Perhon Töölön Tumma

Brewed by Perhon Panimo
Style: Schwarzbier
Helsinki, Finland

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Draught@SOPP2010. Deep brown color, off-white head. Sweet roasted aroma. Dark malty flavor with a hint of juniper and chocolate. Medium-light body, light carbonation. It’s not a disaster, but better dark beers are easy to come by.

(Draught at SOPP’10) Poure deep dark brown and cloudy. Head was medium sized and white. Aroma contained malts and berries. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were roastedness, sourness, berries and bitterness. Aftertaste was sour.

Keg (SOPP2010, Helsinki)
5 Chocolatey aroma - promises good things. But then there’s some DMS that spoils it.
4 Very dark brown, small off-white head.
3 Yikes. Sour yikes nad cocao. Cocao was nce, but they borked it. 2 Unexceptional palate, apart from the sourness 6 Not as the brewer intended, should rerate.

Draught@ SOPP2010. Poured almost black color with a beige head. Aroma mostly caramel malt. Flavor is artifical like, roasted malt. Very watery.

Draught. Black opaque colour, big brown creamy/bubbly head. Malty smooth nose with weak bananaish hints. Hoppy flavour with some fruity hints, a bit sweetishbitter finish.

(Draught) Very dark brown color with a small, tight and beige head. Earthy, somewhat roasty and smoky coffee aroma with licorice hints. Roasted-malty, almost burned flavor with hints of licorice. Medium-bodied, slightly watery palate with low carbonation. A quite nicely roasty, easily drinkable dunkel.

Draught
Dark muddy brown, small tanned head, opaque color. Vegetables, leafs in the yeasty aroma ("old socks" I said first). Slightly roasted and chocolaty flavor. Dry, woody, certainly unfiltered. Easy to drink black lager.