Erdinger Weissbier Dunkel

Brewed by Erdinger Weissbräu
Style: Dunkelweizen
Erding, Germany

From a 1 pt. 9 fl. oz. bottle no. 03-2009 LO41103. Very dark brown almost black pour with a substantial amount of creamy, beige head that leaves decent lacing. Aroma of light spices, malts and wheat. Solid mouth feel. Sweet taste of light chocolate. Smooth all around. Something I really enjoyed.

This was much tastier to me then the plain ole Erdinger Weissbier. It had a much fuller body and I really enjoyed the caramel/malty taste.

No 233
Rated: 17.10.2007
Bottle brown, 500 ml, 12.9 P
Appearance: Body is hazy or even murky, cloudy, dark brown to hazy black, head is frothy, off- white, regular in structure, gives some fair lacing, body is medium, carbonation is mild and gentle though is not clearly seen, because of cloudiness, very dark as for wheat beer.
Aroma: A bit accidic, rather no wheat what is surprising, it is more caramelic in aroma than wheaty, a kind of burned sugar, carbonation is felt, rather no hops, yeast and no malts, some kind of sweetness, a hint of cherry, milky, creamy.
Flavour: In flavour is sweet, more like dunkel than hefeweizen beer, caramel, a bit accidic, carbonation, a hint of wheat though weak, rather mellow, a hint of milk, chockolate, cacao, but not much sweetness, a bit grainy, finish feel is average, cherry.
Palate: Finish flavour is light sweet, dry, carbonation is soft on palate, body is medium, texture is wattery, finish feel is light alcoholic.Generally good beer, but not as weizen (wheat) beer but like dunkel with addition of wheaty blend. Much better than Erdinger Hefe Weissbier.

i50cl bottle from Sainsburys./i Cloudy chocolate brown with a thick tan head fruity roasted malt aroma similar flavour dry finish with a touch of banana. Not a familiar style to me, OK - but not something I’d go hunting for.

On tap at Cardinal, Stavanger - shared with Roger. Hazy brown color, nice off-white head. Aroma is roasted malt. Flavor is roasted caramel malt, yeast, fruit.

when I saw that the average note of this particular dunkel weisse is above 3 I became very concerned, sour and dissapointed about your tastes my fellow ratebeerians, however there is no judgement on the preferences, ........so....in the terms of type and general ideas this beer is absolutely a failure, failure to be dunkel, failure to be weisse, no yeast, no wheat, some strange not particular "dark"’ notes, no distinctive taste, like sweet-ish and caramel-ish water semi-carbonated

Color is a pleasant cola brown, but nose is thin, almost non-existent. Flavor profile is not very complex--mostly toasted malt and some coffee. Finishes very rapidly, and is highly carbonated for a dark beer. I was disappointed.

The beer pours a dark almost black color with a nice head that pours thick but thins quickly. It has almost no nose at all. The flavors are light and watery but you can get some notes of roasted nuts and caramel mix with malts and wheat. The finish is short lived. The beer is drinkable but not crave-able.