DAB Original - Dortmunder Actien Brauerei / DAB

Kartoffeln

Ontario (Canada)

3.33/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

A: Golden yellow with a fizzy white head. Dissipates to a patchy ring with nearly no lacing.

S: Grassy hops and sweet grain with mineral undertones.

T: Light bready malts dominate the taste which is rounded out by light grassy hops and chalky mineral flavours.

M: Crisply carbonated with a light body and short, dry finish.

D: The light flavour and body make it quite drinkable if unremarkable.

Serving type: can

03-16-2011 20:28:45 | More by Kartoffeln

richkrull

Wisconsin

3.03/5  rDev -7.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Tried this one at The Road House in Deerfield, WI.

I didn't realize it was in a green bottle when I first saw it in the cooler. Oh well. It of course had a hint of a skunky smell and flavor that I'm not a fan of. Other than that, it tasted a lot like an AAL. Some wheat or grain flavor with a bit of malt. Very light-bodied beer and relatively drinkable.

Serving type: bottle

03-16-2011 20:00:39 | More by richkrull

Amalak

New York

3.6/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

I had out of a 12 ounce can.

A. American macro look with its straw yellow and big white head. Some lacing.

S. Mild wheatish scent, not much there.

T. Pleasantly surprised that it was more of a crisp pilsner taste than an American macro. It has a decent carbonation to it. Lite but has a flavor to it, perfect for consumption.

Serving type: can

03-01-2011 04:39:40 | More by Amalak

ktrillionaire

Florida

3.65/5  rDev +11.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

A - It looks like all the other German lagers: gold, fizzy small head, no lace. Perhaps it is a nicer shade of gold.

S - Again, not much exceptional. Mostly minerality and some grassiness. As it airs out, I start to pick up on sugar cookies.

T - Bready malt flavor, finishes sweet. Minerality is present throughout, and fuses with a grassy and lemon-lime bitterness on the end. I like this better than most German lagers.

M/D - Pretty nice feel, just fizzy and beery. Drinks real easy.

Serving type: can

02-25-2011 07:26:15 | More by ktrillionaire

AlCaponeJunior

Texas

3.1/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Straw colored and clear with a good head that lasted quite a while and left nice lacing.

It's got a lightly grainy smell, slightly bready.

Tastes of bready biscuit malts, plenty of lemony citrus, and a lightly earthy flavor.

Feels light bodied and well carbonated. Fine for the style.

Drinks average. It's not a bad beer but neither does it particularly stand out.

Serving type: can

02-09-2011 02:01:46 | More by AlCaponeJunior

MoreThanWine

Massachusetts

3/5  rDev -8.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Poured a 2" head which dissipated to an irregular trace. Golden yellow color. Smell and taste of grain, mild malt (a basic lager, almost mistakable for an American Adjunt Lager). The only really distinguishing aspect to me is a little saltiness, which actually reminds me a little of Lobster Lover's Beer out of Eastern Europe. In fact I had DAB with a shrimp supper and it matched nicely.

Serving type: bottle

02-05-2011 12:32:50 | More by MoreThanWine

sixerofelixir

Ohio

3.48/5  rDev +6.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

330 ml green bottle (11.2 oz)

Pours an ultra-clear light golden-yellow. A white head soon turns into a slightly sticky ring. Virtually no carbonation seen. Smell is minerally biscuit, with a touch of lemon grass. Taste is crisp and mouthfeel is fluid.. slick, in fact. Something about this brew seems a bit odd, but it is tasty enough. Light biscuit combined with a forward sweet hop feel. Drinkability suitable. An OK beer.

Serving type: bottle

01-24-2011 03:36:18 | More by sixerofelixir

samie85

Illinois

3.2/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

A-Pours a very clear golden straw color with two fingers of white head.

S-Smells of sweet grain with a subtle huskiness and hints of spicy, herbal hop nose.

T-Sweet grain with some green apple noted and finishes with a light crisp, hop bitterness.

M-Light bodied with high carbonation and a dry finish.

D-Very drinkable, but very similar to quite a few beers that I've had before.

Serving type: can

01-24-2011 01:26:13 | More by samie85

Welsman

Pennsylvania

3.8/5  rDev +16.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

Stumbled on this beer at a local bar, in a
good beer wasteland, aka Delaware County PA.

Pours very clear, yellow to green hue.
Very smooth and drinkable, taste is well balanced, typical German lager.

Had a nice delciate hop finish, a bit of a
bite, i like this more than a beer such as
Spaten Lager, or Hoffbrau house.

Served on tap in 20oz dab mug. 2.75$!!

Serving type: on-tap

01-18-2011 21:23:12 | More by Welsman

OneDropSoup

Pennsylvania

2.9/5  rDev -11.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Green bottle (uh-oh) into a pilsner: Transparent golden-yellow, not unlike ginger ale, with light, slow nucleation. 4 fingers of bright white, foamy head that drops to a thick coating & leaves a few rings of lacing.

Smells of dryish white grape juice, light cereal grain, slight lemon candy, & even slighter aspiring. Restrained smell, overall.

Flavor toggles between sweet, light cereal, & that chalky aspirin taste - I thought it may have been my imagination, but there it is in the taste, too, & even more prominent. Finish is nice & crisp, with some bitterness in the aftertaste, almost saving the score. A little pepper shows up?

Effervescent, crisp, ends with a snap. Actually, the mouthfeel is the strongpoint so far, but there's just a tiny chalkiness there as well. Still good here, though.

Light, feels good, may be refreshing in the right context, but that odd chalky aspiring character quality gets to be a drag, turning a decent if pretty mundane beer a little unpleasant.

Serving type: bottle

01-17-2011 02:01:40 | More by OneDropSoup

jhtipton

Spain

3.48/5  rDev +6.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Poured a 330 ml bottle into my pilsner glass. Nice skunky eurolager smell. Better than most eurolagers.Plenty of bubbles and foam. Anice full white foam with some peaks and valleys. Mild lacing. The carbonation lasts for a while. Malty with some bitterness, in a good way. Light golden and quite clear. Bubbles never stopped. Light bodied and refreshing. I could enjoy as a session in the spring or summer in Spain, but I'll have to wait a bit. Cheers.

Serving type: bottle

01-14-2011 16:11:07 | More by jhtipton

cudmud

Illinois

3.48/5  rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

Appearance: Pours with a nice bright white rocky head with plenty of retention. The foam porduces plenty of lace. An extremely clear beer.

Smell: This brew has a nice malt smell and is backed by a low level of hops.

Taste: Light malt and hop flavor with a nice bitter aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Medium body and a pleasant level of carbonation.

Drinkability: A good light body beer for quenching thirst.

Serving type: bottle

01-06-2011 01:35:24 | More by cudmud

chicagoabbot

Illinois

3.78/5  rDev +15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

16 oz can shared with a friend while brewing as he had bought some and I had never tried it and saw it in his fridge. Pale and clear with a fluffy head that dies pretty fast. Very clean beer, perfectly drinkable. Definitely not an in your face ultra-charactered beer, this isn't some hop monster, just a smooth classic example of its style that would make an easy session lager.

Serving type: can

12-05-2010 07:04:20 | More by chicagoabbot

Reagan1984

Massachusetts

4.15/5  rDev +26.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

O.K., so I continue to explore different styles of beer and sought this out so that I could try a Dortmunder/Export. I like it.

Pours with a fluffy white head that has nice structure but does quickly fade to a thin film of foam. Spotty lacing left behind. Bright brass colored with perfect clarity. A decent amount of visible carbonation.

Aroma is doughy, slightly sweet and full of green grass. Actually pretty nice.

A pilsner with less spice and more bread tones? That's my initial reaction. I like this. Very bready/biscuity with a slight undercooked quality to it. The grassy notes are still there. Finish is quite dry and crisp. Wondering at this point why this gets a "C+" type rating. I think it's because the style itself is more subdued.

Crisp, clean, dry and fresh in your mouth.

Very drinkable and certainly a session candidate.

Well done. Stay tuned for a high + rdev

Serving type: can

12-04-2010 20:18:21 | More by Reagan1984

Yoonisaykul

Quebec (Canada)

3.03/5  rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Bought this about half a dozen times from the SAQ. Don't know much about it though. and haven't tried it in about a year.

Poured into Ikea 17278

A- Very nice, light, clear gold. Fluffy, creamy even, white head. Okay retention but it might be better if my glass was ''beer clean''

S- Sweet grain which kind of reminds me of pomegranate for some reason. I don't think many others will smell this, but that's what I'm getting right now. Warming up brings some molasses and brewer's yeast.

T- Cracker grain. A lot easier to taste the hops after a few sips. They went from subdued, to leading the flavor. The whole is a bit metallic and you can taste the water without exactly making it watery.

M- Nice smooth mouthfeel. Medium carbonation. Pretty astringent.

D- Good. Pretty clean drinking, but the astrigency in the end kind of threw me off.

It's a good beer but I'd opt for something with some more/tastier flavour when reaching for this type of canned euro lager.

Serving type: can

11-29-2010 22:37:27 | More by Yoonisaykul

mikeg67

New Jersey

3.4/5  rDev +4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

330 ml bottle. Pours golden with a lasting white head and lively carbonation. Aroma is of grassy hops and sweet, bready malt. Light, creamy body. Nice balance of grassy, floral hops, biscuit malt and grain fill the mouth. Nice, long hoppy finish. Worth to try brew.

Serving type: bottle

11-22-2010 22:24:09 | More by mikeg67

Sachsenfreude

Germany

3.2/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

Not too much I can say of this beer, nothing special but not bad. I've never been a fan of the bottled versions but on tap or cask, it is decent. Typical white head and yellow body. Pilsner like quality with less advanced hops. Some malts in the finish but they are loose and watery. The quality has definatly suffered over the years but still not awful. If not from the bottle, this is a drinkable brew, just a cheap version of the syle. There's a time and a place for beer like this and that's with friends or at a party. It serves it's purpose well, just don't pay too much for it.

Serving type: cask

11-12-2010 04:49:59 | More by Sachsenfreude

A380

Manitoba (Canada)

2.68/5  rDev -18%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours a nice gold with a nice fine white head. Perfect Carbonation! Smells like nice hops and grains. Tastes slightly metallic :( and slightly watery too. Slight bitterness that does not really seem pleasant, that lingers for a lifetime on the tongue and after a while you wish it would go away. At a bar i work at everyone thinks this is an amazing brew.... i know.. its kinda sad. but i guess its ok if there isnt any better beer available.

Serving type: can

11-11-2010 07:24:24 | More by A380

thecarster1

Pennsylvania

2.58/5  rDev -21.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

a- can poured into a tasting pint, clear bright yellow coloring, one fingers worth of head that fades semi quickly leaving decent lacing.

s- corny, grainy, slightly sweet - not the best start.

t- eachos the nose, the finish is dry, i'm getting a slightly metallic note - also got this note from a bottle so i know it wasn't from the can. there are a kiss of hop bitterness in the finish, but thats about the only redeeming quality here.

m- light in the mouth.

d- there isn't anything special here, glad to have tried it, but if i want a solid dortmunder i'll go for a gl dortmunder gold.

Serving type: can

11-04-2010 16:50:52 | More by thecarster1

JohnGalt1

Idaho

3.5/5  rDev +7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Stopped in at Brewforia tonight on the way home from work... the wife set my budget pretty low, so I was looking for something that I had not tried before... 500ml can piqued my interest.

Poured into my SN XXX goblet.. 1" rocky white head... the brew is crystal clear golden.

Nose shows unmistakable pils malt.... very lite noble hop presence.

Flavor is pretty expected... good malt balance with just enough bitterness... the hops add a mild grassy component... finishes with a nice bready maltiness that never turns sweet... A bit of a minerally not shows with alot of warmth.

Body is a surprising medium... carbonation is medium too with just enough bubble to make me want another sip.

all 3.5's

Edit: Wow.... looking at the reviews, I'm glad I got this from a can.... I appreciate most German lagers and this was pretty darn good... it lacked a "fresh" edge to it... but it wasn't stale by any stretch.

Serving type: can

10-07-2010 07:42:30 | More by JohnGalt1

philbertk

Washington

2.58/5  rDev -21.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Dortmunder-Radeburger Gruppe, Germany--DAB Dortmunder Original. 5.00% ABV. 20 IBU's? 5 oz. Taste @ Fremont Oktoberfest 9/24/2010. Rich mild lace white head. Clear bright thin straw yellow color. Subdued hop delicate malt front. Mild bodied clean smooth pale lager all malt body. Clean somewhat bland end. (2.25 / 5.0)

Serving type: on-tap

10-03-2010 19:33:59 | More by philbertk

Duff27

Illinois

2.73/5  rDev -16.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

A- Pours a clear golden. Short-lived, off white, one-fingered head. No lacing.

S- Not getting much from the smell. Someone wrote Corn Flakes...we'll go with that.

T- Crisp. Grassy. Distinct bitterness, cousins with the pilsner style.

M- Creamy, biting carbonation.

D/O- If one were to really like this guy, one could drink many. One would be happy. I am not the one. If I were to keep within the style, I'd reach for a Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold or Two Brothers Dog Days. Maybe I'm just partial to the Midwest of America, who knows.

Serving type: bottle

08-20-2010 02:21:30 | More by Duff27

Pardishcreel

California

3.73/5  rDev +14.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Pours a golden brown with some decent head that quickly dissipates into a think layer of bubbles with a high carbonation.

smells refreshing and crisp the smell is that of plant life the grains are very prevalent in the smell.

The taste is refreshing with a slight bitter edge, crisp and clean. This is what you would expect from a decent lighter lager. It doesn't do anything special to set it apart, but its still a good lager.

This is a refreshing beer bordering on to light even making its drinkability high. I could drink this all night.

Serving type: bottle

08-17-2010 04:02:19 | More by Pardishcreel

treque

Mexico

3.33/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

A: Amber-looking light tone, translucent to light. Generates a foam plenty of bubble with a mean retention, carbonation is light
constant and small bubble, residually also within the average.

S: With a light aroma of malt and hops.

T: In its taste is slightly sweet notes perceive
early bitternes prone to end, with a touch of bread, its end is
medium bitterness and dry.

Refreshing beer with a light body

Serving type: bottle

08-11-2010 23:51:13 | More by treque

tbeckett

Ontario (Canada)

2.98/5  rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4

A - Hard pour into a pint glass leaves a loose, white, one finger head. Colour is golden yellow, slightly darker than a straw colour. Heavy carbonation. Slight amount of lacing. Heads disappears in a few minutes. Not a horrible lookin' lager.

S - Smells slightly sweet and grainy. No hops to speak of in the aroma.

T - Sort of sweet and grainy again. Very light bitterness in the finish but aside from that not a whole lot of flavour to speak of. Clean drinking though, nothing offensive.

M - Heavy carbonation again. Dry.

D - Decent session beer if you like this style. You could drink alot of it if you could find a reason to.

Serving type: can

08-01-2010 00:37:32 | More by tbeckett