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Dunkels
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant
- From:
- Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant
- United States
- Style:
- Munich Dunkel
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 13.33%
- Reviews:
- 34
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 26, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 15, 2002
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
No description / notes.
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Ratings by UncleJimbo:
Reviewed by UncleJimbo from Massachusetts
3.71/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.71/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Sampled on tap at the Las Vegas brewpub.
This lager poured a clear (though unfiltered),dark, brown-amber color with tan foam that settled. The smell was malty with a bit of caramel. The taste was malty with some caramel and a very light sweetness. Other flavors included some yeast and a low hop bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel was clean, and very smooth and creamy with medium body and good carbonation. This was an enjoyable dunkel.
Mar 10, 2004This lager poured a clear (though unfiltered),dark, brown-amber color with tan foam that settled. The smell was malty with a bit of caramel. The taste was malty with some caramel and a very light sweetness. Other flavors included some yeast and a low hop bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel was clean, and very smooth and creamy with medium body and good carbonation. This was an enjoyable dunkel.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by JayQue from Virginia
4/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Enjoyed a 21 ounce glass full at Gordon Biersch, Virginia Beach. They give their beers different names. This one was called Klassibier at 5.7 .abv vice 5.4 as it says here. It is a Gordon Biersch Dunkle Lager a ll the same. Pours a fairly clear light brown color with reddish highlights. Nice size light tan head with good retention and plenty of filmy lacing on the big Weizen glass. Rich aroma of bready malt with hints of molasses, caramel and brown sugar coming through. Mouthfeel is crisp and rich, for a lager. Nice and smooth, with a light touch of bitterness in the finish. Very enjoyable, would have liked it better if it wasn't served ice cold.
Mar 19, 2018Reviewed by avwrite from California
3.94/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A - Nice caramel darkness color. Clear.
S - Scents of honey and sweetness. Nice to the nose.
T - Unexpectedly good. Definitely got that honey flavor in there, and it was enjoyable. Some molasses too.
M - An easy beer going down.
O - I enjoyed this beer and would probably get another bottle.
Jul 21, 2014S - Scents of honey and sweetness. Nice to the nose.
T - Unexpectedly good. Definitely got that honey flavor in there, and it was enjoyable. Some molasses too.
M - An easy beer going down.
O - I enjoyed this beer and would probably get another bottle.
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.19/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
3.19/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Poured from bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a very light brown/dark copper color with an amazingly huge billowy off white head. The head has a great level of retention, slowly fading to leave a lighter level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – A big caramel and brown sugar aroma are the bulk of the smell. These are mixed with some nice roasted malt and toasted aromas as well as a little bit of a nutty smell. Rounding out all these is a very light earthy and herbal hop as well, creating a very pleasant aroma overall.
Taste – The taste begins with a sweet brown sugar and caramel flavor with a little bit of a toasted malt and a light grainy taste. The grain and malt are very light, largely being dominated by the sweeter flavors of the brew, which intensify even more after the initial taste with some other sweet flavors of a cola and molasses nature coming to the tongue. A little bit of a nut flavor develops right after the initial taste, with it then fading away toward the end due to the advent of the cola and molasses. Just a hint of herb is mixed into the taste leaving one with a very sweet, lightly roasted, and thin flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is quite thin with a carbonation level that is high. A thicker body would have certainly been better for accentuating the roasted and nut flavors of the brew and would have made it a bit less cloying.
Overall – A little too sweet in darker sugar flavors with not quite enough malt and roast to really support the sweet. A bit sweetly unbalanced.
Jun 24, 2014Appearance – The beer pours a very light brown/dark copper color with an amazingly huge billowy off white head. The head has a great level of retention, slowly fading to leave a lighter level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – A big caramel and brown sugar aroma are the bulk of the smell. These are mixed with some nice roasted malt and toasted aromas as well as a little bit of a nutty smell. Rounding out all these is a very light earthy and herbal hop as well, creating a very pleasant aroma overall.
Taste – The taste begins with a sweet brown sugar and caramel flavor with a little bit of a toasted malt and a light grainy taste. The grain and malt are very light, largely being dominated by the sweeter flavors of the brew, which intensify even more after the initial taste with some other sweet flavors of a cola and molasses nature coming to the tongue. A little bit of a nut flavor develops right after the initial taste, with it then fading away toward the end due to the advent of the cola and molasses. Just a hint of herb is mixed into the taste leaving one with a very sweet, lightly roasted, and thin flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is quite thin with a carbonation level that is high. A thicker body would have certainly been better for accentuating the roasted and nut flavors of the brew and would have made it a bit less cloying.
Overall – A little too sweet in darker sugar flavors with not quite enough malt and roast to really support the sweet. A bit sweetly unbalanced.
Dunkels from Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
51 ratings
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