Einbecker Dunkel

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

Bottle. Two finger beige thick and light creamy head that mostly lasted. Fair display of lacework. Sparkling body with a light mahogany like color. Aroma of lovely toasted bread, strong underlying caramel feel. Nice cookie like and nutty notes as well. Over the palate some roasted malty bitterness comes to live. Medium bodied with a hint of dry texture and a soft carbonation. Balanced bitter malty roasted flavor with good counter sweet bread like sweetness. Toasted malty lingering finish. Quit nice I thought!

33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a deep amber hue, clear, and a huge light brown head. Sweet almost honey like aroma with an underlying grainy note. Slight roasted malt flavour a bit like dark bread is the first flavour, followed by a short bit of sweetness before a slight citric and then bitter flavour kicks in. The bread flavour is persistent throughout with a slight mouldy touch. Decent but somewhat too simple.

Pours a clear but dark ruby with no head. Nose is very slightly smoked it seems. Very minute malt character there too. Overall it seems to be very subdued on the nose. Flavor is a bit meaty with a slight woody, inky edge to it. Feel has a nice bubble to it, though I feel like there is a thick ink character in this one that stays on my tongue. Feels kind of odd. Drinkability is good. It is a smooth brew, with some unusual characteristics from the style. But overall it is no homerun.

From a 11.2 ounce bottle that says scwharzbier. Clear, brown liquid with off-white head. Aroma is malty, but not that strong. Body is on the thin side with lots of small bubbles. The taste is malty, with not many chocolate or coffee notes. Pretty dry, not much hoppiness. Decent lager.

Date: 05/04/2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Norm’s, DC

dark brown, whispy head, light sweet malt aroma, malty flavor, touch of bitterness, just a hint of roasted malt, mostly boreing

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.4/5.0
Score: 4
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Bottle from Frugal McDugal in Nashville, TN. Pours brown with a huge soapy beige head. Aroma of dark bread, caramel, sugary dark fruits, and wet grains. Medium light bodied with a slight thin texture. With the lack of malt backbone and light hopping rate, what is left is bready and nutty malts, with some subtle tea like bitterness. Finishes clean but watery, with some macro european lager characteristics. Not a dunkel, this is a schwarzbier, and a rather ordinary one.

On tap at Tjeldsundfergen, Oslo. Dark reddish brown with a creamy tan head. Malty caramel aroma. Good malty flavours, grassy bitterness. Nuttiness. OK enough.

Einbecker "Schwarzbier" is a ruby brown lager with a sandy slight head. The aroma is grainy-- roasted barly. It’s fresh and faint. It’s thin in the mouth. The flavor is of deep malt. It’s lightly bitter and a little funky. My drinking party and I all agreed that this was a Dunkel, not a Schwarzbier. Why did they call this a Schwarzbier?