Dovetail appreciation thread

The approach taken here is balanced, quite complex, and a bit unorthodox given the toasty aroma and correspondences of dark, roasted/grainy malts, caramelized nuts, cocoa, faint mild fruit, tea leaves, and a spiced hop bite with a smoked circumference

Feel is soft, creamy, and semi-sweet, but with that delicate, light, clean lager finish across a grassy, deep-rooted terrain. Nonetheless, layered malt involvedness is at play to the openness of rye, smoked brisket, blackened toast/pumpernickel, dark-fruited chocolate, and slight creamed coffee

Aroma opens with more burnt wood, black licorice, and a stronger presence of dark fruit obscurities: raisins, figs...Aroma is quite the attention-grabber, and this 750ml leaves plenty of room for exploration amongst the lovely malt convolutions





...Hopefully a new staple to the rotation/roster

 

Well this looks awesome...

 

Thanks! I wrote this recipe after spending an afternoon drinking dark lager at U Fleku in Prague, and then spending subsequent others at Lokal, where they pour unfiltered and unpasteurized Kozel. U Fleku's was on the sweeter side, while the Kozel has more of a subtle roast -- I wanted to try to toe the line between the two.

 

Do you anticipate keeping it around for the time being and seasonally/in rotation?

 

No plans for this in cans at the moment -- but we do have an exciting can plan in place for this year! -- hopefully, this will become a seasonal, however.

 

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great job. It was awesome

 

Stopped in last night to try the new Czech dark and it was indeed very good.

 

The Helles Lager is fantastic! Saw the 4-pack in my local beer store and I wanted to try a Dovetail beer but now I want to try them all! These cans will be in the cooler this year!

 

Its so nice not having to rush to pick these up. Sat at my local shop for weeks. I actually preferred the Vienna but both were such good representation of the style.

 

Framboise is really tasty. Very intense raspberry sourness, though it finishes nice and dry with some lingering oak to balance it out.

Fresh batch of Pilsner is tasting great too, I heard a rumor that it might be next in line for canning... Paging @OleWorm

 

agreed- the Framboise was excellent IMO. Color is UNREAL.

 

Yeah, but is it hazy???

 

you be the judge!

 

Oops, just saw this. No, Hefeweizen is next -- we're a little way out from that, though.

 

Cool, thanks for clarifying that! So there’s a new canning line, will that eventually allow for more small batch canning runs?

 

Yep! Did a small-batch test run of Rauchbier and it is

 

It looks like watered down Rose de Gambrinus.

 

I stopped in on the 4th to have the Framboise (I liked it) and enjoyed a lager and maibock as well. I see 2019 Kriek is now on draft so I guess I’ll Be making another trip soon haha