Okocim Palone

Formerly brewed at Carlsberg Polska
Style: Dunkel
Warszawa, Poland

From a 500ml can - a medium body and full mouthfeel with a slightly rich, chocolately flavor. Not too caramely like many Polish "ciemne" beers. OKAY dry/sweet flavor balance. Impressive flaming dragon illustration.

500ml bottle from BeersOfEurope. A dark, malty, sweet lager with a gentle, mouse-like carbonation and flavours of French coffee, Mars bars and honey. Attractive label with an image of a phoenix rising through flames, and the dramatic byline of Fire-brewed Dark Beer. Finish is rather flat and metallic. The sweetness is pleasant, and this is not a heavy beer. But I don’t quite get dark lagers. I understand the crisp, bland, refreshing quality of a pale lager. But a dark lager asks for something more. And certainly the sweetness of this beer asks for a bit more balancing bitterness in the finish. It’s drinkable stuff, but fails in some areas for me - balance, mouthfeel, interest, development, irony and humour. Despite all that, I’d drink this again. There’s a subtle , beguiling mystery.

Can. Clear dark brown with a creamish frothy off-white mostly diminishing head. Sweet aroma of some roasted malts and grains. Flavour of sweet roasty malts, some hops and caramel. Dry roastish sweet finish. Too sweet.

Found at Eagle Provisions, NYC. Very decent for its style, it has a decent dark appearance and malty aroma. Quite drinkable, nicely malted not sweet, balanced with some moderate bitterness. A bit of smoke in taste and average mouthfeel, I taste caramel. .

500 Ml Bottle-Pours a moderate brown color w/almost no head, did have a little bit of lacing. Sweet, smoked, roasted malt aroma. Smoked flavor hits you on the first drink, has undertones of roasted malt & chocolate which become more evedent as you drink it, but the moderate smoked flavor never goes away. Nice bittersweet finish, good balance. Long finish.

500 ml bottle, via SoLan. Pours a clear dark mahogany brown under a small fizzy light brown head that faded quickly to a thin ring. Nose has lots of smoke with some grainy dry roasted malt. Flavor has a good bit of smoke up front followed by lots of sweet lightly roasty malt. A touch of coffee late in the finish. Zero hops present. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with quite a bit of risidual sugars. Light low level of fizzy carbonation. Finishes a little sticky. This really treads the line between a Smoked and a Dunkel. At first taste I thought it was clearly a Smoked, but the more I drank the sweeter it got, muting the smoke.

Bottle poured black with thin head. Aroma and flavor of corn and grain with a metalic flavor that hangs on the palate. Thin body, sweet malty finish.

Bottle, Metal and burnt grains for aroma. Light brown body with tan fizzy head. Mutiple flavors some roasted and burnt grains and had a soda cola carbination going on. Metalic after taste on the palate. Cool lable on the bottle caught my eye so marketing did a good job on this one.