Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkel
Aying, Germany

Pours a brown/red with fizzy off-white head. Aroma of sweet nutty malt. Nutty flavors of roasted malt and a little bit of fruit and coffee. Thin, fairly sweet and easy to drink.

had during the octoberfest tour at old chicago. sweet but thin, malt with some dryness. worth a try but won’t blow you away.

Pours a light mahogany into a shaker. Fluffy micro head with excellent retention leaves sheets as it slightly recedes. Fresh malt aromas. Flat and watery with sweet dried fruits and with a coffee and fig finish.

Pours a clear medium brown color with a thick and lasting head that leaves a great web of lacing all the way to the end. Aroma promises that this will be a Malt Bomb© Magjayran (that’s right, it’s my term). Hints of apple juice and caramel in the nose. Flavor has a bit toffee and a bit fruit and very sweet from start to finish. Problem is, it seems a little watered down.

darker amber with ruby highlights. Aroma is a small amount of chocolate, sweet malts, specifically caramel and toffee, vanilla undertones. The taste is sweet and roasty caramel malts, light chocolate also, with a slightly watery palate, smooth finish.

Bottle, purchased in Grand Island, Nebraska of all places. Poured dark red brown with a big foamy head and good lacing. Really strong nose of burnt malts, along with some fruits, nuts, and chocolate. Very smooth palate. For something so rich looking and smelling, it was actually a tiny bit dry, which added to its charm. Good to the last drop.

Bottled. Red/brown in colour. Foamy beige head. lacings. It has a lightly malty aroma. The flavour is surprisingly watery with hints of burnt malt. It has a malty, dry and sweet aftertaste.

500mL, no date. Pours a clear reddish brown with a moderate, beige head. The first aroma I picked up on was dry dog food. Not necessarily bad, it just was. Also aromas of nutss and toasty malts, light maple syrup and a little raisins. Taste is a little stronger in the dark fruit/raisin category, a small amount of bitterness noted, though it seems more from the malts rather than the hops. I can pick up on coffee if I try really hard, though I can’t tell if it’s because I have a decent palate or because in the description they throw that word in--kinda placeboish. I’m also picking up on a slight smokey flavor. At least I don’t taste dog food. Lighter bodied, moderate carbonation, light roasty lightly bitter finish. I think I’ve had only one dunkel, which was Warsteiner. This is much better. Very nice beer.