Okocim Palone

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

A decent beer, and the best at our tasting, but a little overrated here at 98/93! Light roast and a little caramel sweetness with a faint hop bitterness on the back end. Definitely a step up from their yellow stuff, but no way is it elite.

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

Sampled on 12/28/2008. This dunkel pours a deep amber brown color from a 50cl bottle. Small to medium sized tan foamy head, with decent retention. The aroma is caramel malts, bready and semi sweet. A light to medium bodied dunkel. The malts are caramel and bready, semi sweet. The hops are earthy. Seems a little light bodied and a touch watery, although the malt flavors are good. Lively carbonation. Semi sweet chocolate finish. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

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

Pours a dark dunkel brown with a small off white head. Lightly roasted nuts with a subtle peppery character, smooth milk chocolate finish, soft hop finish.

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

Pours a dark garnet color nice lookin head. First sip, chocolatey mellow roast gave me a double take, nice....... very smooth. Nice woodsy roast, its all about that Fire brewing eh! ... Finding some flavors of prunes, bubblegum, cola. Very mellow and creamy - crisp. A bit of Bitter to balance.... Some subtle leathery notes and maple too. Good beer, great dunkel lager yeah

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

Dark brown brew that produced a small ammount of tan head that faded quickly. Nice aroma albiet to mild. Lightly toasted dark malts, possible smoke (can't convince myself it's there), maybe I'm finding the hidden smell of grape gum. This would taste much better if not hampered by excessive bitterness for the style. Still, highly drinkable. Fairly sweet and a shit load of toasted malts (mild overall). i may be confusing what I think is notable alcohol during every sip with the hops...go figure. Weak nuttiness? Just over medium bodied. The carbonation that at first sip gave me the 'pop' impression has rounded out nicely now and is quite good and soft. Good malt middle and finish that takes a bit of a hit with the obvious excessive bitterness. I could drink this all night despite the impression that I didn't like it. If you really want to enjoy this let it warm considerably...more than usual. Thanks for the beer, bro.

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

Beer appears to be dark brown and can only be seen through when held up the light, I did a crappy pour and ended up with a four inch high cap that won’t go away and dam is it noisy I can hear it from five feet away. Wow what a freaking awesome aroma I’m completely surprised, coffee and very rich smooth malts a touch of chocolate, the aroma is mild making me smell it harder, this is just pure roasted malt goodness. This brew is tasty very tasty , rich and smooth roasted malts the flavor is sweet but is balanced perfectly with a touch of bitter coffee. So complex with every sip I taste something new, milk chocolate, berries, some metallic qualities, slight dirt. Simply shocked about how good this brew was, dammit to bad it’s a thirteen hour drive away from where I picked this up. This is just so complex, smooth and delicious my marks for this seem so over the top but they are what they are its plain fawking awesome. This is the best product to come out of Poland since the screen door on the submarine.

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

interesting! very dark redish brown with a foam like head~ for 5.5% i didnt think it could be so dark. very delicious though!~ has a rambunksious flavor just filling my mouth so many little different things~ carmel, wheat, hey, grapes, chocolate, mocha, brown suger, green grass, barley, hops, malt, i could go on and on. the carbanation is just right, not over the top!~ clean, goes down well.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Dark ruby red, brownish foamy head, lacing. Not any big aroma, but some sweetness and malt an be found. Sweet caramellish flavour with hints of toffee and malt. Also weak dark chocolate in finish and aftertaste.

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

Now this is much more interesting. Head and shoulders above the "Harnas, Polish Highlander" nonsense I tried prior to this one.

In short, this may be considered to be an Euro Dark Lager. But really? It's more of a hybrid Smoked Lager/Baltic Porter in my mind (and my taste buds). A "Fire-Brewed Dark Lager", as per the label? Yeah, I can buy off on that.

Very nice aroma and body to this one. The mouthfeel reminds that you're drinking a *beer*, not fizzy carbonated yellow-ish alcoholic water. Enough girth to matter, as I'm apt to say.

The smokiness, while more perceived than actual, I imagine, calms down once this beer is in your mouth, letting the malty Porter-ish aspects take charge of the situation.

Perhaps some of the dryness/astrigency in the middle and the backend can be a bit much sometimes, but I find myself not really finding much fault with these faults, as it were.

A rather interesting beer, from a brewery that was once left-for-dead (having been swallowed up by Danish mega-brewer Carlsberg). Who would have thought that such a take-over would kick Okocim in the butt to produce something besides yet another "fairly-well-made-yet-also-utterly-boring-Euro-Pale-Lager", eh?

A weird beer, by Eastern European Beer Standards..., but different enough to be worth investigating. I thought it was rather likeable, warts and all...!

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//TB

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

Sampled both from bottle and tap - not much difference.
Some head 'residue', a muddy brown with amber highlights when held to the light. A rather pleasent aroma, nice nose on this one. Some smokey chocolat - darker malts well present. Light bodied but quite decent tasting for a dunkel lager. A little watery maybe but I think it's just part of this style to not be too robust. Nice malt featured in the back part of the mouth. Not much aftertaste or finish, but more taste as far as in terms of standard lagers - like a refreshing taste. This, I found, to be perhaps a little artificial at times, very caramelly malt but reminds me of "purple freezies" in being more of an artificial flavour. I think perhaps it's the amber malt leaving me with this feeling. That aside, this is a good one; not bad at all. Tasty.