Jever Dark

Brewed by Jever (Oetker Group)
Style: Schwarzbier
Jever, Germany

Draft. This was a schwarzbier? Wow I thought it was really a dunkel or a wierd doppelbock. Ehhh, have had better

Pours a dark, opaque reddish-brown with a thin off-white head. Aroma is not strong but it malty and a little spicy, with a hint of fruit, and definitely tempting. Rich flavor is mainly malty with a fruity undertone - mostly cherry - and a strong hoppy tone, a little bitter and a little sweet. Texture is fairly smooth and lively, leaving a bit of a tingle. Wunderbar!

Bottle shipped from the brewery. Small but sturdy light tan head atop a dark brown body. Aroma is nutty and chocolate with some roastiness. Flavor is really roasty with a nice burnt flavor. Pretty hoppy but possibly because it’s so fresh. Too sweet and not dry enough, especially as it warms.

Mahogany with a large beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and breadish notes. Flavour likewise with a somewhat hoppy finish.

Aroma/Malty-graint, Appearance Head/Initial-largel, Head/Color off-white, Body/Hue-clear, Initial Flavor-bitter light Finish Flavor-bitter light Palate/Body-light good beer

33cl bottle. Thanks to MissDolle. Pours dark brown with a off white head. Sugar, corn, hay, bread & caramel. Medium to thin palate. Straw/corn dominates. Quite weak!

<b>No 570</b>
<b>Rated: 16.09.2008</b>
<b>Bottle green, 330 ml</b>
<b>Appearance: </b>Pours dark amber to brown body colour, head is off - white, cappuccino like, there is gentle lacing, head is frothy and quite compact in texture but not big, initially at least medium but decreasing to small than lasting. Body is perfectly clear and saturation is quite good, carbonation is natural like and gentle. Body colour is very similar to a Brown Ale but maybe not such intensive.
<b>Aroma: </b>Creamy, cappuccino, gentle notes of toasty barley grains, all - malt aroma, dessert like, gentle notes of flowery hoppyness, no juicyness and red fruits like in German Dunkels, to summerize as you close your eyes and do not know the colour it has an aroma like a Jever Pilsener but with more flowery, not herbal oriented hoppyness.
<b>Flavour: </b>Quite high hoppyness resulting in a dry texture and moderate to high bitterness but not so bitter and dry as Jever Pilsener, hoppyness is more flowery oriented in aroma than in flavour but is still not as herbal as in Jever Pilsener, dessert beer, slightly sweet, gentle roasty grains makes it different from kind of more red - fruity Munich Malt Dunkel. Finish duration is moderate.
<b>Palate: </b>Body is light to medium, texture is practically dry, carbonation on palate is soft, finish feel is mineral, ashy, without any fruity accents, cardboard, dryness, bitterness, neutral nose, gentle alcoholic warmth.

............. nice dark beer brewed a few kilometers away ....... the beer is an extension o the normal, typical Jever, which is popular as a northern german classical beer and has a 10-15 year old never changed marketing campaign - the new holding now has changed ..... the dark is a light dark an it tasts like dark beers taste :-]