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Berghoff Genuine Dark Beer

Berghoff Genuine Dark Beer

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31
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A Vienna brewed by
Minhas Craft Brewery

Monroe, Wisconsin USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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1752.84/5.02.84/5.05.4%60.2Lager glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
This deep mahogany Euro-style lager has a nice balance of malts and hops, which lend to the full-flavored body and mild aroma. It has a pleasantly malt-fruity palate, with touches of chocolate, and some hoppy bitterness coming through at the end. The dark beer was rated as "One of the Top 100 Beers in the World" by Wine Enthusiast magazine, won the Silver Medal in the 1993 Great American Beer Festival and the Silver Medal in the 2002 World Beer Championships.

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 naivepegasus (151), USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/101/513/20

Jun 16, 2008  
Pours a dark ruby brown with a finger of rapidly dissipating off-white head. Odor of sweet malt. Very watery mouthfeel that goes into a bit of a caramel taste with a slightly bitter aftertaste. A somewhat underwhelming beer, but a passable session beer.

 jbuzz (566), South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/59/20
Dec 1, 2008  
All Berghoff brews seem to have the same base flavoer. This one is no different only slitly dark.


 popephred (141), Plainfield, Illinois, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/102/59/20
Nov 26, 2008  
Found in the bargain bin at Dominick’s, for $1.98 a six-pack. Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Pour produced a dark caramel colored body topped by a small, quickly diminishing head of off-white foam. Weak malt aroma, not offensive, not much of anything. Sharp effervescence, with a sweet flavor that diminishes quickly, leaving a slight bittersweet aftertaste. The palate is on the sweet side, favoring the malts, though I couldn’t pick up much else due to the carbonation. I think that this isn’t too bad, and was worth the bargain bin price, though it certainly doesn’t rank highly in my book...


 BeerBunker (178), Burbank, Illinois, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Oct 19, 2008  
$5 for a twelve pack...Can’t beat that. Pours a dark amber color with a white head. Aroma is of earthy malts, cola, and faint hops. Taste made me cringe, and not in a good way. Tasted of toasty malts, grass, and hops.


 kassner (217), Wexford, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/511/20
Oct 18, 2008  
on tap at Ohara Airport. Not much different from Amber Ale. A little more earthy and certainly darker but similar.


 HonkeyBra (517), Lemont, Illinois, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/58/20
Sep 26, 2008  
This is pretty terrible. Murkey dark color, barely any aroma. Slightly toasted taste, though not much there. Yeah, it’s better than most macros, so?



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