Okocim Palone

Carlsberg Polska
Formerly brewed at Okocim (Carlsberg Polska)
Style: Dunkel
Warszawa, Poland

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

This bottled brew from Indianapolis, IN poured a medium sized head of finely sized tan colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a strongly carbonated transparent dark brown colored body and a good lacing. The aroma was soft with mild brown malt notes. The mouth feel was tingly and crisp from start to finish. The flavor contained notes of mild smoke malt dark malt and mellow hops with a slight diacetyl finish.

This pours a nice clear brown with a small soft tan head. There is a great caramel malt aroma. It has a nice sweet subtle nuttiness in the flavor, possibly with a little vanilla. The mouthfeel is about what you’d expect from a dunkel. It finishes very nicely and leaves a little sweetness on your palate. Overall it’s an enjoyable easy-drinking beer.

Brown with quickly diminishing tan head. Aroma is very vegetal, like green beans or pees. There’s some light sweet malt in there too. Taste is of green peas, wtf? Also some caramel, toffee and of course more vegetal qualities to round things out. There’s some light hop character to it, but for the most part this brew is a bit strange and I’m not likely to go back to it anytime soon.

500ml Bottle. Nice, almost sweet roasted malt body. Smooth. Little hop character. Definantly a little different.

So its darkish right, it’s ruby, thin and it’s got light brown top. This is very much unlike a carrot, which is orange with a green top and comes in various diameters. Another very un-carrot like property is its taste. With the carrot you get a distinctly carroty flavour with maybe a hint of mud, however this beverage offers a malty, coffee and slightly burnt, caramel sweetness. There’s a particular bitterness left over with this which I did not find with carrot - even the soft old ones. Overall this was an enjoyable beer that could have delivered a bit more, although it got better the more that was drunk. Either that or I need to stop eating carrots whilst I rate beers.

In the 0.5L bottle from Beertopia. Pours black with a creamy beige head. Mild chicory aroma. Really nice thickness to this. I’m surprised at the quality for such a cheap beer ($2.99). Licorice and roastedness to the finish. This seems more porter-like and less dunkel. Nice lacing left over. I’d reccomend this beer at the price.

Not so great - tastes of alcohol, and it’s only 5.5% abv. WTF? A weird flavor, for sure. Pretty sweet. Keep in mind I LOVE dunkels, but I don’t love this brew.

Pour is dark brown with some ruby highlights and a thinnish off white head...smell is sweet with some figs and plums along with some sour currant like notes....most interesting nose...taste is lightly sweet with some faint smoky flavors...lots of earth fruits and a subtle ry bread type bitterness...