Dale Bros. California Black Beer

Brewed by Dale Bros. Brewery
Style: American Dark Lager
Upland, California USA

Enjoyed this on tap at Papago’s in Scottsdale, and ended up taking home a bomber from their fridge. Elegant pour with a faint taste of hazlenut and banana. Not an ambitious dark lager, but thuroughly enjoyable and something I’d be happy to have waiting for me on tap.

7 day old bottle... clear medium dark woody brown cola color and a little tan head. grainy, house yeasty aroma with notes of chocolate, metal, wood, fruit/banana? and coffee. flavor is similar... quite bland mix of nuttiness, coffee, chocolate malt and light spiciness on the finish. light to medium body with a soft texture and prickly carbonation. it’s not great but i could easily drink a bunch of this. 6/3/6/3/13/3.1

been drinking a lot of this lately as it is so well priced and suited for the heat... when consumed from the bottle the flavors are enhanced. nut, chocolate and coffee really stand out in almost porter quantities. clean finish keeps me coming back...

Bottle 65 cl. Clear orangey brown with an off-white head. Roasted malt in the nose. Medium body, roasted malt and a little licorice. Subdued bitterness. 210809

Bottle from Saarlander: Pours a clear copper color with a light tan head. Aroma, caramel malts, some roasted notes, a bit nutty. Flavor, doughy, caramel, nutty. A dry roasty finish, some fruits were in there as well. Not bad.

A ruby colored pour to this one, abit of a confusing flavor to this one for me, its hopped well enough, Malt is fine too, but there’s abit of a spice flavor to it on the aftertaste, don’t know what it is, but not a bad brew at all, abit watery on the finish, but good, different flavor. Decent brew.

Pour was dark black, schwarzbier-looking, decent choco-colored head too. The aroma was chocolatey munich malts, dry grains. The flavor followed the aroma, sweet thick malt chocolate with some cocoa elements, biscuits, faint roast, finishing with some floral hops (odd?) too. The dryness of the finish I like in my dunkels or schwarz (this seemed to be more of the latter), was overwhelmed by the malty thickness, over-sweetness. Mouthfeel was a bit thick to finish clean with a lager-like element. A decent brew, though.

Bomber courtesy of hellbilly. Multibple aromas of coco, coffee and some wheat. Black body held to light red body with good beige head. Sweet cola soda carbinated flavor with a mix of roast and dry coffee blended in. Sweetness lingers on the palate along with some dryness. Decent beer alot going on in this one.

Bottle, 22oz, thx to Papsoe. It’s a clear, copper-colored beer, quite flat and headless. Caramel, some bread and fruityness in the aroma. The flavor is much the same, with caramel dominating, and bready malts and fruity hops playing second violin. Full-bodied with surprisingly good carbonation in the mouth. Some bitterness in the finish, but mostly fruits and caramell. What is there to say? Not much wrong with it, it’s just not very interesting. 090821