Efes Dark Brown

Brewed by Anadolu Efes
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Istanbul, Turkey

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Bottle at Pat’s birthday tasting at chriso’s. Pours clear brown with a foamy, white head. Sweet coffee nose. Cappuccino. Very sweet flavor, mocha, creamy cappuccino. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, more mocha. I would say the beer is heavily underrated.

Bottle as pictured, clear bottle with brown beer. Smells very strongly of coffee, I mean serious coffee smell? Taste is similar but mouthfeel is pretty thin. This is just a meh brown ale. I love coffee beers so I’ll rate this higher than most, probably.

3rd December 2011
ChrisOs Early December Tasting. Clear dark brown beer, big pale tan head. Soft semi dry palate. Sweet cappucino nose. Taste follows the nose, mellow lacto cappucino. Actually not bad at all.

from Belek, Turkey - clear ruby-brown beer with a solid and creamy beige head; correct lacework; a fair aroma of mocha, toasted with biscuity notes; medium-bodied and creamy palate, moderate sweetness and a low bitterness; long coffeish aftertaste with light chocolatey notes - not bad at all

33 cl bottle at Haket, on July 21, 2012
BB 29/06/12
Dark read to black color, small tan head. Sweet, toffee, alcohol scent. Toffee, coffee taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with medium creamy off-white mostly lasting head. Aroma is caramel and chocolate. Sweet flavor. Creamy palate.

very much coffe and caramel aroma,brown, light brown foam,light sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, soft carbonation, nice coffe finish.

Bottled. A chestnut colored beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma has strong notes of caramel combined with medium notes of malt and light notes of bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and bread. Nice Turkish beer.

By far the best beer I found while on holiday in Turkey (of the 12 tried) in July 2010. 33cl brown twist top bottle (with the ’O’ in brown shaped like a coffee bean). The beer was poured into a pint handled glass mug and looked fine. A coffee dark brown body (what a suprise given it’s name) and a cream coloured head that gave no lacing and disappeared completely after 20 seconds. The smell was all coffee and mocca, as was the taste. I would have liked more body depth, but for a lager based coffee beer it was otherwise very good. The beer was semi-sweet and heavily carbonated. As I stated earlier the best beer I found in Turkey.

Bottled 330ml. -Brown coloured, medium sized pale brown head, coffee nose with hint of chocolate. Sweet coffee chocolate taste with slightly watery palate. Simple and not so sugary beer as I’ve expected. Pleasant coffee caramel finish and aftertaste. I’m not so big coffee fan but this one is quite nice and also underrated.