3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/2012 ounce bottle into pilsener glass, bottled on 9/16/2011. Pours fairly crystal clear red amber color with a 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of pear, apricot, caramel, toast, molasses, light chocolate, toffee, dark bread, and light herbal. Nice and pleasant aromas with decent strength and balance; a bit too fruity, probably because of age. Taste of pear, caramel, butterscotch, toffee, toast, molasses, light chocolate, dark bread, and light herbal. Lingering notes of light fruit, caramel, toffee, butterscotch, toast, light chocolate, molasses, and herbal on the finish for a short bit. Solid balance of flavors with a fair amount of robustness; zero cloying sweetness on the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a lightly slick and smooth mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with almost no warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a nice dunkel. A nice amount of flavors with good balance; very smooth to drink. A quite enjoyable dunkel offering.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Dark brown pour with a thin, fizzy head. Chocolate and roasted malt aroma. Semi sweet malty flavor eventually fades to a somewhat bitter, cocoa finish. Watery texture with average carbonation. Good but expected a little more body, even for this style.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft at Bar 30 (from backlog). Pours a nice deep brown with a medium head. Slight aroma of grains and malt. Flavors are similar - thin and quickly dissipate. Grainy and thin mouthfeel. Not so good.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Appearance: Pours a dark brown with a nice head, but it fizzles away pretty quickly. There’s no lacing.
Smell: About what you’d expect from the smell of a malt-forward beer... extremely malty, with some slight spice. A generic kind of comment, but that’s really what it smells like.
Taste: It’s pleasant, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so much like a lager. Being a lager, it’s extremely drinkable, but it’ has a somewhat watery consistency, and it’s lacking big, bold flavor. It’s a tasty beer, and a dunkel that could actually be very refreshing on a hot summer day, if you’re craving a dark beer that isn’t too heavy. In that instance, this would be an excellent beer. For its style, it’s actually very quite good. As a whole though, it’s nothing too special. It is probably the most drinkable dark lager beer that I’ve ever had though, so that counts for something.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Nutty, toasty chocolate malt aroma. Clear chestnut with a small off-white head, moderate open lacing. Nutty roasty malt flavor with a slight roasty bitter finish. Light body, moderate carbonation.
2.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cola colored with almost no head and a light sweet aroma. Modest sweet flavor with a thinn finish. Not my idea of a dunkel but palatable.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Moderate dark bread and toasted for the malt, light herbs for the hops, with a background note of wood. Head is small, frothy light tan, with some slippery lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is clear mahogany. Flavor starts lightly sweet and acidic, then finishes lightly acidic and bitter. Palate is medium, watery with a lively carbonation. Easy drinking, but mostly a bland Dunkel.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a clear dark copper-brown color with a medium dense off-white head that dissipates slowly. Strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of bready malt and hops. Light body with flavors of toasted malt, grain and grassy hops. The finish is short with a caramel malt aftertaste. Just average overall.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a typically carbonated transparent cola brown colored body and a thick foamy lacing. The weak aroma was malty. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin flavor contained notes of mild brown malt and brown malt. An OK brew just nothing special.
1.6 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 7/20
Barely there aroma and attractive brown pour with a balanced taste and minimal mouthfeel.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deaft. Pours reddish-brown with a short, tan head. Scent is bready. Taste is sweet but flat. fairly average dunkel.
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
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