DAB Dark Beer

Brewed by Dortmunder Actien Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Dunkel
Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bottle. Clear dark brown with an insubstantial white head. Nose: walnuts and raisons, both weak. Taste: slightly overdone wheat toast. Very thin body.

Very thin. Minor roasted aroma and flavor, with just a little smoke. Along the lines of Warsteiner dark.

weak to nonexistant aroma, body is dark brown with a thin white head. flavor is weak malts, with a little bit of sweetness. a very thin watery body. i expected more flavor and character from a dunkel.

The following was a rating for DAB Traditional:
This oddly obscure "An Ale" is a puzzlement. It comes across more like an American dark lager than anything else, brown with a roasty nose, lightly sweet malt tastes. Fairly light bodied with a mildly bitter finish, I’m not sure what I just drank.

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Earlier Rating: 3/28/2005 Total Score: 2.7
Looks real nice, but it’s a fairly watered down dunkel. The clear brown coloring promises some good, solid maltiness, but it’s very light on the nose. Likewise with the taste - a little caramel malt, a hint of smoke, a bit of a spritzy feel in the throat. Not bad, but not real good.

The above combo rating is a result of having DAB Traditional combined with this dunkel.

Smells great, looks great, but a bit watery. A nice, malty aroma, a bit sweet, the head dissipates quickly, a there’s a very dark beer. It’s very drinkable, very smooth, a touch of hops, and rather refreshingh. A bit watery though, which dissapoints in the end.

Deep amber/light brown, very clear, with a good head. Aroma is nice an malty with hints of hops. Flavor is malty yet slightly stale with smoe dull cardboard like taste. Somewhat crisp finish but still had a wierd aftertaste. Not that great but not as bad as I was expecting either.

2004 bottle from Julio’s. Pour is a drab black olive-grey meets dark chestnut brown, very clear and transparent with a poorly retained, fizzy beige head. Aroma and flavor smell like Earl Gray tea, which is fine with me, but it certainly dosent smell much like a dunkel. That’s the first thing that came to mind and it stuck. Dry, black tea leaves, light herbal notes, light nuttiness. Perhaps some light anise flavoring and a very very faint touch of sweet malt on the finish. Peppery carbonation, light body.

A medium sized active white head. Dark amber body. Aroma is caramel apples with some hints of cherries. The taste is light raosted caramel with some bread. A light body with the roasted flavors sticking around in the aftertaste. A nice beer overall.