Brother Benno
Foundation Brewing Company

 

Poured from the can into a Libbey style pilsner glass. Canned November 4th 2019.

Very beautiful looking beer, deep copper and ruby red body with excellent clarity. Khaki rich frothy and forming head, easily three plus fingers in height with a light top and big staying power. Beautiful looking beer.

Pleasant and real nice aroma to go with it. Deep sensing caramel and a real vanilla and creamy sense of sweetness coming off the beer. Hazelnut light whipped chocolate, and almost that Ferrero Rocher chocolate kind of smell. Very impressive.

Palate goes a little simpler and less impressive. Light bodied and flirting with wet backbone of malt, but just lightly enough to still produce and carry the base flavors. Faint touches of caramel but also a hint of faint fruity to an almost rye like harsh quality. Just a hair hinting of sour grain, but luckily not so much that it is off putting. Finishes very clean but also exceptionally light for a dunkel.

A fairly decent beer despite some minor faults.

A: Pours a cola brown color with 2 fingers of head that fades down to a thin cap

S: Toasted malt, candi sugar, grain, and light fruitiness. Interesting

T: Starts off with the toasted malt, light bread and fruit, some light nuttiness, grain, and a bit of caramel sweetness

M: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation

O: A very good Munich dark. Almost ale-like with the yeast/malt combo but still very much a lager. Super drinkable. A rarity to find the style much less have it be good. Check it out

Fabulous Pilsner taste with slightly increased malty sweetness without disrupting the Pilsner ‘crisp finish.’ Very crushable for winter in the north country. Looks like a brown, smells of Bavaria, and has lager smoothness! This beer is a hidden gem.