Creamy dry bitter malty finish. Excellent. Remember - Dry cat food in liquid form. Don’t think about that too much or you’ll start to feel sick.