Dark copper with a lasting creamy off-white head. Caramel and molasses in the aroma with a hint of butter. Dry dark malt flavour with some molasses.

Bottle at home from GBBF07 ... Deep brown ... smokey fruity nose ... watery light fruit malt with a little smokeyness in linger ... bit 1 dimensional but drinkable.

Dark brown color. Aroma of raw cereals. Thin body, just dry flavor of cereals, caramel and some roasted malt. Simple.

Aroma of medium, caramel malt, with just a hint of something darker, like chocolate. About as dark as a porter, approaching a stout opacity. The (I think) white head almost completely dissapeared while getting this far typing. A true roasted aroma as the glass approaches the lips. Almost like roast coffee of a sort. Medium bodied. Moderate to low carbonation. It starts with a roasted grain/coffee taste. It is not all that sweet. Not getting chocolate. The finish is not really dry, but the residual dark malt roast performs the function of hop bitterness. I can almost image the bitterness remaining after a cup of coffee, except there must have been a bit of sweetener in the cup. A really good variation on the typical German style. Much lighter, arguably much tastier. Rich, could be. Complex, oh yes!

Bottle. Dark ruby black beer with a tan head. Caramel, malt, and slight hay aroma. Caramel malt with a bit of roastiness and chocolate and backing smokiness. Medium body. Lingering caramel and earth with malt.

Batch 34 bottle consumed on 4/27/07
Medium-beige head is one-finger in height and very foamy, receding fairly rapidly to parial cover, then ring, then nothing. No lacing. Pretty predictable appearance, seeing that it’s filtered, force carbed (and probably pasteurised). Clear, medium-brown color has some beige and chestnut notes.
Smells a bit stale and rather nutty. Some old coffee grinds lying around, with light hazelnut notes and a bit of earthiness. Caramel makes its way forth, with warming, adding a bit more firm maltiness and there’s a reasonably apparent lager yeast finish, though it’s somewhat muted by a lingering dryness/staleness. Medium to medium-weak strength of aroma. No flaws, nor any alcohol perceived.
Sweet caramel, with light nuttiness and a touch of coffee. Seems to pass rather quickly, but on the finish there was a distinct note of light char and toffee mixing together. It added a nice chewiness and drew out the flavor longer than is usual for these simple beers. Medium to medium-light in body, rather simple in its sweetness, with no flaws. Filtered texture, however, is a bit of a let down, as is the fizzy carbonation that gives the beer quite a bit of looseness and wateriness, moreso than I would expect for the style, as it greatly detracts from any crispness. Very well-brewed stuff, and lagered properly to-boot, but aside from a little extra oomph of flavors/complexity, I’m still back to harping on the texture.

American Beer in Brooklyn had just one of these botlles sitting next to the register. The label is different and in English. Pours watery dark brown with a very small head. The aroma is corny, malty and alcoholic. The taste started out bad but as it warmed noticed lots of coffee in the end of the flavor. Still the body was thin and ad a cheap malty backbone. I was disgusted at first but it grew on me as it warmed.

Bottled. Dark ruby. Rich coffee aroma. Very roasty with loads of chocoalte, medium sweet and quite soft. Some bitterness rounds of this really well made dunkel.