Dunkles Lagerbier
Krug-Bräu

Dunkles LagerbierDunkles Lagerbier
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From:
Krug-Bräu
 
Germany
Style:
Munich Dunkel
Ranked #56
ABV:
5%
Score:
87
Ranked #17,228
Avg:
3.85 | pDev: 7.53%
Reviews:
10
Ratings:
20
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 08, 2023
Added:
Jan 19, 2006
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  2
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Rated: 3.95 by Latarnik from New Jersey

Dec 08, 2023
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England

3.69/5  rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
It is a very old school trad-lable, and today 15 years after the featured pic^ it has not changed at all. You will also see that the lable does not refer to 'Dunkles', simply lager. In fact dunkles is mentioned nowhere on the bottle; It'll be interesting to see how it pours...
Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
L- Dunkle indeed! A lovely deep chestnut brown. Pours clear with a rather shy partial cap of tan foam. ps@+10mins, I'm surprised to see that despite my latter it is forming some lacing on the way down.
S- Nicely roasty-toasty, though mild overall.
T- Roasty-toasty malts and into a dryer finish that mixes hops together with the 'carbonic' sense that soda water has, ie much dissolved CO2 making it's presence felt and tasted.
F- The hops + CO2 make it on the hoppier/dryer side and the high CO2 adds to that. ...
O- ... I have to remind myself again this is lager and not the ale which it seriously resembles. So I should think of it as a lager with a deeper+maltier roasty aspect to it. Perhaps in that respect it's a good lager for spring/autumn when it feels a bit chilly to be necking fridge cold refreshing lager. Pleasant enough but for me it might not be bringing enough that's that special to justify buying it as a specialist import in the UK.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the lables to see what I missed! Translated: 'Not so sweet, not so bitter'. Not much else of note...
5000ml bottle £2.40 BB: 26/07/2021 Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
May 21, 2021
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Reviewed by drmeto from Germany

3.92/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
L:
-pours a clear ruby-brown with a small to medium,foamy,offwhite head
-low to medium carbonation visible
S:
-malty,licquorice,spicy,light roast,brown sugar,nutty
T:
-follows the nose + cola
F:
-medium carbonation
-light to medium body
O:
Very unusually roasty for a Dunkel.This actually shares more characteristics with a Schwarzbier or Czech Tmavy from across the bavarian border.
I liked it a lot.
Oct 11, 2019
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Reviewed by Arjen from Netherlands

3.75/5  rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
50 cl botle from De Bierkoning @ home. Pours a clear deep dark brown colour and a small but dense light beige head with a bit retention. Aroma's of caramel, straw/grass, roasted malts. Retronasal follows this mostly. Flavour is light sweet, light roasted. Light bodied. Finishes with coffee notes, roasted, maybe a tad bit bitter. Nice and clean, and thirst quenching on a hot day like this.
Jul 24, 2019
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia

3.94/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From the bottle, it pours a nice clear coppery brown with a nice light tan/just off white head. In the nose, it is light and fresh with a touch of caramel. In the mouth, the caramel malts come through with a solid malt base.
Jun 18, 2019
 
Rated: 3.72 by der_meister from Ukraine

Jul 08, 2016
 
Rated: 3.44 by Robertas from Lithuania

Jun 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.43 by safaricook from Netherlands

May 14, 2016
 
Rated: 3.92 by Silke_Neryn from Sweden

Oct 15, 2015
 
Rated: 3.65 by dgilks from Australia

Jun 05, 2015
 
Rated: 4.53 by Irvinator from California

Feb 23, 2015
 
Rated: 3.98 by bmaggot from Lithuania

Jan 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by cbnz from Canada (BC)

Nov 30, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by herrburgess from South Carolina

May 28, 2013
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Reviewed by boddhitree from Germany

3.45/5  rDev -10.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
[I've had this beer before, but only at this one particular Italian restaurant in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt: La Traviata. The pasta is hand made fresh daily, and the pizza's are baked in wood-burning ovens. And, for as long as I've been in FfM, since 2008, they serve this beer on tap. I eat here only about twice a year, but not because I don't like the beer/food; rather, I rarely have time to eat anything at a sit-down place. I usually grab a Döner or a pizza at a couple of stand-up places to save time between my lessons, if I have any.]

I've never seen this beer anywhere else, so I thought I'd review it, though I've heard they have it on tap at Fichte Kränzi in Sachsenhausen, a Apfelweinlokal (or Äppelwoi - Äpfelwein - Äppelwein - Appelwein - Eppelwei) or Applewine restaurant, but I didn't see it when I was there because I go there only for the Apfelwein. Their website lists all the pubs/restaurants where it can be found in Germany.

Krug Bräu seems to be from a Kaff in a tiny town between Bamberg and Bayreuth: Waischenfeld, Ortsteil (village) Breitlesau in Franken. The Brewery-Inn also doubles as a dance hall that focuses on live rock bands.

Their website calls it a Dunkeles Lagerbier. 5% ABV, "a special lager beer, brewed with a particular/special mashing technique and different special malts. The recipe for success: the beer is brewed to a taste that not too sweet nor too bitter and tastes great to all guests from the North Sea to the south."

Color: dark amber, orange tints, signs of Melanoiden or Münchner malt.
Aroma: malty, sweet, typical German malty aroma for a Fränkisches beer.
Taste: malty sweet, slightly sour on the front of the tongue; bitter on the sides, slightly sweet - a definable Münchner malt addition, maybe some black malt, but overall, a huge typical Pilsen malt flavor, slightly dry finish of Pils yeast. I expected a little more sweetness after getting the aroma. Bitterness of hops comes through clear on 2nd 0.5L glass. It's not very different from the Fürst Wallerstein's Landsknecht-Bier.

A mix of Pils with a little sweet component of a Bayerisches Märzen. However, if you taste only from the front, you get too much sourness, so to enjoy this beer, put the glass on top of the front of tongue and wash it over the middle and back for the sweetness to register at all. That's also when you'll notice the hops. But why do I need to do this simply to enjoy this beer?
Feb 20, 2013
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Reviewed by jonb5 from England

3.58/5  rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Very dark amber colour, medium non tanned head, cloudy. Espresso aroma, slightly grassy. Tasted espresso, bourbon and malt. Medium body, smooth, medium carbonation. Not what I expected, from the label I thought I was buying a Helles lager. First sip was more like a Schwarzbier, it also had some Stout like characteristics, pleasant surprise.
Jul 26, 2012
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Reviewed by bark from Sweden

3.63/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
The colour is dark brown; the finger thick chocolate head sinks slowly leaving some lacing.

The smell is dry. Cocoa and yeasty cellar-notes. Some herbal hops. Light and smooth, reminding me of my visit to Franken earlier this autumn.

The taste is at first light and fresh. Then, some notes of lettuce emerge together with some earthy-yeasty flavours in the background. Light German hoppy notes, some bitterness and light body.

The carbonation is medium strong, lots of small bubbles. The liquid is smooth.

A highly enjoyable lager with lots of character.
Dec 10, 2011
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Reviewed by BayerischBier from Ohio

4.18/5  rDev +8.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 5
had in bottle, on tap, and directly from the brewer's tank ;-)

dark brown beer with malty taste and an additional aroma where you need a third sip to figure out what it is: might be some nutty or toffee... However, it makes you want to drink more of a solid 'Franconian Classic'.
Krug is well known in the upper bavarian region.

Mouthfeel is well balanced but medium body with a semi-dry finish.

drinkability is great. As for many franconian beers you need to have at least one before you can judge the beer!... And it's a beer you want to find in the US as a special experiences (6yrs and still searching)
Apr 04, 2010
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Reviewed by botham from New York

4.2/5  rDev +9.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
half liter on tap poured into a tall mug at fichte kränzi in sachsenhausen, frankfurt am main, germany. the listing on the menu called this brew 'Original Krug Breitenlesauer Landbier Dunkel'. pours caramel brown with amber highlights and a single finger of off white head that lests the duration of consumption (about 20 minutes).

aroma is of caramel malts, with notes of munich malts and a bit of toffee, with a nutty base. good mix of aromas here, providing a solid profile.

taste is of caramel malts as well, with a lightly earthy base and a note of toffee, mixed with the same nutty base from the aroma.

mouthfeel is medium bodied, with a semi-dry finish and lingering nutty flavors.

drinkability is good. this is a somewhat subtle brew that is complex enough to warrent a second or third round. great proportioning and a solid profile. prost!
Mar 26, 2008
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Reviewed by UncleJimbo from Massachusetts

4.33/5  rDev +12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Sampled on-tap at Fichte Kränzi in Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main), Germany. Listed as "Original Krug Breitenlesauer Landbier".

This Landbier dunkel lager poured a clear, deep red-brown color with creamy, light brown foam that persisted and clung to the glass a bit. The smell was nicely malty with a hint of tanginess, a touch of caramel, and a faint hint of yeast. The taste was richly malty with a bit of caramel and perhaps a touch of Munich malt, especially in the finish, but with only a kiss of sweetness. Mild to medium hoppiness. This beer had a kellerbier feel to it in the taste, though it appeared to be filtered. The mouthfeel was smooth yet crisp and dry with medium body and good carbonation. The hops and malt flavors lingered nicely in the aftertaste. This was a very nice beer, and I was glad to find this beer from the Bamberg region in Frankfurt.
Jan 19, 2006
Dunkles Lagerbier from Krug-Bräu
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 20 ratings