Stoudts PA Dutch Dunkle

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Dunkelweizen
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

On tap at the KSBF ’08. Poured a deeper and cloudy amber color with a larger sized off white head. Aromas of wheat, cereal, lightly spicy, and grains. Tastes of the same wheaty/cereal with light spices. Wheaty.
Earlier Rating: 8/29/2008 Total Score: 3.8
On tap at Capones. Poured a deeper and cloudy amberish / brownish color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of bananas, wheat, and cloves. Tastes of bananas, cloves, and toasted wheatiness.

Draft. Pours hazy dark coppery with brown edges and off-tan head. Nose is pumpernicly bready malt, walnut, nutmeggy spice, and banana. Tastes roasty toasty malty, with the banana, walnut, and nutmeggy flavors kicking in at mid-palate, and a finishing earthy note.

Draft at BT. Pours a mahogany body with a thin lacing of an off white head. Sweet with fruity esters of banana, bubblegum, clove citrus. Finish is clove, oak, and malty caramel.

[Draft @ Capones] Poured a hazy brown amber color with a medium sized, light tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of banana, clove, some roast, cocoa, nuts, caramel, and wheat malt. Taste of banana, clove, nuts, caramel, toast, and light citrus.

On tap at Capones. Pours a hazy brownish amber with a medium creamy/bubbly off white head that laced. Aroma of banana, clove, toasted malt and nuts. Flavor of ripe bananas, cloves, toffee, lightly smokey with some toasted malt.

Draught at TDR Ex.: Aroma of banana, spices, cream, and cloves. Poured brown in color with a big, rocky, dense, off-white head that lasted throughout. Flavor of cinnamon, banana, spices, malted chocolate, cola, toasting, and wheat. Medium body. Thin, chalky texture. Soft carbonation. Cocoa finish.

The most interesting part about this beer is the label and glass. It was shared by mreusch through way of hopdog, thanks go out to both. So what we are looking at is a large format bottle with an old, I mean old ass Stoudts label saying Reserve or something. Then there is a small printed piece of paper glued on top of that sayings it’s a dunkel. I am trying to figure out how old this is and I see the label says its a 765mL bottle, something that Stoudts has not put out for many years, exciting, right? But then I see the glass actually says its a 750mL bottle. Well now things are becoming clear, Stoudts used old ass lables with their new bottles, must have found a stash somewhere. And on top of that, its actually a capable 750mL but they use cork and wire anyway. Seems to explain the high sticker price I guess.

Oh and the beer, well it pours with a big bubbly, soapy head. Body is hazy, dark copper, almost brown. Head drops so quickly though, almost as if there was nothing there. Aroma is fruity, lightly bready black wheat. Nice aroma but the taste lets down a bit. Just like watery dark wheat bread, not much else. Lightly sweet and the body becomes just a bit sticky at the end. First raters of the bottle, that’s pretty cool.

750 ml bottle shared by mreusch. Pours a hazy dark caramel with a beige head that collapses quickly to a still surface. The nose is of sweet caramel, clove and a mild, stale root beer note. Light-bodied but with a mouth-filling fine carbonation, the flavor follows the nose with a dry finish (a bit odd for the style). It was great to get the chance to try it, but as a fan of dunkelweizens, I was fairly underwhelmed by this one.