Dark Helmet
The Brew Kettle Brewery in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.59
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Frothingslosh (18912) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Black with orange highlights and a medium sized beige head. Toasty malt with a hint of wood. Medium finish and body. Alcohol well controlled.
superspak (10163) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, no bottle dating. Pours clear nearly opaque dark brown color, with a 2 finger dense and fluffy tan head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toasted dark bread, and nuttiness; with light coffee, raisin, plum, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with good strength. Taste of big chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toasted dark bread, biscuit, and nuttiness; with light coffee, raisin, plum, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal hop and roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toasted dark bread, biscuit, nuttiness, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from roast/bitterness as well. Nicely clean on lager flavors with minimal yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/silky, and lightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice imperial schwarzbier style. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. Very rich and well rounded in malt complexity. A very enjoyable offering.
shrubber (15736) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Chocolate fudge malt and hay aroma. Sweet chocolate fudge malt and hay flavor. Nice body - grew on me.
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours opaque black with a medium creamy brown head that dissipates fairly slowly and laces decently. Aroma is very dark malty, roasted malts, cocoa, molasses. Flavor follows, medium sweet, light bitter, very malt forward, creamy and cocoa like, with just a hint of coffee. Medium plus body, creamy mouthfeel. Good beer.
smith4498 (4269) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from a trade with barak316. Pours translucent black color with tan head. Toasted malt and bready aroma with some chocolate. Similar flavors. Light to medium body with average carbonation. Thanks Bill.
nuplastikk (10387) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
12oz bottle. Opaque brown-black body. Thin, oily beige head laces the glass. Pretty surprisingly smooth for 9%, still really comes off as a Schwarz. Smooth brown chocolate tones, not sticky or brutal. Really quite an impressive offering, noteworthy for how smooth and sessionable it is. Clean. Great.
Anders37 (30391) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark ruby brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel and chocolate aroma. Roasted malty bitter chocolate and caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty bitter chocolate and caramel finish.
yespr (55607) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is vegetables and roasted malty. Bitter, toasted malty and caramelish. Bitter and light herbal into a roasted malty finish.
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 35,5 cl. Pours a reddish, dark brown with a small, off-white head. Somewhat roasty nose with some perfumy hops. Rich, sweet body with vanillaish roast and a rather bitter finish. 120713
cheap (9479) reviewed Dark Helmet from The Brew Kettle Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Froma bottle, quite aromatic. Big abnd dark. I had high hopes for this becasue the label said black lager. Is everything imperial these days? Big strong in yer face alky, not sure how this is a lager. By taste? NEVER. Think imerial stout or imperial porter on this, perhaps even foreign stout, yes, the last time I tasted something like this it was lion stout. wew. strong. Session is kick you in the teeth. Finish is kick you in the head.