Dark brown with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and breadish notes. Flavour likewise with a sweet finish.

Dark ruby beer with a small, but lasting off-white head. Toffee and butterscotch in the aroma. Malty sweet with a roasted, dry finish with a metallic note.

On tap at Hospudka v Chaloupce, Plzen., 330ml. Dark brown with ruby highlights with cream head. Thin sweetish beer with vanilla and caramel notes. Some fruitiness, but fairly bland.

From tap at Hospůdka v Chaloupce. Pours dark redish brown with a lacing white head. Roasted malt and light butterish aroma. Aroma is mild roasted malt. Flavour is sweet and roasted malt. Ends mild sweet and dry. Light raisin flavoured too.

Back from a Czech Republic pub-crawl this is part of my express ratings for the “typical” Světlý 11°- (Czech light Pils), Světlý 12°+ (Czech Pils), Polotmavý (Czech Amber Lagers) and Tmavý (Czech Black Lagers). Non-typical beers will receive personalized descriptions after the express ratings.
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How: Tap at Pivovar Berounsky Medved, Beroun, Czech Repulic
The look: Dark ruby body with a large beige head
To me a typical Czech Tmavé (Czech Black Lager) is: Dark malts and barely any roastiness sensation. Some dark fruits flavours (raisins with a little figs, dates and prunes) wrapped in smooth dark caramel (borderline toffee) and a subtle chocolate note. A bit bready. Moderately sweet without much hops presence and only a mild bitterness (voluntary unbalanced it seems). Very smooth body, like a watery cream.
This one: As above but more fruity (borderline fruit juice) even reaching kiwis and tropical fruits flavours. Very bland, borderline bad.