Skydog
The Tap Brewing Company
- From:
- The Tap Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Munich Dunkel
- ABV:
- 5.25%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 1.93%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 02, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by brureview from Massachusetts
4.06/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Light coffee color in a Brooklyn Oktoberfest glass with a 1F head.
Excellent fruity aroma, esters, sweet.
Biscuity, malty with a semi light body.
Biscuity, malty, fruit taste.
Excellent approach to style. Very European.
Mar 17, 2018Excellent fruity aroma, esters, sweet.
Biscuity, malty with a semi light body.
Biscuity, malty, fruit taste.
Excellent approach to style. Very European.
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4.26/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
The Tap has been crushing styles no one bothers to make recently, and on top of that they've been canning and distributing these creations! Maize-A-Faire, for example, was an amazingly well-made example of a craft American Adjunct Lager made with corn, and this is kind of a Munich dark lager style beer. Who does that? Good for these guys!
Beautiful appearance on this one... one of the best I've seen lately. 100% filtered and gorgeous with a deep brown/garnet color topped off with khaki-colored head covering the whole surface of this lager. I'd say this is in the 30-32 SRM range, color-wise. Awesome drippy lace as the initial head fades down to about a finger-and-a-half. Solid legs here, too. Just a total knockout, appearance-wise!
Nose is redolent of toasted bread crusts, molasses, light caramel and toffee with baking spice, anise/black licorice and subtle herbal/botanical (wormwood, arrowroot) notes. Extremely solid and stylistically-appropriate. A neutral and clean yeast character assists the Munich-heavy malts and Noble-type hoppiness. No sulfur, off-notes or ethanol present here at all. Simple, clean, slightly-characterful... love it!
Soft and supple palate with a toffee-like sugary note, some bready and herbal flavors along with a note of baking spice as noted in the nose. Super clean with no esters or anything out-of-the-ordinary going on. The light spice element comes across a bit earthy, and I like the translation of the anise/fennel from the nose to a broader and more wide-ranging malt/spice flavor with light floral and herbal elements. Can't say I'm blown away, but this is 100% solid for the style. I'm amazed a small local brewery even bothered making something like this!
Feel is on the lighter side of medium for the style, with some nice levity provided by semi-bitter hops in the finish. There's a kiss of sweetness as each sip fades, and the carbonation is on the moderate side. Not much else to say here, but this is a super-solid dark lager in a style very few newer breweries in my area bother to even attempt, never mind succeed at. The only remotely-similar thing I can think of with any kind of distribution around me is Jack's Abby's Red Tape, which this is slightly better than anyway. Good job, Tap!
Nov 25, 2017Beautiful appearance on this one... one of the best I've seen lately. 100% filtered and gorgeous with a deep brown/garnet color topped off with khaki-colored head covering the whole surface of this lager. I'd say this is in the 30-32 SRM range, color-wise. Awesome drippy lace as the initial head fades down to about a finger-and-a-half. Solid legs here, too. Just a total knockout, appearance-wise!
Nose is redolent of toasted bread crusts, molasses, light caramel and toffee with baking spice, anise/black licorice and subtle herbal/botanical (wormwood, arrowroot) notes. Extremely solid and stylistically-appropriate. A neutral and clean yeast character assists the Munich-heavy malts and Noble-type hoppiness. No sulfur, off-notes or ethanol present here at all. Simple, clean, slightly-characterful... love it!
Soft and supple palate with a toffee-like sugary note, some bready and herbal flavors along with a note of baking spice as noted in the nose. Super clean with no esters or anything out-of-the-ordinary going on. The light spice element comes across a bit earthy, and I like the translation of the anise/fennel from the nose to a broader and more wide-ranging malt/spice flavor with light floral and herbal elements. Can't say I'm blown away, but this is 100% solid for the style. I'm amazed a small local brewery even bothered making something like this!
Feel is on the lighter side of medium for the style, with some nice levity provided by semi-bitter hops in the finish. There's a kiss of sweetness as each sip fades, and the carbonation is on the moderate side. Not much else to say here, but this is a super-solid dark lager in a style very few newer breweries in my area bother to even attempt, never mind succeed at. The only remotely-similar thing I can think of with any kind of distribution around me is Jack's Abby's Red Tape, which this is slightly better than anyway. Good job, Tap!
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