Dark
August Schell Brewing Company in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
5.62
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drpimento (5889) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Very mild multi aroma. Small creamy head no lace. Flavor is likewise very mild malt almost dominated by Carbonic Tang. Forgettable.
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Pours clear reddish chestnut, small beige head, some lacing. Aroma is malty, hints of roasted malt, cardboard, rubber, green apple. Flavor is medium sweet, apples, roast malt. Medium body, meh.
superspak (10163) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 8/3/2015. Pours crystal clear reddish copper/brown color with a 1 finger dense light tan head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavors with minimal yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, lightly creamy/bready, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a nice dark lager style. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; and very smooth, clean, and easy to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
LeninCat (7985) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle in hotel room, picked up at a Hy-Vee in Lincoln, NE. Clear bottle = classy x10. A bit hazy, light brown appearance with a cream head. A bit nutty, light toffee, skunky, fairly shitty aroma. Pretty shitty, very very metallic, nutty, toffee, bland flavor. Each sip is like licking a 9v battery. Wowza.
queenholly (3622) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle. Weak malt aroma. Light brown with a small beige head. Malt kind of like stale bread. Pretty gross, but I’ve actually had worse.
jcwattsrugger (14779) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle-pours copper with a tight light tan head. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, 2nd earthy/spice. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, dark fruit-plum/cherry, 2nd earthy/spice hops. Macro-ish.
notalush (7333) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
There is something I find really off-putting about beer i clear glass bottles - why Schell decided to put this in clear glass is strange, considering all the other beers I have had from them were in brown glass - what the hell!? - anyway - like a lot of the other lagers I have had from this brewery, this one is fairly underrated, though not as much so as the others - dark brown pour with a moderate, fizzy lace - fairly smooth - starts out medium dry, with some notes of cocoa and roasted nuts - sweetness develops through the middle, and becomes moderate by the finish, as some almost bock-like notes of raisin and caramel develop - a touch of hop bitterness arrives at the tail end to temper the sweetness a bit - the one flaw I find is that the corn used becomes fairly noticeable by the end - why even use it? - other than that, this is a fairly clean and balanced dark lager.that might benefit from some recipe tweaking.
nuplastikk (10387) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
12oz in a clear bottle. Filtered brown-amber color. Fluffy head. The aroma isn’t so attractive, sugary and macro. Drinkable, sort of a half-ass Newcastle. Malty, nutty, some caramel. Lacks the richness of most German Dunkels. Not horrible, bur certainly below par.
cheap (9479) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Interestingly, this is in a clear 12 oz bottle with a twist off cap. Pour is like root beer. Has a very yeasty aroma with possibly some malt olfactory too. Good initial carbonation. Malty flavors on the first taste. Flavor is quite interesting and there does not seem to be any offensive hop bitterness. The taste buds seem to pick up mostly malty and alky flavors, taste seems to have much more alky in it than the 4.8% listed here. Finish is somewhat roasty without being over the top and that alky malty hint hangs for a while after the session.
Frothingslosh (18912) reviewed Dark from August Schell Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled from a 12 oz clear bottle this beer poured a chestnut color with a small tan head. The aroma is sour tangy macro malts. The flavor is sour and tangy macro malts with a long smooth middle and a slightly bitter finish. Somewhat bland but quite drinkable.