Vierzehnheiligen Nothelfer Trunk Export Dunkel
Alte Klosterbrauerei Vierzehnheiligen Brauerei Trunk

medium body, caramel, dr pepper notes, cream, dry and abrupt end, which invites to to take another sip. very nice. in the top 3 dunkels for me. 4.10

From the bottle, it pours a nice clear brown color with a modest light tan head that leaves lacing as you enjoy it. The nose gets some roasted malts and caramel. The mouth gets some nice roasted malts, caramel, nuttiness and some bitterness. Easy drinking dunkel!

Alte Klosterbrauerei Vierzehnheiligen Brauerei Trunk "Nothelfer Dunkel"
2,50€/,5L on tap at the brewery on 17 September 2017

Notes: While this wasn't listed as an export beer I'm quite sure it's the same as they both have the same alcohol content at 5.1%.
Look: Clear dark chestnut brown with golden, orange, crimson, and ruby highlights when held to the light. The head is a densely foamy cap that's somewhere between khaki and light tan in color. It displays excellent head retention and lacing making it a really beautiful beer to look at.
Smell: Aromatic notes of brown bread, brown sugar, ground coffee beans, and apple.
Taste: Rich and complex with notes of golden caramel, darker caramel, nuttiness, chocolate, a light roastiness, and grassy hops. It's almost porter-like with its rich malt. A median bitterness balances it and it finishes mild with some chocolate lingering.
Feel: Medium to medium-light in body and smooth with a fine-bubbled, seemingly natural carbonation.
Overall: Quite a remarkable dunkel that offers more character than most while remaining perfectly balanced and highly quaffable.
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L:
-pours a clear ruby with a small to medium,sand-coloured head
-medium carbonation visible
S:
-plums,strawberries,malty,caramel,lightly nutty
T:
-spicy,nutty,roasty,hearty,malty,caramel
-medium to high bitterniss for the style
F:
-medium carbonation
-light to medium body
O:
One of the roastier,less sweet Dunkels.
Really good stuff.

De Landbierparadies. En copa hefe de Bavaria. Viendo El Hombre en el Castillo 1x02-03. Caduca en una semana. Correcta aunque le falta mayor intensidad en el sabor respecto a mejores exponentes del estilo. Muy buen feel, eso si

A: Thick looking, mahogany colour, medium tanned head which hung around for a bit, left some lacing.

S: Dark chocolate and malt.

T: Dark chocolate, slight hints of cherry. Long roasted malty bitter finish.

M: Low carbonation, smooth, medium body, went down well.

O: A nice Dunkel, subtle and balanced.

This Munich dunkel pours a medium brown with a ruby tint and a small to medium white frothy head that quickly dissipates. The smell is mild, but pretty unique. It is a little bit fruity and a little bit sweet. There is a fantastic malt character to this beer which immediately hits you with some nice roasted grain and caramel notes that melt into a slightly bitter dark chocolate / mildly hoppy finish that lingers on the tongue. It is a little sweet, but not overwhelmingly so in my opinion. There is also a very mild fruit flavor, possibly of plum, that adds a nice extra dimension to the beer. The body is on the high end of medium, perfect for a dunkel, especially of the Munich variety. It actually hasn’t been rated enough times make the top Munich dunkels list on Beer Advocate (probably because it is exclusive to Germany), but I have no doubt that it would be in the top 5, if not the top position, if more people had tried it. I often find this style to be delicious, but lacking in complexity and this beer to some degree overcomes that stigma.

 

 

 

Pours clear, dark brown body with red-garnet hue when held to the light, topped by thin yet well formed light tan head that vanishes at medium pace.
Aroma is Munich malt with rich melanoidins reminiscent of bread crust, and chocolate.
Taste is dominated by bread crust flavor and exhibits nice balance between the malt and hop-bitterness. Fish is moderately dry and clean, with notes of nuts.
A bit watery medium-light body with fine, prickly carbonation.

In short, a Munich Dunkel with bread crust aroma/flavor, albeit a bit dull overall character. (500 ml, BB date 12-22-2011, into tulip.)

Pours a deep dark brown, slightly black with a decent lingering white head.
Nose is full of rich dark malts, a bit of chocolate.
Taste is super roasty, some chocolate, a bit of caramel, and a nice rounded bitterness.
Finish is clean with a lingering roastiness.

Wow, I didn't realize how good this thing really was until I started to think about it. Rich and flavorful yet incredibly easy drinking; how much better could it possibly get. This is a beer that really defies the stigma of how lagers aren't as interesting and flavorful as ales.

I was lucky enough to spend a year abroad studying in the Franconian town of Bamberg, Germany and this was by far my favorite beer from that region. I ventured over to the Trunk Brewery several times, which is located beyond the Basilica in Bad Staffelstein and the name Vierzehnheiligen means "the fourteen holy ones." The beer has a dark brown color, almost black and the head (Schaum) is larger than most dark beers with a light brown to tan color. The taste has a very strong presence of chocolate, which only serves to enhance the full body of the beer. If anyone has seen this beer in the US or knows of any way to import it, please let me know. I highly recommend this beer.

Lasting but not really dense and regular head, on a beautiful mahogany color body. The smell is roundly malty, with some toasted and roasted notes, together with a light raw graininess. Some coffee notes, but a bit milky. The taste gets quite enjoyable; a round and intense maltiness, with a roasted bitterness that stays on the palate gets combined with fruity notes of grape and a citric and slightly acidic aspect, with a juicy grapefruity character appearing in the back of the tongue. Mouthfeel is pretty good, round and smooth, yet quite refreshing and not excessively heavy. The hoppy aftertaste, accentuated by the bitterness of the roasted malts may be overpronounced. But overall a decent brew.