Oak Pond Laughing Loon Lager

Brewed by Oak Pond Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Skowhegan, Maine USA

This rarity is worth the effort. It pours very dark leaving a nice tan head. The aroma is of roasted and chocolate malts. The flavor matches but with depth added by some lighter toasted notes and a slgihtly floral hop bitterness. It is fizzy, but it has a smooth mouthfeel and leaves you refreshed.

My Bottom Line:
Bready base malts and strawberry esters nudge a diacetyl bulge in this portly and muddled Dunkel.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam covers the hazy amber-brown.
-The finish is relatively quiet, slightly mineral.
-The body is quite nourishing, but the malts aren’t well developed.
-That diacetyl is quite bothersome in the nose.

Bottle.

Dunkel with chocolate malts has a bit of an American porter profile. Decent medium bodied beer, my buddy who shared a bomber loves the stuff.

En fût. Pinte dégustée chez Old Mill Pub (Skowhegan, ME). Arôme: Odeur de céréales grilées et de céréales. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée brunâtre avec une moyenne densité de bulle. Saveur: Goût de caramel avec une pointe de café. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de café en arrière goût. (Rating #1775)

(22 oz. bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/augusta/l target=blank>Lou’s Beverage Barn) Hop aboard the Oak Pond Dairy Express...Pours dark slightly hazy iced tea brown with a tall tan head. Aroma is strong buttercream (uh-oh here we go again, a-la the Oktoberfest). Mouthfeel light-medium, a little watery. Patchy bits of lacing. Flavor is butter, butter, butter plus sourish tang and finally if you can get past that there is some chocolate. Yek. Something must be messed up in their brewing or bottling. This is currently listed as a Vienna here but I’d call it a dunkel (brewer’s description plus chocolatey taste and dark appearance).

220z bomber (bottle says its a munich dunkel style dark larger )clear dark mahogany brown llittle head. aroma is toasted malty . a creamy mouthfeel the toasted chocolate malts is in the front with a sweat fruity finish truely a great find (if you can ) only sold 50 miles from brewery for now

22oz bomber from Ron’s. Hazy dark brown translucent body with a quarter inch of light tan head. Smells like caramel and chocolate malts. Tastes rather roasty, chocolate and caramel malts dominate. Somewhat burnt I think, making this one slightly astringent but not overly so. Creamy mouthfeel. Relatively drinkable though. A pretty solid beer, one of this brewery’s best for sure.

64 oz growler from the brewery. Vienna eh? It’s a bit darker than other viennas i’ve had but the taste is pretty similar. Big malt and yeast profile. Smells yeasty right from the pour. Very appatizing though, the most surprising thing was the solid coffee aftertaste. Pour is dark brown with some mahogany notes. Tan white head...very foamy at first but retreats to a film. I was happily surprised by this beer. For the type of things i’ve seen from Skowhegan in the past I expected some redneck attempt at a beer. This is actually pretty good!