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Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel 3.6 611

Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel

Percentile
92
overall
Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkel

Aying, Germany

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6113.61/5.03.6/5.05%99.8Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein
Commercial Description:
Dark chocolate in color, you can see a wonderful reflection if you hold it up to the light. It is round and soft with the warm, sweet aroma of freshly roasted malted barley. A satisfying, malty taste, with coffee-ish tones and a hint of plummy fruitiness in the finish. Complex and beautifully balanced.
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 dwyerpg (2553), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 8, 2005  
See-through brown. Like the Ur-weisse, it has both light and heavy moments. A redrinkable beer for sure, reminds me of Michelob amber bock but better.


 kramer (2530), Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Mar 20, 2007  
500 ml bottle, via Saarlander. Pours a clear dark amber colored body under a generous two finger foamy beige head that left lots of heavy lacing. Aroma is very clean. Nutty malt with a slight grainy character. Notes of tobacco, coffee, and oily leather. Nose is slightly grainy toasted malt up front fading to a sweet malty finish with notes of leather, smoke, and toffee. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate fizzy carbonation. Finishes a little sticky with some risidual sugars. This was a really good Dunkel. Full of flavor and never thin or watery. Top rate stuff!


 GregClow (2516), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
May 22, 2003  
Dark copper colour with a moderate off-white head that quickly recedes but leaves some nice lace behind. Sweet aroma of caramel and roasted malt. Very nice body - full and slightly creamy, but still crisp. Sweet flavour of malt and rummed raisins with a bit of smokiness, and a dry & slightly bitter finish.


 jgb9348 (2515), Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/517/20
Jan 10, 2003  
Dark brown, smell of fresh grapes. Acidic taste, but great flavour. Great all-around beer!


 kmweaver (2501), Sebastopol, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 4, 2007  
500mL bottle. Pours a clear, cherry cola color; off-white head with decent lacing. Plenty of dried cherries and fresh malts in the aroma; syrupy and dense. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: dense dried fruits, caramel, and nougat; intense chewy maltiness that manages to (somehow) seem balanced and drinkable without any prominent show of bitterness; really tasty. Lengthy, chocolate and toasted malt finish, with the slightest show of citrus bitterness.


 OhioDad (2491), Hilliard, Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 15, 2006  
Bottle pours brownish and slightly cloudy with a foamy offwhite head that stays well and laces some. Aromas of nuts, caramel and light chocolate. Flavor is quite malty, caramel, chocolate, and nuts with a touch of coffee as well. Smooth easy drinking with a soft mouthfeel and a lingering malty finish.


 Volgon (2490), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/517/20
Dec 8, 2001  
Powerful malty chocolate taste. Too bad they don’t know how to hop beer.


 FlacoAlto (2482), Tucson, Arizona, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 13, 2003  
This beer was served in a short squat stoneware mug, so I never got a chance to evaluate the color. It had a light tan head, with an aroma of malt along with a hint of alcohol. The taste was a bit dry, and because it started out cold was not as malty as I would have liked. The dunkel as it warmed up began to release a malty sweetness to my flavor receptacles. At first when cold the predominant taste was in the finish, it was one of bitterness from the hops. When warmed the maltiness balance out and in fact dominated the previous bitter hoppiness. I detected a hint of raisin, some caramelized breadiness. Quite clean as a lager should be, no fruitiness. The malt flavor was not sweet more of a cracker/ breadiness to it.



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