Warsteiner Premium Dunkel

Brewed by Warsteiner Brauerei
Style: Dunkel
Warstein, Germany

As Borat would say NICE! Great on the palate... Good taste and goes down too easy. Keep the beer flowing!

Very dark pour with very little head. Initial taste was warm with a little bit of sweet malt coming through, followed by a nice bitter crisp

This beer is commonly available in the US, but I thought it a fairly good example of a dunkel weiss, given a fairly limited amount of experience with the style. Pours a copper-colored body with a good amount of what I’ll call "mainstream beer" head on it, which fades fairly quickly. Aroma is faint, but is slightly sweet and a bit spicy (maybe cinammon?). Taste is caramel malt, a touch of souriness, and a bit of oakiness. In my memory, this is fairly typical for the dunkel style. Mouthfeel is not thin, but is not overpoweringly sticky. I found this beer fairly drinkable, and on those times when I want something very malty (I should add, in the interest of full disclosure, that I’m usually looking for something hoppy), I would not rule this out.

Brown color with a light tan head that doesn’t last long. Good malty aroma and taste.

From the bottle, pours a medium brown color with a quickly fading head. Aroma and taste of roasted malts. Kind of reminds me of Michelob Amber Bock.

On draft at lunch today. Appearance is the best part of this brew - a lovely black that lets very little light through, capped by an inch of off-white head. Aroma is nuts and alcohol. Has a good feeling in the mouth, but the flavor lacks punch. You get caramel, nuts, and smoke. Not bad, but everything comes on too weak, and there aren’t enough layers "coming on" to begin with. Disappointing.

Pours in nicely. Caramel color with a medium head. No distinctive taste, except for the few hops at the end. Nothing different, and liked other Dunkels over this one.

The description "A light bodied clean dark lager" is very fitting. It pours dark with a carbonated looking light tan head. Aroma is hard to detect due to the smell of alcohol and carbonation. The taste is simple; malt, molasses, and caramel. The taste of alcohol and carbonation are too apparent to really enjoy the other flavors.