Temne
Slavutych Brewery

A decent offering from the Ukraine. Pours out to a dark amber in the glass with a very huge head. The aroma is that of a light malt and grain. The taste is good, with hints of caramel and lightly roasted malt. Fairly average, but tasted fresh. I'd drink it again.

At first glance, this really looked and smelled like a bock beer.
Poured a light russet with a one finger head, light nutty aroma, slightly sweet. Taste delivered a medium bodied and malty presence up front, with a light sweetness lingering after. Body seemed more full than a typical dark lager, a vague richness that was more reminiscent of a bock than anything else.

Easy drinking, worth trying if you see it.

Not bad, but a painfully boring beer. Pours out to a medium reddish orange color, with a medium head of tan foam. No lace. Aromas of roasty malts, grain, corn. Not bad. Taste is bland and uneventful. A touch of hops is drowned out by medium bodied malts and a touch of roasted grain. Some sweetness is noted toward the finish, along with a caramel note, but for the most part, mildness rules this brew. Mouthfeel is slightly abrasive, but not offensive. Very watery. Drinkability is average. Nothing to seekout here, but porth a sampling.

The beer evacuates the 500ml brown bottle a clear burnished copper to almost brown with a moderate in size head that is frothy in texture and tan in color with the resultant lace a thin and obfuscating sheet. Nose is sweet malt, hints of caramel; fresh and crisp, start is sweet with a fair to middling malt presence, the top light in feel. Finish is distinct in its acidity, the hops pleasantly spicy and the aftertaste very dry, a drinkable beer, nothing spectacular.

pours a dark copper color with a head that falls very quickly to the slightest lace, but left some on the glass.

the aroma is mostly malt with a slight hop in the back ground.

the flavor is mostly malt, with a good hop bitterness, little carmelly, minerally with a dry finish.

the mouthfeel is decent, not to watery for the low alochol.

very drinkable, but, nothing super special.

Appearance – This is a darkish orange with a head that poured well but went down quickly.

Smell – I like the nice, toasty, malty aroma here but it smells more like a German seasonal than a Dunkles.

Taste – This one is very malty and toasty with some good caramel and sugar sweetness to it. Again, more like an Oktoberfest or even a Maibock instead of a Dunkles.

Mouthfeel – Light to medium in the body and lip-smackingly sweet.

Drinkability – It may not be a Dunkel Lager but it wasn’t half bad.

TOPTOBA MAPKA,etc... CHARACTERS ON LABEL..TEMHE on front label TEMNE on back.... ?? Brewed in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine (say that a few times). When the 500ml bottle is opened and poured, no foam = trouble, therefore a flat tasting brew. The color is a cloudy, deep, chestnut brown. Smell and tastes of heavy malt. Taste is also quite sweet, and almost nut-like. This "Dark beer" was not very good at all.

A foamy blanket (which turns to dense clumps) of a head covers this beer. The color is a deep, chestnut brown. Smell is heavy of malt, and a bit spicy. Taste is initially very malty, and extremely sweet....nutty, and a little oily. This beer has plenty of character and was quite enjoyable.
(Other than the gov't warning, there was barely a word of english on the label)

Well...tell you the truth, I don't even think I had a true Dunkel yet...but if this is what it is supposed to be like, I don't think I'll be getting to many more. In the aroma is candy malts (found out what that was in a disciption) and light notes of maybe grapes and or cherries? That same candy malt flavor can be tasted on the palate...which I do not like, maybe it was over done or something. Be all and end all, unenjoyable for me...but I will try another Dunkel again sometime.