Leinenkugels Creamy Dark

Brewed by Leinenkugel Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: American Dark Lager
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

Pours cola brown with mahogany highlights and a creamy, frothy, beige head that laces nicely. The aroma is of dark roasted malt and a weak blend of coffee and tea. Light-bodied and thin with lightly creamy carbonation and a tight, dry finish. An interesting brew that possesses porter flavors with a lager mouthfeel: roasted malt, iced tea and coffee round out the flavor profile. This is on of Leinie’s better offerings. It’s light and drinkable with many of the more robust flavors you’d expect from a porter. I like this one.

Bottle. Nice dark brown with hints of red. Thick off-white head. Very sweet caramel / crystal malt aroma. Body is a bit thin, but taste is sharp. Lingering chocolate finish.

Name: Creamy Dark
Date: 04/21/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, 50 More Beers on the Wall

clear dark brown, scant white head, lightly sweet dark caramel malt aroma, rich malt flavor, touch of a smoky earthy quality, light bitter finish
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Date: 06/25/2007
Mode: draft
Words: Milwaukee Airport

fine beige head, lots of spidery lace, picking up some good chocolate in the rich malt flavor, a touch of sweetness from a dark caramel character, good balance from the earthy bitterness

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Bottle. Dark, with a thick tan head. Rich, deep malt aroma, with just a hint of malt. Sweet and light, with a hearty roasted malt flavor. Bigger flavor than the body would indicate.

This is one nasty beer. Tasted like burnt rubber mixed with a hint of burnt twigs and rotting corpse.

I bought a sampler case because a friend from the mid west recommended Lienies Red Lager, but I discovered this one quit by surprise. And What a surprise, This is a top 10 beer on my list. Wonderful nose on this one, very complex for a local brewery. This isn’t a Microbrew but t does hold its own very well in that arena. Very Dark pour, nice head, whish it were a bit thicker and longer lasting, but it does lace well on the glass (pilsner). Definately taste the Munich malts in this one and perhaps some chocolate, You can’t miss the Mt Hood hops, which is an American Classic hopin my book. But there are at least 2 other hops in the mix, and they blend very well, which makes it hard to tell what they are, maybe cascade???? Give this one a try. I special ordered a whole case after draining all the creamy darks from that sampler in a weekend.

Pours almost black with nice frothy head. Aroma was nice and roasty with some maltiness. Taste is roasted and coffee with some malt. Not bad.

To start off with, this is a very tasty beer. It has a good aroma and a very dark color and a slightly darker than average head. It is an overall great beer.