Holba Dark

Brewed by Pivovar Holba
Style: Dunkel
Hanušovice, Czech Republic

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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(Draught@Kaisla, Helsinki) Clear, dark ruby color with a smallish, tanned head. Faint, fruityish-smoky-malty aroma with some flowery hops and cardboard. Quite smoky, slightly roasted, malty flavor with hints of berries and sugar - plus some cardboard. Light to medium-bodied and sweetish palate with quite lemonadey carbonation. Quite light and watery, sugary-sweet brew. Original flavor, but not that pleasant. Smokiness is a plus.

Draught@Vltava,Helsinki. Poured dark brown color with a white musty head. Quite sweet roasted malt aroma, flavor is sweet malty, bready, bit watery. Overall an easy to drink typical czech dunkel.

Draught at Vltava, Helsinki. Poured an extremely dark red body, almost black with a thick tan head. Sweet creamy nose, raisins. The taste is sweet as well, light raisins again, cranberries maybe or some aspect of their taste anyway, maybe bubblegum. It does sound fruitier in this rate than it is, but it’s just another Czech dunkel. Nice and light, the only "bad" thing being some cardboard somewhere in there, that I might as well have imagined.

Draught at Vltava, Helsinki. Dark mahagony color with creamy head. Sweetish aroma with dark bread and lots of licorice. The flavor is sweetish and malty with dark bread, licorice and low to medium bitterness. Easy dark lager.

Draught a 0.5L glass tasted at Vltava. Pale brown head. Mild malty nose. Slightly sour a little bitter dry taste. Dark reddish brown colour. Roasted maltiness. Somesyrup in the nose and taste. Hoppiness at end.

Draught at Vltava. Dark mahogany, tiny beige head. Almost no aroma, a bit metallic malt and smoke (too cold?) Taste ok, quite blend.

UPDATED: APR 6, 2008 Keg (Vltava, Helsinki) Previous rating was of a duff one, and completely disregarding. Very dark red, healthy tight keggy head. Tart sour blackcurrant and some ashy burnt malts. Fairly fizzy in the mouth, definitely needs swirling. Taste is quite raw, grainy, and slightly husky, with some quite noticable burntness. For best taste, and creamiest palate, swirl plenty and let it get warmer.

Draught at Vlatva, Helsinki. Pitch black with a cream head; smoky aroma; smooth and easy to drink with chocolate and coffee flavours; bitter chocolate finish. A straightforward dunkel.

Draught@Kaisla
Dark brown, almost opaque. Creamy fluffy brown head. Sweetish nose (unclean tap?). Light bodied, roasted, coffee flavors. Easy to drink, thin dunkel.

Tapped. Dark red colour with beige foamy head. Sweet plummy aroma with hints of smoke. Fruity malt flavour with hints of plum and smoke. Not typical Czech dark beer, so it was a positive surprise to drink this one.