Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei Barock Dunkel

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours clear mahogany with a thick, frothy, and rather persistent light tan head. Malty aroma has a strong caramel component and subtle fruity and floral tones. Pleasing flavor rolls caramel, toasted malt, apple, pear, and even a little woody hops across the palate. Body and fizz are not strong, but finish is pleasing. Zehr gut Bier!

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

A deep amber colored beer with a three fingered, foamy textured, light beige head rising above. There's some hang time on the head. A thick frothy ringlet is left. The nose is light, caramel-earthy. Nice roasty, nuttiness mixed in with the caramel in a thick, smooth body. Well done.

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

Clear redish brown with small light brown foam head. Aroma is light caramel with some nut tones. Taste is malty caramel, OK beer. Aftertaste is bit short. (Velp 201305)

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

It pours a transparent very-dark brown with thick light-brown head and copious lacing. An aroma of sweet caramel malts, brown sugar, vanilla, some orange, chocolate malt, and faint spiciness. The mouthfeel is smooth and rich. Flavors of caramel and malts, light chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, vanilla, orange, and some spices. Very good ... sweet!

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

500 ml bottle. Poured in the old original Weltenburger glass a clear ruby brown colored beer with a two fingers beige creamy foamy head that had a long retention. Moderate carbonation. Good lacing. The aroma is strong roasted grainy malts, caramel, coffee, spicy, licorice. The flavour is strong roasted grainy malts, burnt coffee, dark chocolate, hints of dark raisins. Very well balanced. The mouthfeel is crispy and very smooth. This medium bodied beer has a long roasted malty finish. A very nice Dunkel.

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

On tap at the Malt House: Poured a dark mahogany, fairly clear, nice sized head with decent retention. Very suprised how bright and light it was for a dunkel. Quite a bit of caramel malt. A little toasty as well. Finishes rich and smooth.

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

Optimistic (?) Bottle date of March 2009; Sampled December 2007
Pours with a frothy, initially three-finger thick, amber tinged, tan colored head that sit on top of a blackened, concentrated brown colored brew that shows a brilliantly clear, concentrated garnet color when held up to the light. Rich malt aromatics greet my nose upon my first smell of the aroma. Sweet, concentrated / caramelized malt notes, a hint of molasses, touches of chocolate, a substantial toasted note along with hints of lightly burnt toast and browned, crushed soda crackers. The rich malt aromatics almost take on a butterscotch like note as the beer warms up.

Quite light feeling up front, but it picks up some light heft towards the middle and finish. Still this is a very quaffable brew. Malt focused with darker grain flavors of caramelized malt sugar, sweet malt, touches of toasted / almost roasted malt and a really pronounced, browned, soda cracker note in the finish. The finish has a light bitterness that couples with an almost raisin like malt sweetness and a slightly dusty malt character. As the beer warms it picks up a slight herbal note that couples with the light hop bitterness in the finish.

This should really appeal to the malt lovers out there, despite being relatively low in alcohol it has a full, rich, textured malt character to it. Plus it is very light and easy drinking.

Purchased: Plaza Liquors, Tucson AZ

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

FOR A 4.7 ALC ITS PRETTY DARK AND RICH. LACY, BUT THIN HEAD, WHITE AND TARNISHED. ROASTY, CHOCOLATETY. IT HAS A BOLD TASTE, BUT THAT TASTE DOES NOT LAST VERY LONG. I WAS DISILLUSIONED ON THIS ONE. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT BEER, BUT ITS ~ok~

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

Poured a translucent brown-red color, nice off-white head, pretty solid lacing all the way down. The aroma was caramel and very light roasted notes. The flavor was caramel, bready, nuts, light chocolate notes, and a very light smoke/roast undertone. The mouthfeel was full, yet finishes dry, very well attenuated and balanced against a nice malt base. For a style that's never impressed me, this beer was fantastic, perhaps the best dunkel I've ever had. Good stuff, solid numbers for its excellency in style!

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

Great looking beer ruby lights and off white head. Taste was ok lingering chocolate and some hop aftertaste. mouthfeel thin as with many German beers in this style. Would agree about the Alt taste but not the Doppelbock description above.