DAB Dark Beer
Dortmunder Actien Brauerei / DAB

DAB Dark BeerDAB Dark Beer
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From:
Dortmunder Actien Brauerei / DAB
 
Germany
Style:
European Dark Lager
Ranked #54
ABV:
5%
Score:
78
Ranked #26,922
Avg:
3.37 | pDev: 16.32%
Reviews:
42
Ratings:
95
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 25, 2023
Added:
Jun 04, 2003
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  14
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.49/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500ml can - nice to see more dark beers from Germany's more prominent brewers make it this way. The label proclaims 'draft quality' - how so, given that I detect no supporting evidence as such?

This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with three pudgy fingers of puffy, bubbly, and weakly foamy ecru head, which leaves some stellar cobwebbed lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells quite lightly of roasted pale and caramel malt, faint muddled dark fruit, a bit of dry cocoa powder, and mild leafy, grassy, and weedy hops - did I mention it was light? The taste is more tell-tale - bready caramel malt, toasted wheat crackers, wet char, bittersweet chocolate, still well understated dark orchard fruit, and typically restrained leafy, earthy noble hops.

The bubbles are pretty low-key in their quotidian fizziness, the body an adequate medium weight for the style, and plainly smooth, a burgeoning biscuity essence steering things slowly in the other direction. It finishes a twinge off-dry, the cocoa, soaked bread, and morning after firepit notes landing on my palate just so.

A pleasant enough dark German lager, the roasted character kept mostly to a minimum, with plenty of other black lager subtleties to render things drinkable and enjoyable for at least a few rounds, one would think - but first, bring on the scarred, spartan wood tables, so that we might imbibe this one properly!
Jul 29, 2014
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4.49 by MakerMachiav from England

Aug 25, 2023
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Reviewed by AnyBeerULike from Canada (ON)

3.69/5  rDev +9.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a clwar brown/chocolate color. Beige, fluffy head formation with mild retention. Caramel, malt on the nose, taste follows. Slight bitterness to round it up. Thin mouthfeel. Not a bad one, for a raisonable price.
Mar 26, 2023
 
Rated: 3.23 by misteil from Ireland

Oct 27, 2022
 
Rated: 3.62 by Oleg85 from Russian Federation

Aug 24, 2022
 
 
Rated: 3.48 by paulish from New York

Feb 03, 2022
 
Rated: 3 by boszormeny from Canada (ON)

Jun 12, 2021
 
Rated: 2.91 by Isaac_L95 from Canada (ON)

Mar 31, 2021
 
Rated: 3.73 by Giantspace from Pennsylvania

Jul 19, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by Surf_rock from Ukraine

Jul 18, 2020
 
Rated: 3.77 by smi69 from New York

Jun 30, 2020
 
Rated: 3.5 by GingerFinn from Canada (ON)

Jan 05, 2020
 
Rated: 3.45 by matt_hill from Canada (ON)

Sep 24, 2019
 
Rated: 3.01 by Baviera from Belarus

Jun 14, 2019
 
Rated: 2.75 by s4s from Puerto Rico

Apr 02, 2019
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Reviewed by RacerX5k from Pennsylvania

3.62/5  rDev +7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
You know, this is actually very good. I'm just rating to beer, not style. Yes I am familiar with just about every style of beer known to man, this one a dark, Euro lager, huh. Whatever. It's an fucking beer, and a pretty damn good one.

Dark, almost black with an very nice frothy, fresh, head. It's different colorization then what you would think. Smells and tastes chocolate, coffee, yeast, bread, malts. Mild puckering there must be hops somewhere. Brewed in the German purity law I hope? please don't lie about that. Yes it followed an 16 oz Arrogant Bastard, then an 16 oz DFH 90 minute, so to hold up to that without boring me did pretty well.
Oct 01, 2018
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Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)

3.14/5  rDev -6.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Can...pours a clear col color beer with a small tan tight-pored cap...aromas are front...light sweetness roasted malts, light grassiness. Flavor is smooth and pleasing even if uneventful...decent roast malt in front, malt forward, noble hops in the background...verges on sweet bit eh finish is long and smooth with chocolate sweetness at the end...decent enough dunkel for a commercial brewer.
Sep 05, 2018
 
Rated: 3.34 by The-Jolly-Imbiber from Antarctica

Aug 19, 2018
 
Rated: 3.42 by domnulboca from Romania

Feb 18, 2018
DAB Dark Beer from Dortmunder Actien Brauerei / DAB
Beer rating: 78 out of 100 with 95 ratings