Besting most nebulous dark lagers with its upfront hop-charred coffee roast and nut-seared dark chocolate bittering, medium-full-bodied recalls a mocha stout given fizzy clean-watered effervescence.
ARMADA EDGE OF DARKNESS DARK LAGER
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WARSTEINER DUNKEL
Soft creaminess coats understated caramelized barley-chestnut roast, dewy peat mossing and mild toffee sweetness leading to blanched fig-dried cocoa stead. Light hop spicing tingles tongue. Fine middle-of-the-roader.
VAULT TIME VALUE MUNICH STYLE DUNKEL LAGER
Dewy fungi earthiness and funky cellar musk contrast sweetly breaded Vienna malting as decocted cocoa-dried fig souring emerges.
OEC COOLSHIP LAGER BLACK
Dry dark lager with dark-roast barley and dark-roast chocolate and earth-scorched Noble hops given Czech lager yeast base. Beneath the surface, sharp walnut, Brazil nut and cola nut respite snags smoky rye enticement and black coffee smudge.
RETURN SATIN JACKET CZECH DARK LAGER
Dry floor-malted grain musk receives phenol hop astringency disrupting black honeyed buckwheat treacle, burnt coffee murk and pine nutty cola dirge.
GEARBLOCK SPIRIT PIGEON
On tap at Plank Pizza, locally acclaimed dark lager retains debittered black malting and nutty dark-roast hop char, picking up dry coffee-stained espresso tones and tarry residue.
ARMADA SORCERER’S TEMPLE DUNKEL LAGER
Frothy dark cocoa-powdered chocolate roast lightly tethered to dewy salted caramelization and mild cola-hazelnut-chestnut snips. Betters less mocha-induced American dunkels though many German originals have richer body and compare favorably.
ROSS VELERO NEGRO MEXICAN-STYLE DARK ALE
Roasted cocoa seeds given slightest sea-salted lime adjunct as dry grained legume nuttiness and dewy peat come aboard for easygoing Mexican-styled dark lager.
JACK’S ABBY RED TAPE AMBER LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, understated Bavarian dark lager scours cereal grained barley roast with lightly spiced plum-prune conflux and mild leafy hop astringency for soft-toned dunkel-styled moderation.
CANTINA CANTINA TRIXIE BROWN LAGERBIER
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, Czech-styled brown lager goes past simple brown tea-derived dark beer descriptive as sweet chestnut roast plus black cherry and grape fruiting enhance mildly creamed cocoa-dried peated malt styling.
SONDERKLASSE LEIPZIP MUNICH DUNKEL
Excellent soft-toned German marzen retains frothily creamed head as molasses-breaded fig, plum and date influence picks up mellow chestnut, almond and pecan illusions as well as spiced toffee sweetness in dewy peat setting. Subtle splendor.
BOLERO SNORT BYK CZECH DARK LAGER
Soft-toned honeyed rye buttering, chestnut-roasted waddle seed nuttiness and wavered coffee tones seep into subtle molasses-nipped dried fruiting. Mild cocoa-dried Vienna malting caresses dewy finish.
