Dunkel
Enegren Brewing Company

 

On tap at Aces and Ales Tenaya in Las Vegas, NV.

This one pours a fairly dark brown color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like caramel, toasty bread, chocolate, and a touch of herbal hop character.

This is just super duper solid. It’s super toasty, with a light sweetness, and it’s just really well balanced overall. There’s some caramel and chocolate, a touch of hoppy bitterness, and a really full bodied toasty breadiness on the finish.

This is medium bodied slightly creamy, and super drinkable.

I have always been somewhat intrigued by Enegren, and really want to try more of their lagers.

 

Handsome clear reddish brown brew with off-white foam in the Leute Bokbier glass. Aromatic with roasted grain, cereal, and some woody notes. Plenty of spritz on the tongue. This is fairly sweet with finishes with a hoppy note. Modest bit of bitterness in the aftertaste. Pleasant nutty and musty flavor with roasted malt and a slight charred edge. From the 16 oz can purchased at the beer store. Dated 01/22/2024.

Poured from a can at fridge temp. Pours dark with creamy head. The nose is super smooth. Tons of toffee, bread, and biscuits. Big malts. The taste is complex and more intense than I would have guessed. Plums, toffee pudding, dark bread, malts, spice, and some oak. Mild sweetness. Lovely beer.

Opaque reddish brown body with two fingers of tan foam and splotches of lacing. Sweet caramel malt with german dark yeast, slight nuttiness and dark fruit. Taste takes on more of a toffee flavor as opposed to caramel, big plum and general dark fruit, supporting nuts, earth, tobacco as it warms, and brown bread from the german yeast. Rich malt shapes the taste, fuller bodied for style yet very smooth. Fantastic, happy I have a second can!

rich, but true to style

 

Beautiful mahogany color with average to below average head. Carbonization on the lower side of average but it's fine. Smell is sweet toffee, indistinct grassy, hop aroma. Taste is sweet, dark and with a medium mouth feel. Coats the mouth, a bit chewy. Overall it's a wonderful sipping Dunkel, on the sweet side of the scales. It's a style I wish more local breweries had Dunkel in their line-up.

 

 

 

Does this Dunkel make Raul want to dunk it? Nah, not so much. Not even a John Stockton lay up either. It’s all ok and stuff. Like, just ok. It’s clean like Fido after a wash and doesn’t taste all that bad, but it’s pretty sweet. A tad too much if you ask Raul. So, yeah... This one is like Devon George draining a 16 footer with a lil rim action. Yep, that’s about it.

 

Sweet malty, toffee caramel, and shortbread biscuity nose on this one! Taste follows with a roasty caramel maltiness upfront and then a chocolate-like biscuity finish. The munich dunkel style lager notes and flavors are there and balanced...they just seem a bit muted compared to other beers I have had in this style.

Type: 16-oz. can
Reviewed as: Munich Dunkel Lager
Glass: Clear 16-oz. Bruges beer glass
Price: $11.19 for a 4-pack (I think)
From: Windmill Farms in Del Cerro (San Diego), Calif.
Purchased: April 30, 2020
Consumed: May 8, 2020
Misc.: No canned on date

Grabbed a 4-pack of this with a ton of others on a recent trip to Windmill Farms. I think Enegren is one of the coolest things going, basically brewing what they want to and not worrying about anything else. No idea what to expect review wise as it would just be my second Munich Dunkel Lager review and first since June 24, 2012. Also just my second MDL on Untappd, also giving Figueroa Mountain’s I Dunkeled in my Pants as 3.50 on Untappd on Aug. 2, 2015. Enegren’s website read, “Our Munich Dunkel - a dark German lager - is one of the maltiest and smoothest beers we've ever brewed. German Munich, Melanoidin and debittered chocolate malts give the beer a rich and complex malt flavor unique to this style beer. Hints of caramel, chocolate and toasty flavors provide additional depth, and a slight hoppiness balances the beer for delicious full-bodied brew.”

Poured a dark copper-to-reddish brown color with 1-to-2 fingers of fizzy khaki tan head. Could see just a few bubble streams coming up from the bottom of the glass. Below average watery lacing. Poor retention. (Sight - 3.00)

Smelled nuts, brown bread, chocolate, plum, date, raisin, hints of tobacco and toasted caramel. Much of the same from the can, maybe with the addition of honey. (Smell - 4.25)

Tasted pretty much as good as the nose. In order got plum, raisin, date, brown bread, wheat toast, nuts and caramel. (Taste - 4.25)

Medium body. Creamy-to-sticky texture. Average carbonation. Long, smooth finish. (Feel - 4.50)

Just another world-class offering from what’s quickly becoming one of my favorite breweries. (Overall - 4.25)

4.20 | 94 | A-

 

On tap at Enegren Brewing Company in Moorpark, CA.

Pours a clear dark copper with a foamy tan head that settles to a partial film on top of the beer. Foamy swaths of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of toasted malt, caramel, fruit, and nut aromas. Taste is much the same with toast, caramel, nut, and fruit flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer with a nice mix of toast, nut, and fruit characteristics.

Serving type: on tap.