Sweet toffee, roasted grains, grapes and raisins. Rather sweet with only a hint of bitterness. Good Dunkel.

Tap. Clear brown color with ruby highlight and creamy beige head. Aroma is milk chocolate, cocoa, earthy, a touch bubblegum. Taste is milk chocolate, strawberries with cream, cocoa, sweet. Silky mouthfeel with high, but soft carbonation. Good, despite the sweetness!

Tap at Hirter Braukeller in Hirt-Austria. Cola color with an ivory medium-low foam. Nose: caramel and cocoa powder. Mouth starts clean and leads to a bitterness perhaps given by dark malts.

Donker bruin bier met schuim. Smaak is zoet en licht bitter met iets van chocolade, koffie en noten.

0.5l bottle. Malty aroma, roasted malts, caramel, light coffee notes. Dark brown color, ivory head. Malty taste, coffee, roasted malts, caramel, light sweet, light to medium bitter. Light body, slick texture, soft carbonation and bitter-sweet finish. Good.

Mahagoni with medium beige head. Aroma is intense phneolic apples, bubblegum, some sweet malt stuff. Taste is sour citric juice with slight sweet malt. Quite heavy but very sparkly. Meh.

Bot, finally a chance to taste the notorious hirter dunkle. 11 oz bottle, how come those euroguys always try to rip us yankies off for an ounce? In my little sniffer this has a very mild malt nose. Nice and dark, looks like a dark american lager. Personality is a little more than a typical mild dark lager, has a tad of that baltic thang goin on here. After I get over the initial baltiness of it all it then settles down to stripped shucked attitude about it. In the background, I may detect a hair of smoke, but now I think I just imagined it. AH! I think I taste the soft mountain spring water used in the brewing which has been left to mature in a none GMO prolonged aging process, go figger. I’m liking these mild darker beers, so much more enjoyable than a stupid baltic, foreign imp stout porter, heheheh.

On tap at Krah, krah, Vienna, Austria. February 2014. Shared with lovely Anja. Dark red to dark brown color, lasting off-white head. Faint aroma, malts and caramel. Strong toffee flavor, nuts, caramel, some bitterness in the finish. Light body, soft carbonation, drinkable, a bit bland. Good Dunkel and a drinkable brew.

Bottle: Red-brown with a frothy tan head. Caramel malt, chocolate aroma. Taste is dark bread, caramel malt, raisin. An older bottle, so a bit of oxidation in scent and flavour.....and a little flat. Nothing exciting......probably pretty solid when fresh.

Pours a dark brown color, topped with a fine tan colored head, lasting. Roasted malts in the aroma, some mild sweet caramel. Taste starts slightly sweet, taken over by roastiness and some caramel, slight coffee feel. Mild bitterness in the end. Decent.