Kilikia Dark
Yerevan Brewery in Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia 🇦🇲
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
5.56
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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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Huge thanks to WillemsUrenkel for that one! Bottle with an unusual format. Looks interesting. Beer in the glass dark brown, huge head. Sweetish malty aroma. Starts mild, malty, more and more sweetish. Some caramel, some plum, some sugar. Some syrup. Finish could be more balanced. Not my cup of tea...
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2026
at 13:16
4.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
0,5 l bottle from the Mix Markt in town. BB 19.02.27. Clear dark red to brown in the glass, small light tanned head. Sweeeet caramel with some fruity elements on the nose. Taste is surprisingly dry malty, thin coffee, low berryfruity, bready. Soft bitterness. Low carbonated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2026
at 20:35
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
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
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