Penn Dark Lager Beer

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Dunkel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

The pour yields a hefty head, and it looks appealing, although not as dark as I hoped. I don’t detect much aroma at all. It has a dark golden red color, with lively small carbonation bubbles. The lacing is pronounced at first, but then fades to speckled ghost lacing. Solid mouthfeel, but just never really hits any part of my palate from first tongue touch all the way to finish. The malts seem weakly represented, and the hops virtually undetectable. Certainly not a beer I’ll be sending in a beer trade...

Bottle: Reddish brown, beige head, thin, decent lacing.   Roasted malts, campfire aroma.   Soft malts, charred wood on the tongue.   Rather thin however.   Clean finish, but way too light to be interesting.   Thanks Bill!

From the bottle this brew pours a dark cherry red, very clear, with a tall rocky off-white head that leaves good lacing. Aroma has a nice chocolate hint in the malts. The malts in the flavor grow as it warms in your mouth releasing flavors of caramel and chocolate finishing very well balaced with a light roast. Very smooth and balanced brew.

Burnt amber in color, slightly smokey, burnt flavor balanced with a touch of malty sweetness.

Very nice color and arome. Tastes matly but not too sweet. Pleasant beer. Tastes mildly of coffe and some pleasand burnt flavors.

From the bottle. Pours a amber brown, with a tan head that left little lacing. The initial aroma was fruity, and then nutty, but as it warms I pick up malt and honey. It has a nice malty flavor that finishes dry and bitter, but not overly intense. The body is good but it seems to slip off the sides of the tongue a little. Overall this is a really nice dunkel.

A smooth, burnt malty flavor that goes down smoothly and leaves a clean after taste... this is what I look for in a dark lager. The aroma is subtle with just a hint of sweetness. This was a most pleasant surprise that I received from a beer club and, if it was available locally, I would keep a regular supply on hand.

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Pours dark brown almost black with thin tan head. There is some roasted flavor and burnt malt, a hint of sweetness and finishes with a hint of hops. Mouthfeel was a little thin and I would have liked to have seen a little more of all the flavors. It was easy to drink, perhaps a good session brew.