Dreher Bak
Dreher Brewery

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Dreher Brewery
 
Hungary
Style:
Bock
Ranked #54
ABV:
7.3%
Score:
84
Ranked #22,266
Avg:
3.71 | pDev: 12.4%
Reviews:
34
Ratings:
57
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 01, 2023
Added:
Apr 15, 2003
Wants:
  7
Gots:
  7
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Reviewed by Gatch from Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev +1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
On draft at a Hungarian restaurant in Budapest. Freshly tapped keg! Waiter was nice enough to tell me to not get a half liter until they put the new keg on. Fresh is best. Definitely an improvement on the light lager with more depth and flavor. Sweet, chocolate, roasted malt with some char and smoke. Quite tasty. Would order again but wouldn’t seek out.
Sep 01, 2023
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Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington

3.76/5  rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from 500mL can into a tall kitchen glass. Best by 7/8/23. The can says "with two kinds of malt".

Appearance: very dark-brown amber hue with a totally clear body and two fingers of pillowy tan foam atop. There's a nice lace left on the glass as the head slowly dissipates -- I think it's great!

Smell: sweet, malty, and rather smoky. It feels maybe a little messy to me, but it's still nice.

Taste: bready and caramelly malt up front, but almost a little bit watered-down in the middle; it finishes off with a dusty, musty, date-and-tobacco flavor that I really like. So -- it has some mediocre qualities as well as good ones.

Mouthfeel: honestly rather on the thin side for a bock. Not terrible, but I'd love a bit more body/creaminess.

Overall: this is a decent and interesting beer. I like the light smokiness and the date/tobacco elements of the flavor.
Sep 14, 2022
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Rated by Gex from Kyrgyzstan

3.37/5  rDev -9.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Belvárosi Disznótoros, Budapest

Liquefied brown bread.

Gex.
Jun 20, 2022
 
Rated: 3 by Enomas from Portugal

Aug 04, 2021
 
Rated: 3.79 by Catalinmunteanu from Romania

May 31, 2021
 
Rated: 3.75 by paulish from New York

Sep 02, 2019
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Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts

4.13/5  rDev +11.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Had on tap. Pours clear, dark brown in color with 1/2 inch head. Taste is cola and brown sugar. Medium bodied and carbonation, sweet and roasty. One of the better dark beers I have had on this trip.
Jul 31, 2019
 
Rated: 4.28 by RootDown from Ohio

Jun 26, 2018
 
Rated: 3.69 by mishi_d from Romania

Jun 11, 2018
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Reviewed by monkist from Hungary

4.24/5  rDev +14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
This beer is funny: it isn't like a bock - or at least it isn't similar to the kind of bocks (bock, double bock or festbock) that I tried in Austria. It is much more like an Imperial Stout or a Baltic porter with much viscosity, breadiness and malts and comes with 7.3 ABV, all good! I think it should only be revised if this is really supposed to be a real bock or if it is just the name.
Nevertheless, this is perhaps THE best commercial beer made in Hungary now! A good one indeed!
May 29, 2018
 
Rated: 4.34 by malcarter from Connecticut

Oct 17, 2017
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Reviewed by rudzud from Massachusetts

3.52/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Someone brought one to a party. Really cool.

A - Poured into a snifter a clear dark brown with a thin mocha head That fades to leave a light halo.

S - Aromas of sweet malts little bit of candy sugars. Little bit of caramel and faint raisins.

T - Taste is similar to the nose nice sweetness, good malts, little roast. Creamy caramel, solid light almost chocolate. Finish is lightly cardboard forward.

M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated little thin.

O - Overall this was a rather solid bock. Always fun to try new stuff.

Serving Type: can
Sep 30, 2017
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Reviewed by sirmartinez from Hungary

3.81/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Hungarian commercial dark beer, it's widely available and relatively cheap around here. The new bottles don't look nearly as pretty as the old ones, the 7.30% ABV is indicated in small letters on the back, proving that a good beer doesn't have to display it's high ABV in massive letters, as most macrobreweries do.
Pours like your average dark beer, but the unexpectedly strong smell feels like a headbutt, not sure if good or bad. Just like the smell, the taste is thick and powerful, dominated by sweet roasted malts, with occasional strong bitterness. Dark chocolate-like aroma, pairs great with the intensity of this beer. In fact, so thick it fills up the belly too. My only problem is it's unbalancedness.
Overall, a very manly beer, a pretty good commercial bock from a country that has almost no brewing culture. Fun fact: "bock" sounds like "bak" in Hungarian, which means ram. Fitting!
Apr 11, 2017
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

2.97/5  rDev -19.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Reviewed from notes.

On-draught into a .5L glass in Budapest.

No bubble show forms as it's poured.

HEAD: ~4cm wide. Khaki colour. Nice creaminess and thickness. Good consistency. Soft and supple. Good complexion. Pretty good (6-7 minute) retention. Light inconsistent lacing sticks to the sides of the glass as it recedes.

BODY: Dark cola black. Opaque. No yeast or sediment is visible within.

Appears adequately carbonated. Not a unique or special appearance for the style, but generally appealing.

AROMA: Dark malts, cream, black malts, and faint herbal hops. So light in terms of intensity it's hard to identify anything. I detect no yeast character, alcohol, or off-notes. Hop aromatics are quite light and vague.

A pleasant albeit reticent aroma.

TASTE: Dark malts, cream, black malts, caramel, sassafras, herbal hop notes, rooty earthiness, and some mild malt sweetness.

I find no yeast character, overt alcohol, or off-flavours.

Simply built but cohesive. Not all that subtle, nuanced, or intricate, but it's passable. Average duration, depth, and intensity of flavour. I do like it for what it is.

TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, soft, creamy, a bit silky, medium-bodied, fairly thick, and decently carbonated. Suits the taste okay.

Not gushed, hot, oily, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy.

OVERALL: Drinkable but largely unremarkable. It's nice for a mass-produced dark beer, and I'm glad this is a standard go-to in Hungary, but I wouldn't bother with it again, nor would I recommend it to friends. Very average.

High C (2.97) / AVERAGE
Aug 08, 2016
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Rated by MariaJ

4.5/5  rDev +21.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Very good taste and look
Apr 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.72 by tunemx from Hungary

Feb 22, 2015
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Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania

3.5/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Dark brown color with beige head. Smells like dark malts and light roasted coffee. Taste follows with some roasty flavors, not too bitter but also no sweetness. Very balanced overall and easy drinkable. Not bad for a Hungarian macro lager.
Dec 10, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by hansavijaticar from Croatia (Hrvatska)

Oct 19, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by poskok from Croatia (Hrvatska)

Oct 19, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Jerseyislandbeer from Jersey

Aug 03, 2014
Dreher Bak from Dreher Brewery
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 57 ratings