Maple Dunkel
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company

Maple DunkelMaple Dunkel
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From:
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
 
Wisconsin, United States
Style:
Munich Dunkel
ABV:
5.8%
Score:
81
Avg:
3.48 | pDev: 13.51%
Reviews:
12
Ratings:
34
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 19, 2017
Added:
Aug 10, 2016
Wants:
  4
Gots:
  7
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Ratings by Foyle:
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Reviewed by Foyle from North Carolina

3.17/5  rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Served from 12oz bottle into pilsner glass.

Appearance: pours a 1" cream head that drops quickly with minute lacing. Color is reddish brown with moderate streaming carbonation.
Aroma: maple, wheat, bread dough, and a bit of citrus
Mouthfeel: light and very frothy, somewhat astringent in the finish.
Flavor: rich roasted malts, some wheat and maple (milder than in the nose) with a bit of citrus bitterness to round it out.
Overall: a very decent deer.
Aug 16, 2016
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Reviewed by superspak from North Carolina

3.31/5  rDev -4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 12/5/2016. Pours crystal clear dark reddish brown color with a small fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big maple syrup, wood, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, and light herbal. Okay aromas with solid balance of maple, dark/bready malt, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Way too much maple in the aromas. Taste of big maple syrup, wood, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted brown bread, light nuttiness/roast, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/spicy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of maple syrup, wood, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toasted brown bread, light nuttiness/roast, and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice robustness, balance, and solid complexity of maple, dark/bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly drying from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. A bit stale feeling. Very clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Zero warming alcohol for 5.8%. Overall this is an okay Munich dunkel lager. All around good robustness, balance, and solid complexity of maple, dark/bready malt, and light earthy hop flavors very smooth and easy to drink. This hardly represents a Munich dunkel at all. Too much maple sweetness, and not enough toasty/nutty malts. Munich malt presence is lacking. This was fairly enjoyable.
Aug 19, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by a77cj7 from South Dakota

Jul 02, 2017
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Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania

3.64/5  rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a brown 12 oz. bottle. Has a very dark brown color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is strong of maple syrup. Taste is maple syrup, malts, light sweetness. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall, not something I would drink regularly, but it's a unique beer worth trying.
May 02, 2017
 
Rated: 3.58 by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania

Feb 26, 2017
 
Rated: 3.61 by DownyIsHungry from Minnesota

Feb 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.98 by KnappStout from Wisconsin

Jan 14, 2017
 
Rated: 4.01 by Grupatre from Michigan

Jan 13, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by BrewskiBrandon from Missouri

Jan 08, 2017
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Reviewed by SteveJeremy from Connecticut

3.53/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Leinenkugel has been so hit or miss with their line of darker beers (aka beers that aren't shandies) that finding a really good, palatable one might as well be a diamond in the rough.

Maple Dunkel is so good that it doesn't make sense that they'd mass-produce it after already funnelling tons of marketing and time into their God awful India Pale Lager. Far and beyond better than that beer, their Pale Ale, and even their Heart of Oak, the maple touch here is subtle, even if it is sometimes drowned in a sea of malty richness.

Perfect fall beer and another one they really should take a gamble on.
Nov 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.7 by JDoHo from Michigan

Nov 15, 2016
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Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania

3.54/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
I have a neighbor (out my back door, through my postage-stamp backyard and across a tiny parking lot) which is a modest bottle shop. I am always scouring to see what he might have put out when this appeared as I was buying beer for Hallowe'en on Monday.

From the bottle: The Pride of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin since 1867."; "Six Generations of Family Brewing"; "Rich Toasted Malt - Balanced Maple". Depicted: Seven Bridges Trail.

Confounded screw-top bottles deprive me of even the satisfaction of a Pop! A heavy-handed pour raised a brief two fingers of fizzy, foamy, deep-tan/light-brown head that quickly fizzed its way down to mere wisps. Color was Dark Brown to Very Dark Brown (SRM = > 27, < 34) with NE-quality clarity & garnet highlights. Nose was sugary sweet and the maple syrup/sugar smell was obvious. This smelled like it should go on pancakes! Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but not much beyond it, either. The taste was not as sweet as the nose had led me to expect. Instead, it had a treacle-like almost-sharpness which could have been from either the malts or the hops or both. This actually made it a more pleasant drink than if it had been cloyingly sweet, as the nose suggested. Finish was semi-sweet, lingering with a light smokiness to go along with the earthy flavors of the hops/malt and the sweetness of the maple sugar. It is definitely appropriate for Fall, but one was enough for me.
Nov 02, 2016
 
Rated: 2.65 by Danielr26 from Michigan

Oct 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.71 by NickMunford from Wyoming

Oct 24, 2016
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Reviewed by RJLarse from Washington

2.97/5  rDev -14.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Part of a Fall sampler poured in to a Sam Adams Ultimate Beer Glass.

Pours a walnut brown color, clear with a thin head.

Smell is faint, with a note of a sugar scent.

Taste is long on a sweet (artificial) maple flavor, with a roasted grain flavor along behind and a mild bitter aftertaste.

Mouthfeel is mildly cloying.

Overall an average brew with some artificial flavors. Not enough bitter flavors to balance the sweetness of the maple. It might better as a darker brew. Maple Porter or something like that.
Oct 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.45 by tommy5 from Michigan

Oct 14, 2016
 
Rated: 3.41 by WynnO from Florida

Oct 13, 2016
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Rated by Beerma from Ohio

3.28/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
It was ok! The entire 12 was a disappointment! Too sweet!
Oct 11, 2016
 
Rated: 3.56 by Haybeerman from Colorado

Oct 09, 2016
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Reviewed by Mooslerfitness from Ohio

4/5  rDev +14.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
French toast maple syurp

Warm maple syrup on a thick

Slice of Texas toast good breakfast beer.

Worth a try might be great with some age
Oct 08, 2016
Maple Dunkel from Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
Beer rating: 81 out of 100 with 34 ratings