Barre Dunkel

Brewed by Privatbrauerei Ernst Barre
Style: Amber Ale
Lübbecke, Germany

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Draught at BBF12. Mildly roasted bread aroma and flavour. Very dark brown colour, clear. The flavour starts off bready, turning a little grainy. Not bad.

International Green Week, Berlin 2012: at last we reach Hall 12, the hall dedicated to German breweries and food to go with beer. We find a table and seats by the Andechs bar leave the womenfolk to keep the area safe. I amble a few yards and notice a brewery bar I’ve never heard of before: Privatbrauerei Ernst Barre, the Pilsner first, I went back for the Dunkel soon after! The Dunkel is dark, a very dark brown, clear but almost too dark to see through, even when held up to a strong light source. The head was a medium thick covering of foam, off-white/beige in colour. Lightly roasted malts hit the nose, semi-sweet molasses (toffee, coffee, caramel), biscuits and toast. Flavours in the mouth are also heavy on the malt content; some fruit type tastes also come into play after the initial flavours reduce their impact: the hops prevent the beer becoming too sweet but add very little bitterness to the overall feel of the beer which I thought was nicely balanced. I do prefer the sweetish maltier brews usually and this was an ideal beer to have before the ‘Liebinger Zeppelin’ I was to have next.

The beer in the glass is very dark brown, almost black, with white and fine head. The beer smells bitter roasted malty, slight coffee flavor. Starts with bitter roasted coffee aromas, very intense malty, with lots of caramel. The middle part is very caramel-dominant malty, with a bit of toffee in the background. Goes in a caramelly finish with roasted malts and hints of coffee!

33cl bottle from Bierzwerg. Poured colabrown, thin beige head. High carbonation. Aroma is sweet caramel malt, some roasted notes as well, as well as some dark bread. Flavor is sweet caramel mostly, quite dull and uninteresting. Aroma promised more.

Herb-malziger, deutlich muffiger Antrunk. Wässriger im Mittelteil, geringfügig säuerlich-bitter, das Malz ist weitestgehend verflogen. Im Abgang nur noch wässrig, langweilig, keine Spur von Malz. Lahmes Dunkles. 9/6/5/5/8/5

Bottle. Dark chestnut brown, offwhite lacing creamy head. Light roast and fresh bitterhop aroma. Fullbodied, bready, roasted malt, good aromatic and bitter hop balance, maybe a tad metallic. Fine sparkly mouthfeel. Pleasant.

Bottle. Sweet caramel malt, sour milk and light hops aroma. Dark brown color with moderate tan head. Sweet caramel malt and lightly bitter grass hops. Not bad - very unusual.

Bottle: Aroma is light malty with some strange smoked components. Flavor is malty but with some "cheap" malt nuances. some roasty malts in the end, light dry finish.

Draught @ Hof-Apotheke, Marktplatz 5, 31675 Bückeburg, Röcke, Niedersachsen, Germany.
Clear medium to dark red brown amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, toffee, butter notes, dark chocolate notes, burnt malt notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090904]