Warsteiner Premium Dunkel

Brewed by Warsteiner Brauerei
Style: Dunkel
Warstein, Germany

A dark brown, almost cola brown, definitely inviting. Aroma is strongly malty with a hint of caramel. Flavor is well-rounded, not complex but delicious and satisfying, malty with just a hint of hops and a whisper of sweetness. Rather smooth and pleasant.

THOUGHTS: I used to love this beer and while I still like it, it doesn’t even compare to Penn Dark, which I tried the same night. But it will still be one of my favorite session beer. It is a good beer that at least in NJ is very affordable. PA prives for it are more than double. One of the first imports or speciality beers I bought on a regular basis. Just a little too much mustiness underlying in the aroma and flavor keep it from being great, and that might just be from travel. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a meium brown with orange highlights and a small to average, white head that mostly diminished but left fair lacing. The aroma was light to moderate hay, strw and carmel malts with moderate to heavy grassy hops and moderate doughy yeast. The initial flavor is light to moderate sweetness and light bitterness, while the finish is heavily sweet and moderately bitter and sour with an average duration. The gody is light to medium with a watery, yet dry texture fizzy carbonation and slightly chalky, lightly astringent finish.

Watery. Just a standard dark beer. Not much more to say.

Draft at a local. Pours a medium, off white heaad, of poor duration, with minimal lacing, over a dark brown (SRM 30) clear body....nose is roasted malts with heavy cereal, bit of biscuit....taste is heavy light roasted malts with cereal, slight toffee, caramel....mouth feel is light to medium, carbonation high. This meets the style reasonably.

On tap @ Fins Rehoboth-Dark brown pour w/a moderate head. Sweet malt aroma. Flavors of roasted malt, Caramel, bread dough, & candied sugar w/a little spice. Smooth, easy drinking session brew, not real complex, but nice. Full malt finish.

Beer pours a brown ale color with notes of malt on the nose. It gives you a clean flavor with some stornger notes of hops but yet drinks quite clean.

On tap this beer had a great head. The lacing was good, a bit different than i’m used to, it was very even. Although it was very clear, it was dark and I couldn’t see through it. The body was very thin, but they market it as light bodied. It was very clean tasting, but not very complex. It was a decent beer, but lacked in flavor.

Draft - A nice Dunkel. After I let it warm a bit the roasted malt flavors came through. Not the best I’ve had, but good.