Lucky Hand Black Lager

Lucky Hand Brewing Company
Brewed at Uncommon Brewers
Style: Schwarzbier
Novato, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Draft @ SF Beer Week Opening Celebration 2013, Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco, CA. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty weak bready caramel aroma. Slightly roasted malty caramel flavor with weak hints of chocolate. Has a roasted malty caramel finish.

Bomber from Bottle Barn in Santa Rosa, CA. Pours very dark brown with a slight tan head. Nice chocolate aroma with mild florality. So Black California Common. Interesting. Medium body with sharp carbonation. Flavor is smooth dark malt with mixed milk/dark chocolate. There’s definitely some hoppy bitter in the finish. It’s a very nice beer.

22oz bottle with the red label. Black Cali Common, eh? Massively audible release of carbonation when uncapped. Pours with mostly head (medium brown, large bubbles, huge in volume, creamy, medium lasting) over a near black to deep cola hued body. Some brownish red-highlight that make it seem pretty clear. Retention is pretty solid. Roasty, bready, malty and lightly leathery aromas. A touch smokey, earthy, spicy. Bacon, jerky. Medium apple like esters. Brown sugar. Flavors are dry, roasty, bready, medium crisp, estery, raw apple, low acetaldehyde, smokey, leather, medium roast, grainy, fruity. Resembles a black version of Shelenkra (sp?) ’s Helles, albeit with a few more yeast biproducts. Dry, lively, somewhat small bodied. A bit crisp. Pretty sessionable. Feels smaller than 5.5% with minimal heaviness. Pretty solid.

Draft. Dark mahogony beer with a dark cream head. Light roast and caramel aroma. Light roast and caramel flavor. Medium bodied. Caramel and light roast lingers with a light mineral note.

Pours black with a huge tan head that won’t go away and a treacle aroma. There is a smooth dark malt flavor with a very dry finish. Easy to drink.

Bomber from Hayduke. We had it together via facebook chat. This poured black and had a really big beige head. It bordered on being a gusher. But the foam was very light and drinking through it was not a problem. A roasted aroma. The flavor was also roasted notes with treacle. Some cooked brown sugar. A fizzy feel that eventually left my tongue numb. I needed a lighter beer tonight and this fit the bill nicely. It was flavorful and interesting.

22oz bottle, purchased at Bottle Barn. Pours a deep brown color; thin, fine-bubbled light-tan head. Restrained levels of roast and bitter chocolate in the aroma. Medium-light to medium bodied; a pretty robust lager that seems to be channeling Moonlight Death & Taxes, although it doesn’t have the same degree of malty richness as Brian’s beer; there might be a touch of green apple / acetaldehyde here, but it doesn’t really mess up anything, and gets included alongside a prominent mineral note; a tasty black lager showing a fair amount of chocolate, cocoa, and restrained roastiness; well-handed stuff. Medium-length finish, with a lasting mineral bitterness and roasted malt notes; cocoa; nicely dry.

This beer was a shared tasting with Strykzone on Facebook Chat This poured the appropriate black you would expect from a Schwarzbier and raised a big bubbled and robust head. The nose was roasted malts and some treacle. Medium in body it had the smooth clean lager mouth feel. The flavor was roasted malts and the treacle like the aroma. Right on the mark for this style beer and very easy drinking and enjoyable.

22oz bottle. Rating #8. Dark and dense, black with s nice creamy tan head. Nice aroma, light roast with a good amount of cocao. Dark roast with sweet chocolate flavors and a bitter coffee finish. (2374)

Sampled in a 22oz bottle from Whole Foods Potrero Hills in SF. Pours dark black. Aroma is sweet and taste is smooth with mild hopping and crisp malts. A good brew. Not too heavy but packed full of flavor.