2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Dark smoky but translucent brown with a malty aroma. Hints of smoke, toastiness, raisan, perhaps oyters in the flavor. Not strong bodied. A bit of hops toward the end, but the finish is fading. Not terrible, but not a great beer.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Bottle. Clear dark brown with an insubstantial white head. Nose: walnuts and raisons, both weak. Taste: slightly overdone wheat toast. Very thin body.
1.6 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 7/20
Very thin. Minor roasted aroma and flavor, with just a little smoke. Along the lines of Warsteiner dark.
2.4 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
weak to nonexistant aroma, body is dark brown with a thin white head. flavor is weak malts, with a little bit of sweetness. a very thin watery body. i expected more flavor and character from a dunkel.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: SEP 26, 2006 The following was a rating for DAB Traditional: This oddly obscure "An Ale" is a puzzlement. It comes across more like an American dark lager than anything else, brown with a roasty nose, lightly sweet malt tastes. Fairly light bodied with a mildly bitter finish, I’m not sure what I just drank. <font size=-4><a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp? Liquors, Calumet City, IL<font size=-1> Earlier Rating: 3/28/2005 Total Score: 2.7 Looks real nice, but it’s a fairly watered down dunkel. The clear brown coloring promises some good, solid maltiness, but it’s very light on the nose. Likewise with the taste - a little caramel malt, a hint of smoke, a bit of a spritzy feel in the throat. Not bad, but not real good. The above combo rating is a result of having DAB Traditional combined with this dunkel.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Smells great, looks great, but a bit watery. A nice, malty aroma, a bit sweet, the head dissipates quickly, a there’s a very dark beer. It’s very drinkable, very smooth, a touch of hops, and rather refreshingh. A bit watery though, which dissapoints in the end.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Deep amber/light brown, very clear, with a good head. Aroma is nice an malty with hints of hops. Flavor is malty yet slightly stale with smoe dull cardboard like taste. Somewhat crisp finish but still had a wierd aftertaste. Not that great but not as bad as I was expecting either.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
2004 bottle from Julio’s. Pour is a drab black olive-grey meets dark chestnut brown, very clear and transparent with a poorly retained, fizzy beige head. Aroma and flavor smell like Earl Gray tea, which is fine with me, but it certainly dosent smell much like a dunkel. That’s the first thing that came to mind and it stuck. Dry, black tea leaves, light herbal notes, light nuttiness. Perhaps some light anise flavoring and a very very faint touch of sweet malt on the finish. Peppery carbonation, light body.
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