Lakefront Eastside Dark

Aroma is a leathery/toasted malt smell. Has a nice deep, dark amber color to it with a decent disapating white head. Taste a little better than I anticipated, nice roasted coffee flavor with a touch of hops at the finish.

12 oz bottle from Lakefront Sampler from Bottle Barn! Nose smelled good as soon as I opened it, rich caramel and roasty coffee along with some graininess; clear dark amber with a medium straw head; flavor has caramel, very light hop bitterness, and lightly sweet caramel. Decent Dunkel!

12oz bottle. Smooth and creamy. This is a very enjoyable dark beer. Full of flavor but also quite drinkable. Very malt centered beer.

Bottle. Pours clear dark tawny with a small, frothy, off-white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (toasted grain, hay, caramel), average hops (grass), average yeast (broth, musty) with notes of plum. Light bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness; buttered potato, musty and moldy flavor.

Yes this stuff is quite dark. Dark for a dark lager but now I see it is in the dunkel style category. Has a reddish tinge on the corners of the glass. Aroma of good dark beer, perhaps some roastiness in there. Slight creamy head. Very good dark beer flavors, somewhat like a mild porter but more than a dark lager. Rather friendly and easy to enjoy for a lager lover. Decent carbonation. Very little bitterness can be detected thru the session. Some charred flavors without the bitter bite. Well mannered with a slight bitter linger, but i can easily live with it. Enjoyable, would purchase again.

Poured a see through lighter brown color with small amount of fizzy offwhite head. Aroma sweet caramel malts with a slight burnt scent. Flavor mostly sweet light and caramely water but then also has an almost coffeeish bitter finish. Overall, decent.

Bottle. Pour is a dark brown with a one finger high tan head. Aromas are of roasted malt, but not really a roasted barley smelll... almost like oats or wheat that has been burnt slightly. Also comes across as slightly earthy. Flavor is much more in line with roasted barley... a coffee-like burnt taste that is sweetened by a chocolate undercurrent. There is a mildly distracting backnote that is both creamy and sour (like citrus sour?) This sort of builds in the aftertaste and seems to pull against the direction that the beer first seems to want to head. Not bad, but could be much better with a few minor adjustments.

I found it a bit more like a schwartzbier then a dunkel, a bit more roasty and thin bodied, softer on the palate, smooth and lingering chocolate finish. Malts start with a good roasted taste, solid sweeter chocolate and cocoa. Finish was soft and balanced. The carbonation was light so it was smooth on the palate.