Jacobsen Original Dark Lager

Brewed by Husbryggeriet Jacobsen (Carlsberg)
Style: Dunkel
Valby, Denmark

A dark reddish amber lager with a thin light moka head. Aroma is pleasant, sweet caramel, light vanilla, very good. In m outh, a sweet mlat, with oily mouthfeel, very fruity, light cloves, some molasses. Overall, very plesant. Bought at LCBO, gift back x-mas 2007, so beer is one year old.

Dark ruby brown, quick light beige head. Rye bready, rusty and roasty aroma. Slightly metallic, dry rye bready flavor, strong rust, herbal hoppy finish. Little dry fruits and liquorice. Quite a dull dunkel.

courtesy of Laurent Mousson - amber colour, beige foam; aroma of molasses and dark sugar; sweet and chewy palate, moderate malt body; moderate hoppy and fruity finish

Amber with a small off-white head. Grainy and bready malt aroma with some caramel. Sweet and clean malty flavour.

Bottle. Taste is sweet with lightly roasted malts, its malts has character of caramel and plum flavors. Sweet malts with light molasses.

<b>12-Sep-08</b> <i>(750-ml bottle: Purchased 09-Feb-08 for $5.99 at Ledger’s Liquors in Berkeley, CA)</i> This is certainly an uncomplicated brew. A straight-shooter, the sweet, caramely and chocolaty malt easily dominates, with notes of earth and toast. The beer seems fairly well oxidized as well, but this is more of a sherry-like oxidation rather than wet cardboard, and maybe even helps to smooth out the beer further. On the palate, the beer is medium in weight, sweet but not cloying, and moderately carbonated but soft and smooth. Chocolate, toasty bread and caramel in the nose, simple and straight forward like the flavor, but enticing. The beer pours rather pale for a dark lager, but I guess everything is relative. Orange-amber in color and fairly hazy with a light-tan head that rises to half an inch before settling to a thin ring. Overall, it’s a bit simple, lacking the depth or richness of German dunkels, but it’s smooth, easy to drink, and enjoyable enough to down this 750 without a second thought.

(Denmark) Pours a med-brown color with zero head. The aroma is of walnuts, caramel, and dark malts. Taste is much of the same but the walnut flavor really comes through. The mouthfeel is smooth and has little or no carbonation. Pretty drinkable dunkel !!!

Bottle shared by BeerGestapo. Thanks Mike. Pours murky brown with hints of red, zero head even after a rough pour. Smells of toffee, dough, caramel, and dark fruit. Taste exactly like it smells with a walnut finish. Good, not great, a tad too sweet. It seems like everyone rated this one low because it is from Carlsberg but it really isn’t bad.