Gluek Dunkel

Formerly brewed at Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Cold Spring, Minnesota USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Consumed as Gluek Dark, at Glueks bar, downtown Minneapolis. For anyone who hasn’t been, this bar is a good time, quality of the beer aside. I was already in the bag from goldschlager and vodka-cranberry, but this dark brown beer is fairly called a dunkel or vienna. Some malt and a mild roasted character. Probably the least bad beer I have had from this brewery.

This beer has the color and appearance of bar Coke - a little flat, a little watered down. Now just toss on a thin cap of whitish beer foam, and there you have it. No lacing. Aroma... nope. Taste... returning to the watered down theme, this tastes like a diluted mild dark lager, like maybe Mich Dark after you melted a couple ice cubes in it. Barely perceptable sweet malt flavor - if I told you that I tasted chocolate or caramel or roasted grains I’d be lying. Hops... fuhgettaboutit. A little undercarbonated, exceptionally thin and watery body and mouthfeel. Now for the good news - I saved money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

UPDATED: JAN 18, 2004 Dark brown color,small light tan head that faded fast.Malty caramel aroma with maybe a slight hop presence but very faint,The brew definately is fairly sweet.Very light taste light malt caramel faint hops again and lots of water very thin bodied brew with very little to offer that you can't get from the tap in the kitchen.