Schell Dark

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Dunkel
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Bottle. Dirtwater brown pour with minimal head. Aroma and taste of caramel, and sweet malts. Okay.

Nothing special here, but again easy to drink. Roasted malts. Clean-watery taste with light carbonation.

Bottle. Pour is brown with copper hue and creamy head that dissipates to a ring on top. Aroma has bread and some sweet malt notes. Taste is mild and bitter bread. Palate is thin like water with a chaulky feel. I enjoy this one by schell.

Another good effort from August Schell Brewing Company. Has a really nice color to it, reds, oranges, yellows, and browns in swirling layers. I am quickly becoming a fan. I have three more to sample yet.

12 oz bottle from Hy-Vee - I have a hard time rating this one so low because it isn’t really unpleasant to drink. It just isn’t all that great. I would drink another, though. Thin texture. Old bar aroma. Nice head on chocolate colored body.

There is something I find really off-putting about beer i clear glass bottles - why Schell decided to put this in clear glass is strange, considering all the other beers I have had from them were in brown glass - what the hell!? - anyway - like a lot of the other lagers I have had from this brewery, this one is fairly underrated, though not as much so as the others - dark brown pour with a moderate, fizzy lace - fairly smooth - starts out medium dry, with some notes of cocoa and roasted nuts - sweetness develops through the middle, and becomes moderate by the finish, as some almost bock-like notes of raisin and caramel develop - a touch of hop bitterness arrives at the tail end to temper the sweetness a bit - the one flaw I find is that the corn used becomes fairly noticeable by the end - why even use it? - other than that, this is a fairly clean and balanced dark lager.that might benefit from some recipe tweaking.

Let us humbly endeavour to learn: THIS IS NOT BLATZ!!! Do you get it????? You want premium? Go with Blatz! You want spohistication: GO WITH BLATZ! You want high quality taste: GO WITH BLATZ! You want bimbos swarming all over your "member"? GO WITH BLATZ! You want vomit sliding down your chin? Go with Schell Dark! You want people avoiding you like you have a case of herpes? Go with Schell Dark! Why ask why? Drink Blatz dry! That is all.

Copper brown pour with a razor-thin white head. Aroma of some malts and roasted nuts. The flavor is a very light roasted malt with a hint of nuts. The lightness isn’t a bad thing here, it adds to the refreshing body. A good summer session beer.