Capital Munich Dark

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

(bottle) medium brown. Sweetish malt aroma. Sweet malt/roast grain flavor. Nice dunkel.

Dark mahogany, very filtered tan head fades to film, ring of bubbles. Very bready aroma, some caramel and bitter chocolate. Flavor is all sweet caramel malt up front, with a certain burnt/roasted grain character to it, but in a good way. Very easy drink, finishes with just enough aftertaste to leave you begging for more. Not my favorite style, but very well done. Pleasantly surprised.

Clear reddish-brown pour with a thin layer of well-retained off-white head. Subtle, yet constant carbonation bubbles rising througout the drink. Very fine aroma of roasted chocolate malt, bread, and caramel. Flavor was of nicely roasted malts (chocolate and caramel... with a lesser coffee presence), light alcohol, and some floral hops. Very smooth across the palate (no chalkiness or other hang-ups often found in darks).. and exceptionally easy-drinking. This would make a great session brew.

Pours to a huge frothy rocky off-white head. The body is a dark brown with red hilights. The aroma is alcoholic roasted sweet malts. Bread dough. The flavor is toffee, bread, and tea. Unfortunately, it’s a little weak. I get a light dry chalkyness too. Strange. Overall, a decent beer but comes off a little weak in the flavor dept.

Deep reddish mahogany, off-white head. Nose very malty, sweet caramel, bit of roast, some breadiness. Great maltiness in flavor, sweet caramel at first, finishes with a long pull of toffee. Loads of brown sugar as well, really nice. Some more bread and a bit of dark fruit, like a liquid muffin of dunkely joy. Creamy, rich, phenomenal palate. Capital, I like you.

Bottle. Deep Ruby color, somewhat hazy. Flavors of slightly sweet coffee and roasted malts. Smooth on the palate with a lively carbonated mouthfeel. Comes across well put together and there is nothing bad that stands out. This is a good dunkel.

What a lovely, lovely pour. Dark caramel with a smallish light tan head that collapses down into a dense ring that sheets the glass with finely structured lace. The aroma is also lovely, it just screams munich, sweet and earthy dopplebock-esque caramel notes. Flavor-wise things hold together quite well, loads of caramel throughout. Unbaked whole-wheat dough, toffee, syrup, and some earthiness that grounds the whole cavalcade. The palate is outstanding. It is full soft and not at all syrupy. Not at all highly carbonated or prickly. Bitterness and acifity are almost non-existent. Wow a fantastic brew and one of the best that I have tried from Capital, which is high praise as their other beers are quite good. Now Playing: Pelican - Australiasia.

2004 or 2005 bottle big thanks to Robertsreality, this was awesome! Light caramel/muted-nut-brown with some light oak tones on the edges. Light beige/dark-eggshell head recedes fairly rapidly to ring. Only lightly filtered. Rich 2-row and munich malt aroma is immediately perceived. Dark, rich, soily black earth, with some light vinous notes. Flavor has a fantastic amount of malt. Caramel, brown bread dough. Rich dark sugar and caramelized honey. Rich English toffee. But through all of the richness, it is horribly drinkable! Lightly yeasty, dry earthy notes on end. Low hops bitterness and flavor. Natural mouthfeel with low carbonation, very aerated texture. I could definitely stand to drink this as my session beer day in and day out. Bits of berry skins linger with some leafy, foresty hops flavor.