Jacobsen Original Dark Lager

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

OK. Wanted to do both Jacobsen in one night... but the other kind of got me in a unsober mood. So, the night after, I try this one. Pours a clear copper colour with a small head, that does not last long, and only leaves a bit a lace. The carbonation is minimal, with a little bubble popping here and there. Smells like dark fruits, like plums with some bread and butter. The taste of this one is much better than their Saaz Blonde, with some roasted and caramel malts, mild nuts, and well... that's about it.

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

Poured into a pilsner glass from a 750 ml bottle. The pour is a dark amber with a decent off-white head. The head is gone quickly, and there is a little lacing. The nose contains toffee, bread, sweet fruit and some grassiness. The taste is buttery, bready and sweet (helped by the use of glucose syrup). A mild bitterness is present on the finish. Mouthfeel is creamy with low carbonation. Drinkability suffers because of the sweetness; it's hard for me to drink 750 ml. Overall, I am glad I tried it (and at a lower price than the $7.99 I saw in one store!), but I am unlikely to buy it again.

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

Nice looking bottle. I'd not been aware of this brand until stumbling across it in my local BCLDB store. Poured a smallish tan head to cap an attractive clear and dark copper body. Aroma was indistinct, but quite alright. Taste was pleasant, with some malts, and the mouth was comfortable. Nice beer; I could drink more of these.

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

A murky/muddled chestnut brown pour with a thin tan head and good splotchy lacing. Sugary cereal aroma with caramel and grass. Soft and creamy on the palate with a moderate malt body. Good tasty flavor of molasses and caramel. Grainy cereal backed by a very light peaty smoke effect. Nutty with a sharp grassy bite. Surprisingly good.

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

500ml bottle Pours a brilliant red-amber lager in the glass with a 1 finger frothy cap which goes to a surface foam that laces the glass well...one would think this was a Vienna by the color. Aromas are pungent: red vienna malts with some raisin/grape skin tones, light coffee notes from black malt husks and a light waft of sweetness. Flavor is where this shines...it crosses the line between a dunkel and a bock chewy dunkel malting with bock dark fruits and some nut and earthy tones mixing with the twiggy-woody flavors of the Hersbruckers...rich rounded body with a soft mouth feel ...dries up cleanly in the finish some black malt astringence...then a bready sweet aftertaste. Avery drinkable and satisfying dark lager...tasty and very primal yet has some subtle complexity. I like this one very much and wish it was available here year long.

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

Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Huge caramellish malts and apple in aroma. Flavour is mainly a malt and acidic barley bomb. Slight hints of caramel, metal, ashes and dark fruits. A quite nice surprise compared to what I awaited.

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

Pours a chill hazed reddish brown, but it has an excellent head. There’s not a lot of hop aroma and I really prefer my lagers to have a nice crisp noble hop quality. There is a light maltiness, although the sweetness lacks the backup of the hops. Insipid.

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

Well, this will be my second product from Jacobsen; brought to you by Carlsberg. The aroma is very malty and very bready with hints of baked bread, raisins, and some ripened grapes and is very sweet which I hope doesn't carry over to the mouthfeel and flavor. The appearance is a reddish orange to some copper when held to the light with a medium-sized head on top that only diminishes slowly to a light, off-white tan and leaves lacing on the glass. The mouthfeel is light-bodied and smooth with huge sweet malt with not much in the way of balance of anything else and has a palate that is wet-like and decent. The flavor is sweet, malty, raisiny, and a bit salty with an aftertaste that brings dark fig and plum as well some sugar and a finish that is clean, wet-like, and average but is a bit on the sweet side and is a bit astringent. Overall, not a bad offering and I am going to drink this like I am a drinking an Oktoberfest/Marzen-style because it is a bit similar; decent stuff here...

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

My 2nd go around with a Jacobsen beer. And much like the first, this was...bleh. Overly sweet on the palate, minimally malty in the aroma. Everything was just so underwhelming, except for the taste which was just too sweet. It was drinkable, but just barely.

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

Tried this beer on tap at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. Quite good. Decent malt, great frothy head, not too carbonated, but zinged nicely nonetheless. Highly recommended draught, though the 5+ abv is a bit of a shocker on an empty stomach. Very expensive in the bottle.