Dark
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
6.55
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Harpoon Dark is a Harpooner favorite, and has been since we first started brewing it. While the beer has never been our lead horse outside the brewery walls, that’s okay by us. We’re just happy brewing it and drinking it.
A blend of specialty malts gives our Dark a velvety mouthfeel with roasted notes and a hint of chocolate, balanced by a subtle hop aroma. Hard to describe but easy to drink, Harpoon Dark is rich in character and light on the palate. The overall character is hearty malt and chocolate balanced with a crisp hop bitterness.
A blend of specialty malts gives our Dark a velvety mouthfeel with roasted notes and a hint of chocolate, balanced by a subtle hop aroma. Hard to describe but easy to drink, Harpoon Dark is rich in character and light on the palate. The overall character is hearty malt and chocolate balanced with a crisp hop bitterness.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Very nice pour from a bottle. Dark, opaque, with a thin head, off-white with tan and blue notes. Aroma is sweet caramel, bananas, almost bananas foster-ish, with even a slight hint of bubblegum. Flavor is very nice, sweet, dark chocolate with a bitter chocolate finish. Nice full mouthfeel, overall very good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2014
at 12:38
10/10
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 21:55
8/10
Tried
on 02 Apr 2013
at 06:40
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bomber. Pours a dark amber with a medium beige head that quickly diminishes leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is a bready malt, raisin, and caramel. Medium mouthfeel with a sweet toast caramel and chocolate with lingering dry finish. A good dunkel from Harpoon.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2012
at 18:26
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into pilsener glass, best before 4/15/2012. Pours crystal clear reddish brown color with a small 1 finger tan head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Good spotty lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of big caramel, toffee, nuttiness, biscuit, chocolate, vanilla, toast, and light fruitiness. Fantastic aromas with great balance and complexity. Taste of caramel, chocolate, toffee, biscuit, nuttiness, toast, herbal, roast, and light dark fruits. Lingering notes of caramel, chocolate, herbal, toast, nuttiness, toffee, and light fruitiness. Nice balance and complexity of flavors; with no cloying sweetness at all. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy and crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a great Munich Dunkel! Nice flavor balance and robustness; and very smooth to drink. Really enjoyed this, and this might be my choice for an easily available dunkel in the future.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2012
at 19:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at the source. Very dark clear maroon, tan head. Aroma of burnt toast and dark cocoa. Taste is coffee grounds and bread diugh. Fuller body than most dunkels.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2012
at 11:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bran flakes and walnut nose. Clear brown, medium tan head., little retention. Cola, charcoal, dark roasted barley malt flavor. Smoky finish. Decent offering of a style that is poorly executed by most American breweries.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Aug 2012
at 18:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
~6 oz sampler at the Harpoon taproom in Boston Logan airport. The pour is brown golden, mostly clear. The aroma is light caramel sweet malt, along with a light roast character. Fresh aroma. The taste is a nice mix of the lightly sweet malt and the dry char roast. The palate is light bodied, natural carbonation and a flinty dry finish. Nice, this was a really easy drinking beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jun 2012
at 14:59
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
Picked this up for around $6 from Harpoon Brewery in Windsor Vermont. Enjoyed in a Hill Farmstead glass.
A - Poured a nut brown colour. Dark brown appearance SRM of 35 in the glass but at the pour, it’s much lighter. One finger tan head subsided quickly with a minor bit of lacing left behind.
S - Very nutty roasted malts. Slight bits of fudge and caramel and grapefruits.
T - Big malt forward taste very german taste, mocha and a nice level of bitterness. Falls short though on the finish and fullness of the malts and has a edge of watery taste but that is sort of in line with this style
M - 85% Carbonation, medium body and a very weak bavarian yeast finish.
O - It’s drinkable, perhaps on a warm day but overall weak and not something I’d seek out again.
Earlier Rating: 3/20/2012 Total Score: 3.3
Had this at a party. Enjoyed in a pint glass
A - dark brown, slight head that stuck around
S - german bock comes to mind. Dry, malty and very earthy.
T - Smoked malts, some honey and a bit of citrus on the back end. nice balance of hops but tastes like something you’d’ get on tap at a bar in Germany or Belgium which isn’t terrible but not what I look for in beer.
M - 100% carbonation on the mouth swish, lingering dry ness and mild maltiness that sticks around FOREVER.
O - Drinkable but probably better on tap.
A - Poured a nut brown colour. Dark brown appearance SRM of 35 in the glass but at the pour, it’s much lighter. One finger tan head subsided quickly with a minor bit of lacing left behind.
S - Very nutty roasted malts. Slight bits of fudge and caramel and grapefruits.
T - Big malt forward taste very german taste, mocha and a nice level of bitterness. Falls short though on the finish and fullness of the malts and has a edge of watery taste but that is sort of in line with this style
M - 85% Carbonation, medium body and a very weak bavarian yeast finish.
O - It’s drinkable, perhaps on a warm day but overall weak and not something I’d seek out again.
Earlier Rating: 3/20/2012 Total Score: 3.3
Had this at a party. Enjoyed in a pint glass
A - dark brown, slight head that stuck around
S - german bock comes to mind. Dry, malty and very earthy.
T - Smoked malts, some honey and a bit of citrus on the back end. nice balance of hops but tastes like something you’d’ get on tap at a bar in Germany or Belgium which isn’t terrible but not what I look for in beer.
M - 100% carbonation on the mouth swish, lingering dry ness and mild maltiness that sticks around FOREVER.
O - Drinkable but probably better on tap.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jun 2012
at 18:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at Rattle ’N’ Hum, as part of a flight of beers, on January 30, 2012Clear dark brown color, tan head. Roasted, malty, banana scent. Malty, roasted taste. Smooth. Moussy mouthfeel, medium low bitterness.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2012
at 08:00