Creepy Uncle Dunkel
Brass Monkey

 

Poured from a can at fridge temp. Pours a gorgeous dark brown with light tan head. The nose is plum, sweet toffee, and dark bread. Raspberry starts to appear as well. The taste follows the nose. Very malty. Figs, toffee, bread, and a slight smoky note. A slight hoppy bitterness on the back end. Mouthfeel is fairly light. Overall, a wonderful dunkel.

I really enjoy this beer. I enjoy the darker beers that are low in hops and this one ticks all the boxes!

The can is really nice looking too!

Pour gives a deep reddish brown the colour of old blood in urine. Crisp and clean and clear. Head swells initially, but fizzes into just fuzzy carpet pretty quickly. Light brownlyish. No lacing to speak of.

Nose is clean decocted malts. Sweet and a bit nutty it just makes me want to sip.

Initial notes of similar themes... nutty, decoction sweet. There are dancing notes of rich caramel and riesen chocolate and some toast and nuts (mildly mildly nutella) and a light earthy bitter, but subtle. But there's also a somewhat mineralic component that's detracting a little bit, and I wish the whole thing were a little more pronounced as it comes across somewhat watery. The finish is rich and enjoyable, and I just wish the rest of it hewed closer to that standard.
Glad to have grabbed it though it'll probably be a one and done!

 

 

473ml can - the 'creepy uncle' depicted on the label pretty much looks like yer average brewmaster these days, IMHO.

This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some layered streaky lace around the glass as things evenly subside.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, some toasted nuttiness, indistinct black stone fruit, and some tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, medium chocolate, some bruised pome fruitiness, a hint of free-range char, oily bar-top nuts, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite tame in its innocuous-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a more or less swell time at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the mighty malt the order of the lingering day.

Overall - this comes across as a well-made, and hearty version of the style, robustly malty, with just enough hop bitters to keep everything between the ditches. Worth checking out, as it's nice to see this brewery's wares suddenly show up on Alberta bottleshop shelves.

 

 

 

Poured from a 650 ml bottle
Can't get pass the Cooper penny flavor, bad bottle?

 

British Columbia review dump.

A- The extra high can pours into a whiskey glass with a deep brown to black body and a nutty tan cap peaking at one cm. The head retention is decent and a small ring remains depositing rare spotty lacing.

S- Toasted to charred malts in the forefront with dark fruit notes from the yeast rounding it out. Toasted nuts, bread, cocoa, tobacco and toffee from the grains along with suggested caramel sweets.

T- Chocolate malts and bread make up the bulk of the flavor but that isn't to say it is too simplistic. Toasted but not charred nuts are strong, cocoa nibs, toffee sweets, leather, slight smoke, raisin, cherry truffle, grainy cereal and milk chocolate hints all poke through. Malt focus with hops just there to provide yang.

MF- A light to medium body that comes off just a bit thin as the texture of the beer is minimally frothy. Medium level of carbonation.

Amazing can design and a good Dunkel to boot. A bit more body would go a long way but in the end these brewers found some tasty malts and ran with it.

 

Nice caramel flavor, good aroma and body. This is one where the can art is so phenomenal that it elevates the experience. If you like a dark beer with a sweet flavor, then you are going to love this.