Wild Oats Series No. 10 - Dunkel Buck
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- From:
- Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Weizenbock
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.9 | pDev: 8.21%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 34
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 30, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 30, 2011
- Wants:
- 6
- Gots:
- 6
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
Beau’s “Dunkel Buck” is brewed in the Dunkel Weizenbock style – a strong, dark version of a traditional Bavarian wheat beer. This cloudy, dark and unfiltered wheat beer displays intriguing clove and banana aromas. The flavours follow, while adding in a chocolate and mocha undercurrent. The beer finishes dry with a slightly tart spiciness, and the alcohol is moderately warming.
12 IBU
12 IBU
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Reviewed by Sercoli from Canada (ON)
4.15/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Lovely beer. Dark amber color, medium thick pour, light carbonation, defintely taste the mocha/chocolate undercurrent, slightly seet, very tasty. If available year round I would buy on a regular basis. Recommended.
Nov 03, 2015
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.95/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Service: Bottle
Bottled on: May 15-2015
A:
Pours a hazy brownish copper with a nice three fingers of solid-looking beige head that evaporates to a little cap. Okay retention; bits of lacing. (3.75)
S:
Banana bread. Ripe bananas, lacquer, nuts, baking spices, brown sugar, leather, dough. (3.75)
T:
Rich and sweet. Similar to the nose; Nuts, bananas, bready malts and yeast, toasty, some hard water, spicy yeast flavors. (4)
M:
Medium carbonation with a really round, creamy feel and a medium+ body, slight alcoholic warmth in the finish (which is nice a quick/smooth), but very drinkable. (4.25)
O:
Good take on a Weizenbock.
It is a pretty nice looking beer in the glass and immediately hits you with a strong banana and clove character that is present throughout the beer. Tasty enough and good smell generally substantive in a way that German beers are. Could be a little less bananay, but otherwise good. Nice to have one of these that hasn't gone nuts on the ABV. Might have again, but if I had an option between this and something from Germany it would not be a question. (4)
Jul 02, 2015Bottled on: May 15-2015
A:
Pours a hazy brownish copper with a nice three fingers of solid-looking beige head that evaporates to a little cap. Okay retention; bits of lacing. (3.75)
S:
Banana bread. Ripe bananas, lacquer, nuts, baking spices, brown sugar, leather, dough. (3.75)
T:
Rich and sweet. Similar to the nose; Nuts, bananas, bready malts and yeast, toasty, some hard water, spicy yeast flavors. (4)
M:
Medium carbonation with a really round, creamy feel and a medium+ body, slight alcoholic warmth in the finish (which is nice a quick/smooth), but very drinkable. (4.25)
O:
Good take on a Weizenbock.
It is a pretty nice looking beer in the glass and immediately hits you with a strong banana and clove character that is present throughout the beer. Tasty enough and good smell generally substantive in a way that German beers are. Could be a little less bananay, but otherwise good. Nice to have one of these that hasn't gone nuts on the ABV. Might have again, but if I had an option between this and something from Germany it would not be a question. (4)
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
4.03/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.03/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
600 mL bottle picked up at the LCBO; served slightly chilled. The packaging date on this one's back label is illegible, so I'll have to glean that info from one of this bottle's batch-mates next time I'm shopping.
Pours a muddy brownish-amber hue with some rusty red tinges under the light, producing a modest-sized cap consisting of a light, creamy beige-coloured froth. It erodes away quite quickly, leaving behind a wispy film on the surface ringed by a thin, foamy collar. Not the most impressive-looking weizenbock, but the aroma gets things back on track right away with huge notes of overripe banana and bready, toasted wheat malt sweetness overlying some caramelized sugar and yeasty clove spice. A little bit nutty, too, with fruity hints of raisin, fig, and maybe a faint touch of milk chocolate.
Right off the bat, the flavour profile is very 'banana-forward' - specifically the ripe, spotted, getting-a-bit-mushy variety. Meanwhile, the wheaty, bready malts and light caramel notes integrate with the aforementioned flavour quite nicely, giving this brew a very enjoyable banana bread vibe. Some light, vaguely raisiny dark fruit flavours surface by mid-sip, with hints of clove spice, vanilla and toasted nuts rounding out the yeasty finish. Spicy, somewhat peppery aftertaste; the alcohol is detectable, but not a prominent feature. Medium-full in body, with moderate carbonation levels that prickle the palate evenly. This one has the same sort of soft, fulfilling, silky-smooth mouthfeel that all of the best German wheat beers possess, which is something that many North American brewers seem unable to manage consistently.
Final Grade: 4.03, a worthy A-. Dunkel Buck is not only one of Beau's' most highly-rated beers - it was also the first 'Wild Oats Series' beer to get into the LCBO, and I for one am glad to see it back. This is a very well-made wheat beer that is every bit as tasty as its German-made kin - which is an impressive feat, at least to me, because generally speaking I would take an imported German wheat beer over your typical domestic-made one any day of the week. Definitely worth a pick-up, though at its current price point ($8/per) I'll only do so sparingly.
Apr 27, 2015Pours a muddy brownish-amber hue with some rusty red tinges under the light, producing a modest-sized cap consisting of a light, creamy beige-coloured froth. It erodes away quite quickly, leaving behind a wispy film on the surface ringed by a thin, foamy collar. Not the most impressive-looking weizenbock, but the aroma gets things back on track right away with huge notes of overripe banana and bready, toasted wheat malt sweetness overlying some caramelized sugar and yeasty clove spice. A little bit nutty, too, with fruity hints of raisin, fig, and maybe a faint touch of milk chocolate.
Right off the bat, the flavour profile is very 'banana-forward' - specifically the ripe, spotted, getting-a-bit-mushy variety. Meanwhile, the wheaty, bready malts and light caramel notes integrate with the aforementioned flavour quite nicely, giving this brew a very enjoyable banana bread vibe. Some light, vaguely raisiny dark fruit flavours surface by mid-sip, with hints of clove spice, vanilla and toasted nuts rounding out the yeasty finish. Spicy, somewhat peppery aftertaste; the alcohol is detectable, but not a prominent feature. Medium-full in body, with moderate carbonation levels that prickle the palate evenly. This one has the same sort of soft, fulfilling, silky-smooth mouthfeel that all of the best German wheat beers possess, which is something that many North American brewers seem unable to manage consistently.
Final Grade: 4.03, a worthy A-. Dunkel Buck is not only one of Beau's' most highly-rated beers - it was also the first 'Wild Oats Series' beer to get into the LCBO, and I for one am glad to see it back. This is a very well-made wheat beer that is every bit as tasty as its German-made kin - which is an impressive feat, at least to me, because generally speaking I would take an imported German wheat beer over your typical domestic-made one any day of the week. Definitely worth a pick-up, though at its current price point ($8/per) I'll only do so sparingly.
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