Okocim Palone

Formerly brewed at Carlsberg Polska
Style: Dunkel
Warszawa, Poland

Small, bubbly tan head, fair retention, lace is stringy, thin and patchy. An almost black brew with a ruby red glow. Body is light/medium, sorta nuetral. Nose of faint roast and some sweet malts. Medium sweet malt flavors, light roast, smoke and caramel. Medium sweet finish.

500 ml bottle. Dark brown beer with a thin tan head. Aroma is lovely, earthy, peaty smokiness, toasted malt, light caramel, some light herbal hop aroma. Flavour is farily refreshing and medium bodies with a moderately sweet caramelly flavour, toasted bread and a soft, but insistant sweet smokiness. A minerally character in the mouth gives the beer a crispness that accents its otherwise soft maltiness. Another lovely beer on this somewhat surprising evening of European brews.

Almost black colored, slight red hints. Fastly vanishing head. Roasted, some sweet coke-a-like tones in aroma. Medium bodied. Flavor is also strongly sweet with caramel and some roastiness. Mild hops and sweetness in aftertaste, too sweet for my taste.

I thought this was going to be a smoked beer, since my Polish friends told me what it meant in English, the name. BUt it was rather a Swarz Beer very sweet, good foam and not tiring.

500 ml can. Dark ruby red, almost black. Thick fine-laced greyish head. Dry lightly roasted malts. Subdued aromas. Toffee and burnt caramel. Rich sweetness balanced by burnt malts. Interesting combination. Smoke notes. Seems like there as been used beechwood smoked malts in the beers as it resembles a rauchbier, just not as bold. The sweetness and roastedness is quite nice, but not far from cloying. More potent than your average dunkel. Quite bitter as it leaves a drying feeling in the mouth after swallowing. Without the bitterness it would have too sweet.

[From can] Dark brown colour. Light caramelly along with a little smoke and coffee. There are more bitterness, than in the dunkels we know.

Bottle @ Tres Bonne Cuisine, a local polish deli: Dark brown color, light head and lacing. Nose of light smoke, some roast and honey malt. Flavor of light sweet malt, a bit of earthy caramelly notes in the tail. A dark lagerish style beer with a bit of smoke, a bit more interesting that the regular okocim stuff.

Bottled(500ml). -thin and sweet, very sweet malty aroma with slight coffee and sweet caramel notes, slightly bitter and buttery finish