Sarajevska Tamno
Sarajevska Pivara

 

 

 

 

 

Shared 500 ml can at local tasting. Dark ruby colour, off-white to beige head. Moderate malty aroma, bready notes. Distinctly malty flavour, notes of brown bread and caramel. Not too sweet, minimal hops as expected.

330ml bottle from Taj Mahal, Dubrovnik (50kn):
Dark mahogany to black with an opaque body & a 1cm, bubbly head that's tan brown & halves in size fairly quickly but still covers the surface. It's dark with roasted malts & light chocolates on the nose, some earthy notes & subtle coffee but it's fairly well balanced overall. It's a roasted malt taste, dark bitter malts & chocolate with a hint of caramel then light sugars. It's medium bodied & smooth, a lingering malt bitterness & well-carbonated with a sharp, dry finish.

Had on tap. Probably the best beer I have had in bosnia, croatia, and slovenia. Has nice malt work in the texture with the grains. The resulting tastes are roasted malt, slight caramel, fig, almond, and yeast. Smell is not as rich and more grainy malt heavy than taste. Decent dark ale, but could use a little more filling out of flavors all the way through the taste.

 

This is a great dark lager. Chestnut, it has a small tan head soon thinning to foamy thin top. Aroma is mild toasty fig and brown bread. Taste is nice balance of sweet-bitter, both firm and fully present. It has sweet dark dried fig, earthy-spicy hod bitterness. Like the pale lager, it has a strong, characterful, balanced hop-malt character, not like the normal "Euro" lager mass-produced stuff, from this region or anywhere else. This is a real, traditional dark lager (dunkel-type).

 

 

Low C-

 

Best and most likely the only dark beer in had in Bosnia.
Hard to find

 

 

This beer is hard to place, it does not taste like a typical dark lager. It’s smooth and mellow, with lots of malty sweetness countered with just the right touch of bitterness. It’s not a complex beer, but it is very well balanced – it tastes as a good and simple, well balances session beer should taste. Made by Sarajevo brewery, this is their tastiest beer: unfortunately it’s not bottled and it’s available only on tap.

tamno means dark here in bosnia, and this is one of the only dark beers around, and even this one isnt easy to find. it pours honey thick and redish brown with a greater than two inch off white head that lasts awhile. smells like english malts with a lot of residual sugar and a hint of toffee. some decent roast on the malt, but this is more of a german style dark lager rather than a porter or something of that nature. flavor is good, satisfyingly heavy. sweet but not over the top. i look forward to drinking these, and thats more than i can say for anything else ive had from bosnia on this trip. feel works, hearty body and enough carbonation. itd be an excellent fall brew, but im enjoying it just fine in 100 degree heat. this is my go to until september when i return to denver. a nice compliment to a fruity shisha pipe

edit, i just realized how being away from craft stuff changes your perspective. this is rated higher to me on here than a lot of other beers id much rather have. denver to sarajevo is a major departure on the beer front, but this one is filling the void expertly for me