Brink’s Dark

Brewed by Rethymnian Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Rethymno, Crete, Greece

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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(Bottled, BBE 12/2007, thanks to my sister) Opaque, darkish orange with a small, lacy and partly lasting head. Lightly flowery aroma of partly roasted malt. A bit ashy, dry and malty flavor with little hops and some cardboard. Seems not to be in a prime condition, although not past BBE. Light to medium-bodied with quite low, slightly fizzy carbonation. Looks like a Belgian tripel, but the flavor is unfortunately from a dull and tasteless dunkel. A fresher bottle could have gotten a better score.

Bottle. Pours a orange-red body, with a low white head that leaves almost no lacing. Weird aroma, just when I opened the bottle. Smells like soap, with notes of malt. Lyckily, it fades away after a while. Also, indifferent flavor. Medium body, oily texture. I don’t know... I’ve expected a lot more from this beer. Below average, but it can be better.

Tawny amber with a puffy white head that leaves some trails. Cinnamon and carob dark malt nose. Brown bread toast, some toffee or Werther’s Original, a saltiness, then earthy wintery spice hops. Medium, tingly, slight chew. A very light dunkel, but flavorful and drinkable. *from notes

Clear red colour with a small white head. Light malty aroma with caramel. Light palate. Ok malty caramel flavour.

Sprayers you in the head by opening the patent bottle. when its called dark I expect that it is brown or darker. This beer is more orange. The taste is mild and hoppy and well rounded. a good thirst-quenching beer, which despite the name is not very much "dark" purchased on Crete

33cl bottle, flip-top. BBE 01/2012. From supermarket in Platanias, Crete. Poured sl. hazy amber color with a fluffy, lasting head. Caramel aroma, some hints of coffee as well. Flavor is roasted malt, chocolate and hops. Finish is long and strong of coffee. Thin, but overall quite pleasant.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden with a big off-white/beige head. Bit of lacing. Sweet cereal aroma with notes of cooked vegetables and some bread deep in the background. As it warms it develops a tart note, which feels like the beer’s infected. Flavour is sweet cereals/malt with a somewhat spicy note. Bitter (in an annoying way) and tart finish with cooked vegetable notes lingering. A bit too much carbonation. Bad. 26.08.11.

Light amber colour with some haze. The aroma is lightly toasty. Toasty palate with light caramel and hints of toast. That’s just a lot of toast, far too much.

Bottle at a harbour restaurant, Rhethymnon. Pours clear dark amber/mahogany with a big creamy light tanned head. Malty aroma. Taste is darkmalty, light roasted coffee and chocolate. Slightly bitter towards the end.

Bottled. Dark orange colour with creamy head. Weird beer again from Rethymno. A really ugly looking beer. Doughy nose, oxidized hops and not much of dark malts either. Just dough and faint caramel. Astringent. Old chocolate. Low bitterness.

Bottle@Hotel. Malts, herbs and a hint of oxidization in the aroma. Cloudy, red/brown, off-white irregular tiny head, no lace. Sweet, dark malts, hint of sourness, cardboard. Sparkling. Very German but badly done.