Eisenbahn Dunkel (Escura)

A beginner’s dunkel. Soft chocolate and coffee bean aromas and flavours. Quite light bodied and just a hint of astringency in the back palate. Drinks very easily and certainly not sweet of cloying.

Bottle purchased at D’s Six Pax. Pours brown black, thin off white head. Aroma is malt, roasted nuts, caramel, coconut. Flavor is Roasted, malty, caramel, toffee. Fairly sweet but not too much so. I’d say that this is a decent dunkel.

12 oz bottle

This was a find on my first stop to River Bend Wines near King’s Island. I figured that it could be interesting; if nothing else it is a new country to explore. Based on this I may try to find the Eisenbahn Lust. It wasn’t the best dunkel but coming from Brazil my expectations weren’t that high anyways.

Aroma / Appearance - The short lived head decorated a fluid dark brown liquid. Rye bread, chocolate and wheat composed a passable dunkel without being outstanding.

Flavor / Palate - The carbonated black raspberry taste was a bit underwhelming. Rye toast and malty fruits provide a little more depth before the flat soda finish. Overall it was decent and acceptable but nothing special.

brown body, nice nose, fruity chocolate. buiscuity chocolate cookie flavor. touch of vanilla. really surprisingly good. smooth cookie taste from start to finish. great cocoa flavor lingers. 3 7 8 4 16

12 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a dark brown color with a one and a half finger thick light tan head. Very light lacing. Aroma is roasted malt and dark esters. Flavor is roasted malt with hints of coffee and smoke. This beer is quite easy on the palate. An easy drinking medium body beer. Worth a try.

Pours dark reddish amber with off-white head. Aroma of dark chocolate & roasted malt. Flavor to match with a hint of caramel and smoke.

Batch Number 17; Sampled April 2008
As I pour this brew a nice aroma of caramelized malt, toasted grain and light chocolate wafts to my nose. The beer pours with an initially three finger thick, amber tinged, tan colored head in my 25cl tulip glass. The beer shows a dark, amber-brown color, but shows a brilliantly clear, cherry-red color when held up to the light. A deeper quaff of the aroma yields more, concentrated aromas as previously noted; light coffee aromatics, some light raisin notes and some berry aromatics are noticeable, though the roast character tends to dominate the nose if you spend more than a second smelling it.

Quite dry tasting up front, though a bit of caramelized malt sweetness creeps in towards the finish. Nice and roasted tasting, more leaning towards a nicely toasted malt character that burnt flavors. After my first sip a bit more of the malt sweetness becomes more noticeable, though not so much as to characterize this as a sweet beer. Quite light bodied, this beer is very quaffable though it does have a presence & heft in the middle. Light dusty cocoa flavors, some bitter dark grain notes as well as a light hop bitterness are found in the finish. This has a nice raisin-like maltiness to it at times, in fact a nice malt sweetness really does pick up here as the beer warms up (or perhaps it is my palate recovering from that overly sweet Pils I just had).

A tasty beer; I like how full flavored yet quaffable it is. It has more roast character than is typical of a Dunkel Lager, but I wouldn’t call it a Schwarzbier either; either way though it is tasty.

Purchased: <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp?PlaceID=698>Plaza Liquors, Tucson AZ

Dark reddish brown pour. A nice off white head with some good lacing. Dark chocolate and roasty notes. The flavor is more of the same. Some caramel/toffee flavor. Also some light smoke notes. Very clean and crisp on the palate. A pretty decent dunkel.