Schwarze
Westerwald Brauerei H. Schneider

Pours a clean hazelnut color, with a huge froth head, revealing a ton of bubbles.

Smells of toasty malts with a flowery quality to them, coated by toffee.

Has a lower carbonation, resulting in a thin, yet refreshing mouthfeel, with an effervescent finish to it.

Tastes of toffee coated leaves anong toast, which leans more on the malts than on the hops. During the finish though, a dry hop bitterness unfolds, featuring again a noble herbal quality, with the malts producing more toffee, tied together by a lactic peak. Finishes clean and refreshing, with a mix of minerals and slowly fading hops remaining on the tongue.

Don't recognize this as a Pils, as it gets advertised on the neck of the bottle, while it certainly convinces as a light bodied, heavier hopped Dunkel. The malts define the taste from the beginning, with hops becoming apparent during the finish, adding a synergetic dryness to the toasty malts.