Einbecker Dunkel

Brewed by Einbecker Brauhaus
Style: Dunkel
Einbeck, Niedersachsen, Germany

Red-orange-brown beer. Not much head. Herbal aroma with notes of hay, malt, licorice and chocolate. A bit roasted. Roasted flavorwith notes of malt, coffee, smoke, rubber and fruits. Sweetish.

Ruby-maroon-brown, fine-bubbled off white diminishing head. Nose dark choclate, caramel, raisin-dates?, toffee. Sweetish smooth all the way through. Chocolate, roast-toast, dryish herbal finish. Dee says the finish tastes like the bitter herb stuff they use to get kids to stop sucking their thumbs...not that she sucked her thumb or anything....

Draught, at Rover. Brown with large head. Light taste of malt and hops. Sweet and bitter finish, average duration. Watery and soft.

It poured a coca-cola dark brown, but without the carbonation. Not too full on the mouthfeel. A little tangy. Ok, but not good. Unremarkable.

It says "schwarzbier" on the green bottle, but it’s definitely a dunkel inside. It pours dark, but brown, not black. Small white head. It’s got a sweet, sweet roasted malt aroma with some nuttiness. Same with the watery taste. Clean finish. Pretty uninteresting.

Bottled. Dark red/brown colour. Almost no head and no lace at all. Nutty, roastmalty aroma with a hint of liquorice and coffee. Flat, roastmalty taste ending in a nut-bitter finish. Lightbodied and slightly bland. Not enough carbonation, too, therefore underscoring the watery and lightbodied palate-impressions.

Pours dark brown with no head. Aroma is roasted nuts with aslight skunk to it. Had no flavor at all, reminds me of diet pop. I don’t know what the purists say a dunkel is but I can’t understand this being called one.

Bottle: Aroma is kind of a nutty, caramel, and sourn combination. Pours a dark brown with a little red to it if held to the light. Small white head with little retention. Strong roasty nutty taste with light caramel. Roastiness increases in the finish with some light bitterness. Leaves a light caramel aftertaste.