Capital Munich Dark

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Pours to a huge frothy rocky off-white head. The body is a dark brown with red hilights. The aroma is alcoholic roasted sweet malts. Bread dough. The flavor is toffee, bread, and tea. Unfortunately, it’s a little weak. I get a light dry chalkyness too. Strange. Overall, a decent beer but comes off a little weak in the flavor dept.

UPDATED: JUL 28, 2005 Deep reddish mahogany, off-white head. Nose very malty, sweet caramel, bit of roast, some breadiness. Great maltiness in flavor, sweet caramel at first, finishes with a long pull of toffee. Loads of brown sugar as well, really nice. Some more bread and a bit of dark fruit, like a liquid muffin of dunkely joy. Creamy, rich, phenomenal palate. Capital, I like you.

UPDATED: AUG 15, 2005 Bottle. Deep Ruby color, somewhat hazy. Flavors of slightly sweet coffee and roasted malts. Smooth on the palate with a lively carbonated mouthfeel. Comes across well put together and there is nothing bad that stands out. This is a good dunkel.

What a lovely, lovely pour. Dark caramel with a smallish light tan head that collapses down into a dense ring that sheets the glass with finely structured lace. The aroma is also lovely, it just screams munich, sweet and earthy dopplebock-esque caramel notes. Flavor-wise things hold together quite well, loads of caramel throughout. Unbaked whole-wheat dough, toffee, syrup, and some earthiness that grounds the whole cavalcade. The palate is outstanding. It is full soft and not at all syrupy. Not at all highly carbonated or prickly. Bitterness and acifity are almost non-existent. Wow a fantastic brew and one of the best that I have tried from Capital, which is high praise as their other beers are quite good. Now Playing: Pelican - Australiasia.

2004 or 2005 bottle big thanks to Robertsreality, this was awesome! Light caramel/muted-nut-brown with some light oak tones on the edges. Light beige/dark-eggshell head recedes fairly rapidly to ring. Only lightly filtered. Rich 2-row and munich malt aroma is immediately perceived. Dark, rich, soily black earth, with some light vinous notes. Flavor has a fantastic amount of malt. Caramel, brown bread dough. Rich dark sugar and caramelized honey. Rich English toffee. But through all of the richness, it is horribly drinkable! Lightly yeasty, dry earthy notes on end. Low hops bitterness and flavor. Natural mouthfeel with low carbonation, very aerated texture. I could definitely stand to drink this as my session beer day in and day out. Bits of berry skins linger with some leafy, foresty hops flavor.

i don’t think Cap makes a bad beer. Very decent dunkel, if not as malty as some imports.

I dig the big german theme they have at this places, its cool to get lots of styles in a wisconsin interpretation. Darker than amber. Hmm, maybe i will say brown sugar malts, as it had a little dark feel, but not too much. Fairly decent i must say.

Dark ruby color with a small tan head. Aroma and flavor of toffee, caramel and chocolate.