Benešov Ferdinand Tmavý Ležák 11°

Brewed by Ferdinand Benesov
Style: Dunkel/Tmavý
Benesov u Prahy, Czech Republic

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Darkbrown with a creame head. Aroma is malty, slightly roasted. Taste is sweet malt and light hop.

UPDATED: JUN 19, 2010 500ml bottle (K CM, Kamppi)
Deep red, brief spongy beige head. Rich grainy aroma, sweet. Really grainy in fact, some huskiness. But also really sweet. Smooth, sweet body, rich roasty and sugary retronasals, carbonation soft. Residual sugars not only high, but I notice there’s saccharin in the ingredients, which I have to penalise them for. Tasty roast, but just too sweet. Drinkable, but leaves me thirstier due to the stickiness! (6:4:6:4:10=3.0)
Rerate: 500ml bottle (K CM, Kamppi)
5+ simple sweet dark lager aroma, tough of roast.
4 dark red, ring head
6 bacony retronasals. Pleasant roasty taste, quite dry in the burntness
3 refreshing palate, carbonation crisp.
12 more burnt and less sweet than the average czech dunkel.

(bottle) pours a dark ruby-brown colour with a frothy tan head. faint aroma of toasted malts with a hint of smoke and dark chocolate. flavour is the same, though more powerful, the roasted malts being especially dominant. medium body and carbonation with a nice roasted-bitter finish.

Clear dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 090412

Bottle, tasted in Copenhagen. Malty, slight roastbitter flavor. Hint of apple syrup. Caramel. Malty caramelly aroma. Some grassy hopbitterness in the aftertaste. Well made but not outstanding Czech dunkel.

Bottle. Red brown colour with a off-white head. Light roasted malty coffee aroma and taste. Medium body and a light sweet finish.

Draught at Ølbaren. Clear red brown coloured with a beige head. Sweet aroma of malts, caramel, hops and fruits. Sweet malty flavour of fruits, caramel and hops.

Bottle probably from the Albert hypermarket in Chodov, Prague, shared with heavy
Poured a dark red body going black with a beige head that went away at a medium pace. Dry malty nose reminiscent of milk caramel, slightly roasty and sweet. Light roasty taste with notes of caramel, dry, not all that sweet for a Czech dunkel... maybe more coffeeish than chocolatey, but both descriptors are a bit stretched. Even some extremely weak notes of herbal hop floated in for a second once. It’s an ok dark beer that’s more a schwarzbier than a dunkel in my book but still not enough to care about it. All in all, a solid enough choice in a Czech supermarket.

Bottle from Mahlers Vinhandel, Frederikshavn. Nutty, sweet, some grain, some roasted malt, a hint of soot. A bit too thin and bland.

Tap: Dark brown with a red hew. White head. Malty roasted (caramel) light sweet flavour. Watery body.Easy metallic notes. Short dry easy bitter finish. OK pleasant!