Dunkel
Hofbrauhaus Freising

Feathery light dunkel with light haze; decent mouthfeel for as light as it drinks and a subtle malty/cereal-grainyish flavor and aftertaste. Another HF brew with the bottle date of 250322 which if I'm interpreting it correctly means this beer is 13 months old and was probably better fresher.

Appearance - mahogany body with tan head'

Smell - baked brown bread, slight bakers chocolate

Taste - slight bakers chocolate, baked brown bread, nuts

Mouthfeel - medium bodied, medium carbonation, nutty upfront, bready in the finish

overall - decent iteration of the style that's worthy of a try

Apparently this isn’t the regular Hofbrau. I bought it thinking it was either an alternate special edition label or a different brewing location. The latter doesn’t really make sense. But this is actually a completely different German brewery in a different city. The two Hofbrau dunkels are appropriate beers to compare since both are very classic renditions. This Freising edition looks good, with a solid fluffy head and coffee color. Not too pretty, but nice-looking. Smell is pretty light: mostly roasted coffee and chocolate, with very subtle fruit and green grassy notes. Taste is mostly coffee with a bit of chocolate and nuttiness. A gentle crisp bite. Very subtle red berry (mostly raspberry) and prune. The finish is lightly sweet with a bit of grass, stems, and berry. A very solid beer. Tastes kinda like a roastier version of Stiegl Goldbrau. I prefer the other more famous Hofbrau, though. It’s prettier and richer in flavor.

Dark brown color. Nice, beige head. Roasted malt, rye bread, and hops in the aroma. Malty taste with grainy and chocolate notes. Pleasant hoppy bitterness in the end.

 

Poured from a 330mL bottle into a New Glarus 30th anniversary mug. Pours a light brown with two fingers of perfectly crowning khaki colored foam head. Dark bread up front on the nose. Even get hints of light coffee and chocolate as it warms up a little. Taste follows. Crazy smooth. Full mouthfeel. Classic brew.

 

 

Minor, off-white head. Few spots left on the glass. Solid brown color where light passes easily through the center.

Sweeter toffee aroma with counterbalancing bitterness at all.

Thinner body as appropriate for the style. Muted carbonation. The taste mimics the smell. More toffee sweetness and little else. Shorter aftertaste. Overall, a one trick pony.

A quick scoot down to my favorite neighborhood wine/beer/cheese/whatever shop brought me to chilling outside with this lil brew. not often I see anything close to the dunkel territories of beers recently so it was an easy decision.
Dumped into the pint glass(a bit sloppily because I'm stupid) a nice clear super dark amber, with a khaki head of foam rising a good bit up the glass and leaving a solid cap atop. Good little bits of sticky lacing stick behind.
The aroma is a lot of nicely toasted bread, with a caramel/toffee note joining in and some bits of bitterness that keep things in line. It smells like what sitting next to a fireplace in the morning feels like.
The freshly toasted breads come through at the forefront of the flavor, followed by a swath of sweetness and slightly bitter chocolate. The toasted malt really just controls the show though, with everything else taking a bit of a supporting role. Really tasty shit here
Easy to drink, it all feels fairly light on the palate, while still covering the mouth and leaving a lingering lightly sweet malt profile. Any bitterness comes and goes like a bad relationship, this beer is easy to put down and went away faster than I wanted it to. Should've grabbed a second truly

 

This is a damn good brew. Pours a nice 2 finger head and leaves tons of lacing down the glass. Slight scents of chocolate and caramel on the nose. A bit light but extremely smooth with toffee, chocolate, and coffee on the taste buds. Just enough hops to keep this beer quaffable as hell. A bit overpriced.

A high quality German dunkel acquired at Cranberry PA Shop n Save. Poured a nice head which ebbed slowly. Dark amber color. Smells of lightly baked pumpernickel bread crusts with faint toffe and cacao and sweet caramel notes and tastes as much but sweet up front to bitter toasted malts at the end. No discernable hops which is not missed. Creamy smooth effervescence. Silky. Uber enjoyable example. So funny, it begs dried fruits but that would not be fair as this is not an Andechs Dopplebock Dunkel that I savored from a keg long ago and reminisce of like a lost love.

Dunkel – from Hofbrauhaus Freising. Case of 11.2 fl oz bottles picked up at Franklin Beer Co, Franklin, PA, 13/04/24, $46.00 (Including tax), $ 0.171/fl oz. Reviewed 18/04/24 (Review 3259). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Printed on the back label “Production date 24015”. Stored at room temperature at the distributor, 34 degrees at home. Served at 53 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 57.3 degrees F.
Appearance – 4.5
First pour – Pale Amber (SRM 9), clear.
Body – Deep Amber (SRM 15), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, deep amber and clear.
Head – Large (Maximum 5 cm, aggressive center pour), beige, high density and meringue-like, average retention, leaving a 0.7 – 1.5 cm crown, and a thin, partial cap.
Lacing – Good. Wide arcs of tiny to small bubbles.
Aroma – 4.5 – Toasted malt. No yeast, no hops, no alcohol (5.2 % ABV as marked on the label).
Flavor – 4.5 – Begins slightly sweet with caramel and toasted malt. No yeast, no hops. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium; creamy; soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 4.25 Excellent dunkel!

L-Chestnut brown color...good clarity

S-Fresh baked bread crusts.....lighter notes of cocoa and nuts..really a great aroma on this one.

T-Notes of fresh bread.....melanoidins galore. Other notes of toasted caramel, and cocoa..Really a nice flavor to this dunkel.

F-Super clean...and fortunately it does not have that artificial milk chocolate syrup flavor some dunkels in the U.S have...

O-Top quality dunkel. One of the best I've had.

 

 

Extremely tasty perfect to acquire at the local beer garden on tap. Full taste soo scrumptious.

Pours a very dark amber color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has caramel and malt hints
The taste follows the nose with a caramel and malt flavor
A medium bodied well carbonated beer
A good Dunkel

500ml bottle from Beers of Europe online shop (£2.79):
Chestnut brown & translucent with a 1cm, foamy head that's an off-white to very light tan colour & holds fairly decent. Caramel & a nutty base, not particularly sweet with roasted & slightly earthy malts round things off. Similar taste-wise some nice caramel & chocolate with a little more sweetness here, faintly nutty & well balanced, a solid dunkel.