Tumšais
Cesvaines Alus Daritava in Cesvaine, Vidzeme, Latvia 🇱🇻
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
5.88
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 6
thanks omhper! Deep copper colour, mediumsized fluffy beige head. Aroma is caramel, toasted, some mild biscuity and chocolaty tones to it. Flavour is wooden, toasted, caramelly with some mild chocolaty tones to it. Still quite much on the watery side of things.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2025
at 16:24
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled 500ml (from brewery shop)
Ruby colour, small beige head. Molasses, choco aromas in the nose. Light to medium-bodied. Quite straightforward sweetish caramalt flavour with light toastyness and chocomalt. Very low bitterness. This is even a bit close to some commerical kvasses.
Ruby colour, small beige head. Molasses, choco aromas in the nose. Light to medium-bodied. Quite straightforward sweetish caramalt flavour with light toastyness and chocomalt. Very low bitterness. This is even a bit close to some commerical kvasses.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2024
at 19:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2019
at 07:14
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
19/7/2019. Bottle from Lauvas Alus, Riga. Pours amber brown with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of toffee, malt, chocolate, fruit and molasses. Medium plus sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness. Medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation. Not a style I normally enjoy but this was pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2019
at 22:36
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Re-rate based on checklist, old score 6/4/7/4/14=3,5 Smell-weak malty Foam- thin, malty, acidic, kvassy a bit. Head is small to medium, brown-white color. Appearance- generic bottle with black bottle cap. Seems black. From - tea cup Taste - malty, acidic, some roast and weak caramel. 1l resealable version was better than 0.5 l bottle, maybe batches differ, but seems we have gone full circle - bad, ok, and bad again. Not consistent beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2019
at 13:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
1.5L PET bottle from Alus Pasaule, Riga Not much nose at all on this one, just faintly earthy. Pours a dark murky reddish brown, without much head. Initial taste is overwhelmingly diacetyl, but later other flavours come through, cough drops, cherries and peanuts. Soft carbonation. Finish is a profound sweetness. The diacetyl and method of bottling mean I would regard this more as a traditional ale (Latvian Country / Lauku beer) rather than a dunkel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2018
at 22:02
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at a fair at Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum. Dark brown with a beige head. Roasty and malty aroma; dark bread, dark fruits, hints of coffee and chocolate. Quite okay. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cesvaines Tumšais Alus on 03 Jun 2018 at 13:56 - Score: 5
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2018
at 11:07