Bakalář Tmavý Ležák 12° (Dark Lager)

Brewed by Pivovar Rakovnik
Style: Dunkel
Rakovnik, Czech Republic

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium beige head. Aroma was of mildly roasted, sweet malt. Flavor was of roasted, sweet malt; caramel; and bread. Very mildly hopped. Some strong mineral/metallic flavors that I found very unpleasant. A nice, basic dunkel (except for the metal taste).

A basic czech dark lager. Dark brown beer with a tiny head. The aroma is a little boring, just some plain malts, still it’s rather inviting. The taste has some syrupy malts.

50cl bottle. Dark color, very rich taste, sweet, almost too much. Nice head that lasted quite long. OK, nothing special

500ml bottle. Color is almost dark brown almost black, no head. Taste is sweet, has caramel, roasted hops and some fruitiness in it. Pretty ok.

Bottle. Nice head with excellent duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are rich caramel, roast malt, hops and nuts.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized bubbles that were quickly diminishing and left behind a . The mild aroma was brown malt. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of brown malt. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottle 50cl.
Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, bread, brown sugar, burnt notes, berry notes. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light to moderate burnt dusty bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090626]

Bottle from Keg Liquor. Poured clear darl brown color with a large frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Moderate toasted caramel malty aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium toasted sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met with a soft sweet beer.