Zlatý Bažant Tmavy 11.5 % (Golden Pheasant Dark)

Pours a dark brown with a beige head. Aroma of caramel, chocolate and some roasted malt. Flavour is sweet malt, licorice and plum. Medium bodied with a sweet finish.

Dark red color, little beige lasting head. Mild chocolate, sweet aroma. Flavor starts with medium chocolate, ends with dry and roasted, lasting aftertaste. Some roasted tones in aroma too. Thin to medium body. Sticky palate in aftertaste.

Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly deminishing head. Nice caramellic aroma and flavor. Average finish. Oily palate.

Bottle. Dark amber colour with a long lasting light brown head. Sweet roasted malty aroma. Sweet malty flavor with hints of chocolate and caramel. Dry bitter finish.

Dark reddish colour with small and quick dissappearing beige head. Aroma is sweet and malty with some plum and small hints of chocolate. Flavor starts sweet with some chocolate, finish is dry. Palate is thin.

Draft (in Bratislava). Smalls faintly of toasted malt. A little bitter from hops, but not much. It is rather sweet, almost syrupy. Nor my favourite Slovakian dark!

Very fine dunkel. Creamy, very dark head over almost pitch black body. Slight coffee flavour, maybe a bit too thin indeed but very refreshing and relaxing.

Bottle, at home. Dark brown with light brown head, quickly gone. Aroma of sweet and totsted malt. Flavor of sweet and toated malt, light bitterness of hops. Light to medium body, watery, soft carbonated.