Kilikia Dark
Yerevan Brewery in Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia 🇦🇲
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
5.57
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A dark beer with the pronounced taste of caramel malt, pleasant bitter taste and an aroma of hops with original taste of malted barley. Has a grain density of 12% and an alcoholic content of 4,4% vol. It’s distributed in glass bottles of 0.33 litre, 0.5 litre and in kegs. Brewed with no artificial preservatives, but the natural pasteurization process guarantees a shelf life of minimum three months.
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6.5/10
Less great than expected. Pic: the most professionally glamorous selfie of all time
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2026
at 21:51
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers! Aroma of hops, caramel, dark fruits and sultanas/raisins. Taste slightly nutty but is quite watery. Bit of a vegy aftertaste.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 09:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear brown with a foamy tan head. Aroma of dark caramel malt with a hint of herbal hop. Near med body. Flavor is dark caramel with some earthyiness and a hop that's floral. Not Tmavy, but somewhat similar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2024
at 02:39
5.8/10
Kinda watery and weak
Tried
on 05 Oct 2024
at 13:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500 ml bottle from Melbourne Beach Market. Pours a clear, very dark mahogany color with a beige head and good retention. Spotty lacing. No aroma? Dark and sweet caramel malt flavor with a little light chocolate in the finish. Not smoky like many Dunkels. Light flavors overall. Very clean and easy drinking. No sulfur notes. Medium-light body and medium-light carbonation too. Not bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2023
at 20:43
4/10
Tried
on 12 Jan 2023
at 18:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Armenian 'tmavý' or Dunkel brewed in the country's capital. Medium thick, moussy, pale yellow-beige, opening head on a clear deep caramel brown beer with warm copper red glow - seemingly a bit paler and more 'red' than is typical for a Dunkel. Aroma of caramel candy, rusty iron, plum jam, cookie dough, sugared tea, rosehip, liquorish touch (oddly), even a faint whiff of chocolate. Clean onset, sweet maltiness with a light sourish edge, medium carb, slick and thinnish body; smooth caramelly malts with cookie- and brown-bread like side notes as well as something vaguely liquorish-like retronasally; a mellow toasty bitterish edge, mixed with a dash of herbal, tea-ish hops appears in the finish, along with a spicy, almost peppery accent. The caramelly sweetness and smoothness prevails, though, and a less pleasant metallic effect is very persistent as well. Not the worst Dunkel I had, actually, smooth and simple but effective, though of course at the same time an industrial beer with a less flattering metallic aspect to it - still, better than expected, to be honest.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2022
at 12:47
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
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10/IX/22 - 50cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (Gent), BB: 15/III/23 (2022-1146) Thanks to Libor for the trade!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very watery, malty, a bit metallic, grains, hay, cow fodder. Aftertaste: metallic, hay, grains, soft roast, decent enough for a dark lager, but not really good.
10/IX/22 - 50cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (Gent), BB: 15/III/23 (2022-1146) Thanks to Libor for the trade!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very watery, malty, a bit metallic, grains, hay, cow fodder. Aftertaste: metallic, hay, grains, soft roast, decent enough for a dark lager, but not really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2022
at 18:30
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
50cl bottle at Belgian Beergeeks/Brewver summer tasting at Tim's house. Thanks Tim. BB 15/03/2023.
Cuivre, col crémeux fin blanc-cassé.
Arôme garde une touche classique, retrouve ce côté classique dans ce genre de pays. Rétro sur un côté dense en grains, presque d'avoine. Caramel et un houblonné classique noble.
Palais est malté avec une belle note de caramel (voire un peu doux), caramel le tout ayant ce côté houblonné allemand versant sur le noble. Garde une touche de céréales.
Cuivre, col crémeux fin blanc-cassé.
Arôme garde une touche classique, retrouve ce côté classique dans ce genre de pays. Rétro sur un côté dense en grains, presque d'avoine. Caramel et un houblonné classique noble.
Palais est malté avec une belle note de caramel (voire un peu doux), caramel le tout ayant ce côté houblonné allemand versant sur le noble. Garde une touche de céréales.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2022
at 16:58
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2022
at 12:55