Original Dark Lager
Husbryggeriet Jacobsen in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
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5.85
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Jacobsen Original Dark Lager is brewed on the oldest recipe in the Carlsberg archives - JC Jacobsen’s original recipe of 1854. To re-create the original recipe, the Jacobsen Brewhouse focused on one of the key ingredients in beer - water. Water highly influences the taste of beer and by analysing the water used in Jacobsen’s time, an exact copy of his original ingredient was created by adding salts and minerals.
The main raw material is Münchenermalt from Germany but a "floor malt" from England is also added, just as was done in the 1850's. The beer is fermented at low temperature to give a special mild and rounded caramel flavour.
The main raw material is Münchenermalt from Germany but a "floor malt" from England is also added, just as was done in the 1850's. The beer is fermented at low temperature to give a special mild and rounded caramel flavour.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
It is a regular beer, nothing special, on the Bavarian school, with this brewery we find a final note soapy and a bit unpleasant, 03.07.17, buying it at one coop, tasting it at home, Prélaz, Lausanne.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2025
at 15:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Big bottle from a really nice gift pack of two glasses, and two bottles, one of the dark lager, and one of the saaz blonde. Very nice bready, grainy, and malty aroma. Flavour is full bodied, but at the same time tame. A nice malty flavour with notes of caramel, and raisins. A nice dunkel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:01
5/10
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Tried
on 19 Sep 2018
at 11:26
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
bottiglia 33 cl, schiuma fine beige media persistenza, color mogano marrone limpido, al naso malto spezie, in bocca malto tostato caramello zucchero di canna, carbonatazione piatta, corpo leggero, amaro moderato, dolce nel finale. 27.01.18
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2018
at 17:51
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Coop. Pours clear darkish amber. Aroma is light liquorice and caramel, roasted malts, toasted malts, toffee. Body is medium, soft bitterness and light liquorice flavour, little sweetness, soft carbonation. Rather rough texture and sugary. Caramel palate. Not well balanced, okay.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2017
at 16:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
0.33l bottle from coop in zurich. pours a clear deep chestnut with a frothy off-white head. aroma of leaves, nuts, roast. flavour of toasted malts, walnuts, leaves, slight caramel. not so watery as many a dunkel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2017
at 17:47
6/10
Tried
on 13 Jul 2015
at 13:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330 ml bottle @ Bodils Kro, Skagen. Clear, dark brown body with a small off-white head that disappears fast. Plain aroma of dark malt. Flavor is mild roasted dark malt, quite smooth, low bitterness makes it feel rather sweet. Medium body and a bit short in aftertaste. Straight forward, easy and a bit one dimensional but goes well together with the fish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2014
at 11:10
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Irma Illum, Copenhagen - brown coloured pour with off-white head. Aroma and taste is sweet toasty malty, caramel, nutty, some dark fruit, medium body, sweet malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2014
at 05:47
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
’Münchener’ Dunkel made by Jacobsen, a brewery opened by Carlsberg in 2005 and named after Carlsberg’s 19th-century founder, allegedly brewed to a recipe by himself. Light beige, moussy, stable head, colour a deep chestnut brown with bronze hue, clear. Aroma of caramel, roasted beef, barbecue sauce, walnuts, black pepper. Malty taste, well-rounded, caramelly and nutty, smooth with light sourish touch, leafy hop bitterness in the finish, medium thin mouthfeel, but it’s a lager after all. And an interesting one indeed.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2014
at 09:14