Castel Dunkel

Brewed by Brauhaus Castel
Style: Dunkel
Mainz-Kastel (Wiesbaden), Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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on tap at the brewpub. reddish brown. strange aroma of burning hair and nutella. pleasant toasted quality with some caramel but not too much sweetness. quite pleasant

Aroma is grainy bready malt, faint hops. Flavour is medium sweet and malty. Slight fruit note. Light to medium bitterness.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours hazy dark brown with a small. Roasted malty, fruity, caramelish and light chemical. Toast malty, fruity and chemical flavoured. Dry malty and roasted finish.

Muffiger, leicht erdiger Geruch. Wässriger, etwas holziger Antrunk. Mal hopfig, mel herber, dabei rustikal malzig. Im Nachgeschmack ist das Malz etwas feiner, das Bier recht herb und leicht sauer. Mildes Bier. Test vom 11.3.2007, Gebinde: Fass Noten: 8,8,8,7,-,7 - 7,42

Shiny dark amber color with a flat, short-lived head. The smell is much malty with caramel and toffe. Just great. It starts very malty with a slightly sour note. In addition, subtle yeasty and slightly chocolatey. The aftertaste is also very sour, malty, here, the hop comes through something better. The further course seems to be always full-bodied. Wonderful toasty aromas come through, combined with chocolate and caramel. The first harsh acidity lies down something.

2L growler- Shared w/ SkyCop32. Pours a nice deep dark amber. Aromas of caramel and dark malts. Flavors a molasses, fruit and mild hopping.

Tap. Brown sugar malt aroma. Medium brown with moderate head. Molasses and chocolate malt flavor. Decent body. Nice beer.

Draught at the brewpub; Stammwürze 13,2%
Beautiful amber color. It has some caramel aroma, unfortunately also some sourness. And the flavor confirms that an infection or fermentation problem has spoiled this beer, leaving a very light caramel flavor and extremely weak mouthfeel; this one too is not really bitter. They should not sell it in these conditions.

(draught at the brewpub) Hazy, copper colour with a medium-sized beige foamy head. Moderately sweet, minimal toasty malt aroma with a touch of cacao and a good dose of spicy hay-like hops. Light-sweet flavour, slightly toasted malty and subtle fruity taste with a whiff of caramel and cacao; light bodied with a lively, almost fizzy carbonation; moderately dry sweet-bitter finish with a light but present hop character.

On draft at the brauhaus: not as dunkel as I would have thought a dunkel to be. Poured orange/red/brown with a medium beige head. Peppery hop aroma. Fairly big hop flavor with a touch of chocolate malt. Very strong carbonation. Light fruitiness and a moderate sour finish with very mild bitterness. Good.