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Detroit Dwarf
Old Nation Brewing Co.
- From:
- Old Nation Brewing Co.
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- Altbier
Ranked #46 - ABV:
- 5.9%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #18,828 - Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 11.02%
- Reviews:
- 6
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 17, 2024
- Added:
- Aug 09, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 7
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Reviewed by TreyIsWilson from Michigan
3.78/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A - Pours a dark reddish brown with a one finger creamy tan head. Light amount of soapy lacing.
S - Aroma is brown bread, fruity esters and raisins.
T - The taste is toasted brown bread, fruity esters, raisins, apple, caramel malts and a light earthy bitterness.
M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Soft mouthfeel with a nice crisp finish.
O - Decent Altbier.
Mar 17, 2024S - Aroma is brown bread, fruity esters and raisins.
T - The taste is toasted brown bread, fruity esters, raisins, apple, caramel malts and a light earthy bitterness.
M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Soft mouthfeel with a nice crisp finish.
O - Decent Altbier.
Reviewed by puck1225 from Texas
4.02/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.02/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A beautiful beer! Poured from a bottle into a snifter. Nice cloudy brown with reddish tint. Thick, creamy head and great lacing. Smell is bready sweet as well as the taste. Nicely malty. Very enjoyable beer!
Jan 04, 2017Reviewed by StoutHunter from Michigan
2.6/5 rDev -31.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
2.6/5 rDev -31.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.5
I picked up a bottle of Old Nation's Detroit Dwarf for $1.79 at The Lager Mill. This one caught my eye at the beer store and I thought it was worth taking a chance on, so lets see how it goes. 2016 Vintage. Poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a imperial pint glass.
A- The label looks nice, it's a little weird and it's eye catching. It poured a slightly muddy brown caramel color that took on more of ac crimson and ruby hue when held to the light with about a fingers worth of bubbly and slightly creamy light tan head that died down to a thin ring that eventually faded away and it left a little bit of patchy lacing behind. This is a pretty nice looking beer, I have no complaints.
S- The aroma starts off with a medium amount of sweetness with a weird off aroma being the first to show up and it has a wet cardboard aspect to it and it's followed by a stale malt aroma with some watery grainy and there's just a slight bit of a soapy hop aroma. The aroma isn't that good, it's got too many off aromas.
T- The taste seems to be similar to the aroma and it starts off with a medium amount of sweetness with that wet cardboard aspect being the first to show up and it's followed by the watery malts which impart the same grainy and watery flavor with just a little bit of toasted malts and there's still just a little bit of those soapy hops coming through. On the finish there's pretty much no bitterness with a linger stale malt flavor in the aftertaste. This isn't a great tasting beer, there's some off flavors that hurt it.
M- Not too smooth, watery, over carbonated, very crisp, prickly, medium bodied with a high amount of carbonation. The mouthfeel isn't that great, it's got too much carbonation.
Overall I thought this wasn't a good beer and it wasn't a great example of the style, it was hard to get to the Altbier flavors when all the the off flavors got in the way, I'm pretty sure this wasn't a good bottling for this beer. This beer didn't have good drinkability, half a glass is more than enough for me and I almost drain poured it. What I like the most about this beer is the appearance, it's the highlight of this beer. What I like the least about this beer is the taste and aroma, they had a bunch of off aspects an they weren't that great. I might buy this beer again, if I knew it wasn't full of off flavors and it would be nice to try it on tap. I can't say I would recommend it, it's just not a good example of the style. All in all I wasn't too happy with this beer, it caught my eye and I like Altbiers, but I feel like i wasted money on a beer that was so full of problems it was hard to see the base beer. This doesn't make for a good experience from this brewery and it's a below average beer that shouldn't be sold as it is. Better luck next time guys, this one needs some major work.
May 19, 2016A- The label looks nice, it's a little weird and it's eye catching. It poured a slightly muddy brown caramel color that took on more of ac crimson and ruby hue when held to the light with about a fingers worth of bubbly and slightly creamy light tan head that died down to a thin ring that eventually faded away and it left a little bit of patchy lacing behind. This is a pretty nice looking beer, I have no complaints.
S- The aroma starts off with a medium amount of sweetness with a weird off aroma being the first to show up and it has a wet cardboard aspect to it and it's followed by a stale malt aroma with some watery grainy and there's just a slight bit of a soapy hop aroma. The aroma isn't that good, it's got too many off aromas.
T- The taste seems to be similar to the aroma and it starts off with a medium amount of sweetness with that wet cardboard aspect being the first to show up and it's followed by the watery malts which impart the same grainy and watery flavor with just a little bit of toasted malts and there's still just a little bit of those soapy hops coming through. On the finish there's pretty much no bitterness with a linger stale malt flavor in the aftertaste. This isn't a great tasting beer, there's some off flavors that hurt it.
M- Not too smooth, watery, over carbonated, very crisp, prickly, medium bodied with a high amount of carbonation. The mouthfeel isn't that great, it's got too much carbonation.
Overall I thought this wasn't a good beer and it wasn't a great example of the style, it was hard to get to the Altbier flavors when all the the off flavors got in the way, I'm pretty sure this wasn't a good bottling for this beer. This beer didn't have good drinkability, half a glass is more than enough for me and I almost drain poured it. What I like the most about this beer is the appearance, it's the highlight of this beer. What I like the least about this beer is the taste and aroma, they had a bunch of off aspects an they weren't that great. I might buy this beer again, if I knew it wasn't full of off flavors and it would be nice to try it on tap. I can't say I would recommend it, it's just not a good example of the style. All in all I wasn't too happy with this beer, it caught my eye and I like Altbiers, but I feel like i wasted money on a beer that was so full of problems it was hard to see the base beer. This doesn't make for a good experience from this brewery and it's a below average beer that shouldn't be sold as it is. Better luck next time guys, this one needs some major work.
Rated by MikeZ9654 from Michigan
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nice lager. Smooth
Apr 15, 2016
Detroit Dwarf from Old Nation Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
34 ratings
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