Bruggsmidjan Kaldi Dökkur

Brewed by Bruggsmidjan
Style: Dunkel/Tmavý
Dalvík Árskógssandur, Iceland

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Amber, brown colored brew. Bit fruity and malty. Sweet flavor and a bit bitterness in the end. Not too bad, not too interesting.

Pours a three finger cream head that stays leaving a good lace. Deep mahogany color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Piney, malty nose. Flavor is roasted/burnt caramel, slight bitter finish. 330ml bottle 246 ISK ~ $2.95 Vínbúõin Hvolsvelli, Iceland. From my notes - 7/22/2008.

Bottle. Clear brown colour with large creamy off-white mostly lasting head. Aroma is roasted malt with notes of caramel. Sweet flavor. Oily palate.

UPDATED: JUL 18, 2012 The second beer from the first microbrewery in Iceland, this time a czech dunkel. The ingridients list is the same is in the pilsner version; Saaz hops, imported malt from the Czech Republic, water and yeast. Anyway ... Pours a dark red colour, very firm but thin head. Whole lot of lacing! More aromatic than the traditional Kaldi, small hints of hops, grass and malt. Taste is a bit dry, hints of dried fruits, malt, those distinguished saaz hops, small hints of nuts and biscuits. Very pleasant and smooth palate, nicely balanced carbonation. .

UPDATED: APR 8, 2013 draft at 73 Restaurant and Cafe This was called Kaldi dark by Johanna the bartender. The beer poured a deep dark amber but not opaque with a nice beige head. This is a very balanced beer with a sweet aroma of caramel malts and so is the flavor. The beer also had an acidic side almost like cider mash. The carbonation was average for the medium body beer. The finish was sweet but smooth. No bitterness in the aftertaste.

Poured this beer from a bottle into a pint glass to drink. It had a dark, clear amber-brown color with a good-sized creamy tan head that had good retention and slight cling. The beer had a malty aroma with scents of caramel and coffee, and a bit of grainy hops. The taste was fairly sweet with a good coffee taste with touches of chocolate and caramel and a very slight bitterness. It had a fairly creamy, smooth body with light carbonation and a low amount of carbonation.

Pours brown, red under light, with a two finger off-white head that leaves nice lacing. Aroma is muted, some caramel, sweetness, bread. Sweet flavor, caramel malts, some dark fruit, light bitterness, bread. Semi-dry, refreshing finish. Definitely sweet, though. Medium carbonation. Didn’t know what to expect with this one and was pleasantly surprised.

Pours a nice deep and dark reddish brown. Thin head, but persistent enough with some lacing. The aroma has roasted, somewhat smokey and sweetly thick toffee malts. The smell reminds me a bit of a bigger porter... the Mini Me version. It’s much thinner than I expected and really a refreshing beer. I’ve never been much into the Dunkels or, not counting Baltic Porters, the darker lagers in general, but this is an easily approachable beer. Mostly smokey malts in the flavour with the hops being more noticable in mouthfeel and the aftertaste. It’s funny, but along with some lingering smokiness (again I think of much bigger beers for what flavours I notice, but of course there isn’t a lot of them) there is a hint of grass or even some mountain herbs, I’d venture. What the aftertaste really reminds me of is picking norther crowberries in the fall. There’s interesting stuff going on here, but I would like the beer to flaunt it some more and that mouthfeel is on the thin side for my tastes. Still,in my mind Kaldi is the indisputed top of the Icelandic brew chain.

330ml bottle from Vinbudin, Reykjavik. Big foamy lasting beige head. Clear brown body. Roasted, with whiff of prunes, anice and vanilla rods. A bit sweet in taste though, looks a bit better than it tastes. Shared at Rating Session in Tårnrommet 22.06.11

Bottle in a restaurant in Akureyri, Iceland. Pours reddish brown with a thick, short lived tan head. Aroma is a sweet maltiness. Caramel, roasted malts and some bread. Hint of vanilla. Taste is sweet and dry with a short to moderately long finish and a good amount of carbonation.