Black
Monteith's in Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular|
Score
6.41
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap in Haast. Black but not pitch black, hints of brown. Little soft head. Roasty nose, but not extreme. Hints of liquorice in the taste, but altogether surprisingly light and refreshing. As others have mentioned, definitely sessionable.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2015
at 01:29
5/10
Tried
on 16 Nov 2014
at 21:27
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Schwarzes Bier mit geringem Schaum. Geruch röstmalzig süß. Geschmack röstmalzig, erdig, minimal säuerlich. Ein einfaches Schwarzbier!
Tried
on 16 Jan 2014
at 13:39
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft at Pegasus. Dark maroon color, small tan head. Aroma of coffee grounds. Taste is plain roasted malts. Simple.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2013
at 02:16
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle. Dark brown colour with average, frothy, diminishing, minimally lacing, beige head. Dark malty aroma, a touch of roast and grass, hints of chocolate. Taste is minimally sweet dark malty, a touch of milk chocolate and cappuccino, minimally roasty and bitter hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2013
at 13:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml Bottle: best before the end of Oct 2012, whoops. Poured into a Westvleteren chalice on 7th Dec 2012, a bit late! Looked impressive: lovely dark body with a deep tan head of foam (well for 60 seconds anyway). Initial aroma leans towards a Stout maltiness smell and mild chocolate notes waft through the air: good for a Black Lager. The taste is also Stoutish, but with the lager crispness reminding you this isn’t at ale based beer. Those aforementioned chocolate notes can be found it the taste as well as in the nose along with slightly burnt caramel flavour. A lot better than I thought it would be and could well be my highest scoring beer of this style so far.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2012
at 05:38
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Black colour, small stable light brown head. Good fruity flavour, quite roasted.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2012
at 07:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle) Appears black, but is very dark ruby, with a short lived beige head. Aroma is hints of chocolate and raisins. Medium body and medium carbonation. Flavour is simple and light starting with some dark roast malt and finishing with some bitterness. It’s an easy drinking dark beer; pleasant enough but disappointing - deserving of faint praise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2012
at 05:06
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 6
This beer is a bit like a St Kilda grand final appearance. Quite engaging, but with a weak ending. I get lots of malt on the nose, but not a lot else. There’s chocolate and coffee in the taste and it’s nice over the front of the tongue, but that there’s that dissatisfying watery finish.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2012
at 23:49
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at a Kiwi bar in Steglitz. Blackish brown with a short lived cream head. Aroma is dark caramel. Flavour is sweetish malt with a lot of chocolate in the background.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2012
at 10:20