Calumet Dark

Brewed by Rowlands Calumet Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Chilton, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Brown with a ruby brightness. Nutty fresh malt, subtle deeper malts exude raisins, nuts, and toasted bread. . . a wonderful slow hoppy/woody finish, very nice. Cheers Argo0!

Dark molasses brown. Big aroma of toffee, raisins, toasted malts. Slightly wet palate. Toffee and brown sugar sweetness offset toasty, slightly woody notes. Hint of peat. Interesting beer, with more assertive roastiness than you'd expect in a dunkel.

RateBeer Summer 2003: Brown ruby color with large bubbles. Deep rich malts that have a slightly roasted quality. Thin and fizzy, but not bad for the style. A very good (and until recently overrated) lager.

Dark Roasty aroma. Roasty almost creosote-y aroma. A tad out of balance toward the burnt/roast flavors, but a really nice dark lager.

Summer Gathering 2003: Brown with a little head (off growler), clear. Sweet, chocolate nose, touch of port wine. Odd, surprising winey notes in the flavor; a bit thin; hints of coffee. Good as lagers go, but seemed to be lacking some oomph. Maybe I just set my expectations too high.

Sweet, malty, doughy aroma, with definite brown sugar and caramel, along with some breadiness and cocoa. Deep brown in color with a small but creamy head. Flavor is very sweet, malty and faintly spicy, with some nut, coffee, caramel and yeast. Exceedingly smooth, creamy mouthfeel. Slightly chocolatey aftertaste. Seemingly unique. How funny the "controversy" that has surrounded this particular beer for so long here.

Dark brown with ruby glints visible in the glass. Wonderful, mild aroma of molasses, caramel, a bit nutty. Nice, thin palate, but the taste fell short of the scent. Seemed a bit flat.

Cola body with small beige head. Aroma is big malty, toffee/caramel, fairly sweet. Taste is malty, toffee, roasty, caramel. Finishes roasty sweet, no bitterness. Not very complex, but still a very tasty treat.