Atwater Dunkel

Brewed by Atwater Block Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Detroit, Michigan USA

Bottle at acertain’s place.

Pours a light golden brown, plenty of head with a slight sour-grass aroma that leaves one a little buit unprepared for the caramel, slightly acidic flavor. Still, it’s enjoyable enough.

12oz - Aroma is earthy, sweet, dark roasty malts and chewy carmel. Pours dark brown with a huge head and good lacing. Flavor matches aroma and is sweet and syrupy. Palate is sticky. Interesting and tasty.

An interesting beer, though not a Dunkel as so named. Heady as hell when poured, tan colored with a dark brown body. Aroma is slightly sour and fruity. Taste is of sour apple initially blending to a malty backbone, very little in the way of hops.

Clear dark brown body with a medium creamy light brown head. Sweet roasted malt aroma. Very sweet fruity flavor, some light roasted malt.

Draft sample at MBGF. Dark brown color with large off-white fizzy head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate roasted malt aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium sweet roasted flavor with a medium sweet short finish.

Very malty aroma and a dark brown with a large head. Very inviting. Worst part about this beer is that the after taste is shallow and disapates quickly. Nothing sticks out as amazing on this beer, but the nice malt flavor/aroma is definitely a plus, and the hopping is perfect for someone not looking for a hop bomb.

From a bottle, at The Lodge in Keego, MI. A pretty beer, dark but still transparent with a nice tan head. Aroma was of malti-goodness with some roastyness and toastyness...and then fireworks. This style often goes there for me, smelling like fireworks or burning leaves, niether of which appeal to me. The flavour was the same, a balance of things I really like, and things I really don’t, with the great roastyness, but clean and crisp unlike porters and stouts, but then there’s the fireworks smell, and a touch of sourness fighting against the pleasant sweetness. A little hop in the finish comes out. Lots of potential if the smokiness is better applies, or maybe I’m just not cut out for Dunkels...

April 27th 2007 Re-Rate:

Aroma of brown sugar, grassy hops and sickly sweet malts. The body is an maber hued brown and holds a bubbly diminishing tan head. Mostly malty, light toasted grains, some very subtle fruity notes. Very low bitterness. Drinkable, but fairly uninteresting. <P> Original Rating 3.2: <P> Courtesy of DocLock <P> Aroma was overtly sour, but also held a good whiff of brown sugary malt aromas. Body is a dark red-tinted brown and it holds a slowly diminishing two finger thick tan head. Fore is sweet, somewhat nutty and brown ale like, with rich malts that touch briefly on chocolate and caramel. Some mild dark fruits and raisin notes also show up briefly. There is a continuing tartness that echoes the sour aroma and seems off here, but it still has some positive qualities and tastes decent enough.