 Sigmund (2294), Hafrsfjord, Norway
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 3/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Oct 21, 2009
330 ml clear bottle, brought home from Turkey by my wife. ABV is 6.1%. Dark reddish brown colour, big greyish beige head. Smells "thin" and metallic, also notes of cooked vegetables and wet cardboard. The flavour is first tolerably malty with notes of brown bread and some caramel, without being very sweet. Some fruity acidity in the middle. Dull finish, minimal hops. Clearly drinkable, but boring. Don’t expect to find anything much better than this in Turkey, though.
Toxygen (238), Sanford, Florida, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 2/5 | 13/20 |
Dec 17, 2009 (clr-btl with EFES bk-neck-lbl)
lct-br, thin-long-cm-head, med-body, med-high-co2.
aroma: ^unigue(@ 500 ratings) ^malted-milk-ball(DME).
taste:
T1 sweet-malt(DME) co2.
T2 roasty-malt sweet-DME-malt § minerality §hop-bitterness.
T3 §hop-bitterness §chr-astringency.
deffinitely interesting and would be great with the right food(maybe a middle-eastern dish with lamb and nutty sauce and §charred nan)
Travlr (769), Washington, Washington DC, USA
| 2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 3/10 | 3/5 | 6/20 |
Nov 22, 2009 Appearance was dark maroon in color, very little head, not much lacing.
Smell was of simple sugars and caramel.
Taste was on the sweet side, not very complex, not well balanced. Little finish.
Body was a bit lacking for a dark beer. Not a good effort, just a sweet and syrupy beverage that misses the mark.
KyotoLefty (1459), Kyoto, Japan
| 2.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 8/20 |
Nov 21, 2009 I was happy indeed to find a nationally-available dark beer, but it doesn’t quite live up to the standard set by the Pils. On the sweet side, but you sense you are tasting all kinds of added sugars rather than malts. The roasted taste is also lacking, as are the hops. Drinkable, and not an altogether bad dark beer for a country without a beer tradition, but not all that good.
DJMonarch (6878), Northwich, Cheshire, England
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Oct 28, 2009 330ml Bottle in Kadikoy 31/01/2009
Malt aroma. Some carbonation. Dark coloured and smooth on the palate with a little dryness in a crisp caramel malt finish.
bitbucket (2035), Kirkland, Washington, USA
| 1.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 3/10 | 4/5 | 3/10 | 2/5 | 5/20 |
Oct 26, 2009 Tallboy. Basically, if you take Efes Pilsen, and some caramel color and taste, bump up the ABV with some sugar and go with the cattier version of your standard Efes hops, you’ve got Efes Dark.
estpiwo (493), Estonia
| 2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 2/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Oct 17, 2009 Canned. Dark red-brown color. Malty aroma. Common dark beer, nothing interesting.
mcberko (161), British Columbia, Canada
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Oct 14, 2009 Sampled at the 2009 Canada’s Cup of Beer at UBC. Pours a dark amber. Much better than the regular Efes Pilsner, but nothing too impressive.
|
Statistics
Find This Beer (Want/Have)