Black Bavarian
Sprecher Brewing Company in Glendale, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Schwarzbier / Black Lager Regular|
Score
7.05
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Our signature beer, Black Bavarian, is renowned for its drinkability. This light to medium-bodied Schwarzbier (black beer) features superb malt and hop complexity. Beneath the creamy tan head, within the lager’s smooth mouthfeel lie flavors and aromas suggesting dark roasted coffee, caramel and bittersweet chocolate. Masterful hopping makes Black Bavarian both lighter and drier than expected. It has a pleasingly long finish. The kind that lingers just enough between sips, the kind that makes this rich flavored brew so easy to drink.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thanks to CaptainCougar for this fine trade! Deep mahogany ringed with ruby at the edges which supports a creamy large mocha colored head. Coffee like bitterness at first which becomes more roasty as it passes the tongue. Just enough underlying sweetness to balance the bitter notes nicely. Refreshing and smooth. Very enjoyable.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2004
at 17:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Finally found this interesting lager. Pours dark but (barely) translucent red-brown with a thin light tan head. Very caramely and bready/yeasty aroma. Toasty, roasty flavor profile with caramels and breads mixing with a touch of dark chocolate. Very yeasty. A creamy lager reminiscent of bready maibocks.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2004
at 00:48
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft. Among the pale pilseners at the downtown Chicago Kristkindl market is a keg of pale pilsener's evil twin. Pours with a hearty brown head over a body that looks solid black in a plastic cup, then shows brown highlights as I drink it. Kind of a black bread smell that’s not as prominent as a stout. Definite dark roast malts against a German hop profile. Leaves a taste at the back of the palate where bitterness and astingency are detected. Roast coffee taste, perhaps a note of pear, subdued by its "clean" lager finish. Brings up a bit of a burnt toast taste toward the end that may not be to everyone's liking, but I like its complexity.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Dec 2003
at 07:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark brown colour with ruby highlights and a think light brown head. Nice powerful aroma of a crazy complxity: hops, grapes, roasted malt, yeast & bread. Light-bodied; Strong roasted malt flavours, hints of coffee with the yeastiness & slight sweetnesspicked up in the nose. Aftertaste bittered from the roasted malt & coffee flavour. Overall, an odd beer that turns out to be nicely complex, but still be on for the style! Definately one to try! I got this in a trade from CaptainCougar in sixteen ounce form. Thanks again Tom!
Tried
on 20 Sep 2003
at 01:51
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
I would have guessed this to be a stout or a porter, but a dark lager? Never. The head is tan and frothy, and the aroma is roasty and chocolately. The flavor is quite malty and complex, with intense roasted/smoke flavors, caramel, coffee, licorice, and some others I can't quite identify. If all schwarzbeirs were like this, I'd be trying them a lot more often.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2003
at 18:30