St. Pauli Girl Special Dark

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

Green bottle of death again. Pours a perfectly clear dark brown with a one finger off white head that goes away at a snails pace. Decent ammount of carbonation. Aroma is slightly skunked with hints of breads and malts. Taste is skunked with nothing to tell it is a dark lager. Almost like they took regular St. Pauli Girl and dumped a shit ton of food coloring into it. A tad bit more creamy but that is it. Not great.

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

A dark brown clear beer that has a slight taste of sweetness of malt. There is a noticeable hint of bitterness but goes away after the second drink. Went well with a steak dinner and a after meal cigar.

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

Sampled from bottle. Grassy-sulfurous lager yeast aroma. Balanced towards bitter with a clean finish. Hint of Munich. Medium-light body an Medium-high carbonation. Decent lager.

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

Pours cola brown producing a small head that dissipates quickly leaving a ring of foam with very little lacing remaining. The aroma is mostly roasted malt, musky, some hop presence. The taste is malt and hops in the mouth, tangy swallow, finishes clean. The mouthfeel is thin, smooth, mild carbonation. This is a typical mass-market German dark lager. There's nothing remarkable about it. It's a decent brew but that's all.

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

It pours a very dark-brown with a thick light-tan head and some lacing. An aroma of roasted malts, tobacco, hops, coffee, oranges, dark breads, and light spices. The mouthfeel is smooth but sort of thin. Flavors of roasted malts, hops, oranges, coffee, light tobacco, dark breads, and spices. Not the best, but it is good.

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

I tried this one a few years back and never rated it so I picked it up again in a supermarket mixed sixer. It wasn't as good as I remembered, not that it was great before. Anyway the aroma was mostly of metallic tinged malt, unfortunatley so was the taste, luckily it faded away as it warmed and the taste improved slightly. Deep brown body with very little head or lace, mouthfeel was average. Overall it wasn't too bad, wasn't too good either.

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

Clear dark brown/ruby color. Some burnt orange highlights around the edges. Off white head that was non-existent and left little to no lacing. The color is not horrendous. Some dark, slightly toasted grain. The grain presence is not overly astringent. Some dry wheat or breadiness is present also. Even getting a "tea" aroma. A ain, some toasted grain comes out first with the flavor. A touch of tobacco flavoring and some dark dry malt. Medium to light mouthfeel that was mostly dry and rather smooth. Put some on the palate, but not a whole, whole lot. Well... I do like this better than the St. Pauli Girl Lager. This would be ok on those Fall afternoons. Probably won't make a special trip for this beer, but I can drink it. Mostly average to slightly below average in my opinion.

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

Poured into a glass from a 12 oz. bottle. The pour is a deep brown with ruddy hues. An off-white head settles quickly into a thick film and leaves decent lacing. The dominant aroma is of sweet malts and not much else. The taste was again mostly of sweet notes with some toffee and just a hint of nuts. There is only a slight bitterness near the end. Mouthfeel is medium-bodied with a low amount of carbonation. Drinkability is okay; the slightly dry finish can become tiring. Initially, the beer has a slightly skunky nose. After sitting out of the bottle for about twenty minutes, that aroma is gone, and this becomes a much better beer. However, it isn't something I will make a staple, but I might have one once a year.

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

Sometimes you have no choice but to buy beer from a supermarket or convenience store with a limited selection. I always go for dark beers in these hard times, as they offer the most taste. Guinness, Modelo Negra, Heineken Dark, and this - St. Pauli Girl Special Dark. It's good enough. I have no complaints about its price/ABV/pleasure ratio. It doesn't send me to the moon like a good dopplebock or imperial stout, but it'll do.

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

Pours a nice clear mahogany with a decent sized, but not very persistent, tan head. Aroma is malty with just a hint of molasses, crisp like a typical lager aroma. Flavor is fairly smooth, malty with some hop bitterness and a subtle undertone of molasses or caramel. Texture is rather smooth, and it does dance a little on the tongue.