Lobkowicz Baron Premuim Czech Dark Lager

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle: Poured a clear deep brown color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of light banana ester with some roasted malt and black chocolate – very tasty. Taste is very refreshing with sweet black chocolate cake notes are well married with banana ester and light roasted oat finish. Body is about average with good carbonation and low alcohol which makes this a perfect session beer. Very good overall with great drinkability factor.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Appearance is just about as good as it gets for me... as dark as Peter Worrell with a solid thick head. Aroma is tangy and very good. Goes great with a steak and potato and would be the kind of beer I would drink on a special occasion just so you can truly enjoy it. One of my favorites for sure.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

pours a ruby red with a off white head that vanished quickly. smells faintly of malts but not much more than that. taste is pretty bland as well, although the mouthfeel is soft and creamy, very easy drinking beer. its alright, but nothing spectacular!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

The beer pours a dark brown with a quarter inch of thick tan head and the beer appears a ruby red when held up to the light. The aroma is very week but what I could smell was burnt sugar and vinilla coffee. Is this beer made with some smoked malts? I swear I taste a little bit of camp fire. The beer has a malty bitter flavor, with burnt sugar. The after taste turns sweet after the bitter taste. I also find this beer a little to thin and overly carbonated (belch). This aint a bad beer it just aint all that special.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

It poured fairly dark. There was presence of coffee and chocolate in the taste of it. All in all I was happy with it and wouldnt hesitate to buy it again.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This one pours a clear, dark, mahogany with a good head. There’s a bit of sulfur in the nose underneath the dark malts and a bit of nuttiness. In the flavor, it’s cocoa powder, raisins and brown sugar. The flavor is kind of dusty or powdery, but I’m not sure quite how to describe it. It’s ok but nothing special.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Deep chestnut color with a wonderful fluffy cap. Moderate head retention, laces the glass. Aromas of chocolate and sweet bread. Medium bodied...silky mouth feel...mellow, toasty-malty and slightly sweet with some slight fruit tones and a semi-dry charred finish... a very decent Czech dunkel.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Picked this up the day after a mini-pubcrawl, when I ended up spending way-too much money at Hi Times in Costa Mesa. In fact, as odd/scary as this may sound, I don't even remember grabbing this that day. But when all is said and done, I'm not sorry that purchased and sampled this beer.

Label reads "Patron of this beer is Ladislav III, of Lobkowicz, a prominent politician and chamberlain of Austrian emperor Ferdinand I". Well, good ol' Ladislav III may be a chamberlain(?) to a figurehead emperor, but at least it seems he has decent taste in beer. This isn't half-bad.

Caramel notes throughout, but not so much so as to make the beer sweet and cloying. Nice subdued chocolate hints in the nose and mouth. Finish is a little drying, and there are some slight bitter-coffee notes in the aftertaste, but nothing that overly detracts from the beer's reasonably refreshing character.

Like other folks have mentioned, I think this goes great after a long day in the Summer in the Desert. For the price, it's worth a try, me'thinks.
//TB

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Dark brown color , small head. Slightly roasted malts, light tasting lager. Some hoppyness. Very mild taste, slightly malty. Mouthfeel is neutral, slightly malty. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is a little malty, slightly neutral.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Poured with a cloudy gold colour and an insignificant head. Aroma was somewhat malty, along with a hint of perhaps chocolate(?) and this was replicated in the taste. A nice beer.