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| Posted by Nick B. on 2016-09-27 00:41:35 |
| Nah, it's not my hobby! Well, rating beer isn't my hobby, at least, though obsessing over it in other ways is. And that wasn't proper denigration anyway. Das Dunkel (capitalised) is a noun. Non-capitalised dunkel is an adjective, then declinated dunkle/dunkler/dunkles/dunklem/dunklen depending on the case & gender of the noun being modified. Das Bier ist dunkel. Es ist ein dunkles Bier. "Which beer do you want, pale or dark?" "A dark." = "Ein Dunkel". Or also indeed the declinated adjective as a substantive: "Ein Dunkles". People might say one or the other without thinking about it. But BeerAdvocate's list has mixed forms, fostering undesirable inconsistency. Whether you could tell that a beer with dark roasted (or kilned) malts is "dark" or not when comparing it blind with a pale beer -- I have a hard time imagining not being able to smell and taste any sort of difference. I have a hard time imagining not being able to identify "roasty" aroma & flavour in one and not the other. Should be a simple enough exercise to undertake, have J blindfold you. Glad you enjoyed the Kitzmann Rotbier. The new incarnation this last year (spring/summer seasonal) is better than the original incarnation, although also stronger at 4.5% instead of 4%. The two Weißenohe "Green Monkey" beers are a bit odd. They're very (too) strong for "Pils", at 5.9%. And they are extremely dry Pilses, especially at that strength. They're brewed the same, then dry-hopped with different hops. Sadly, they don't use ENOUGH hops to really show a big difference, just a barely noticable one. Why they didn't just brew a normal strength Pils to do this is beyond me. And yes, Weißenohe seem to have a problem getting body in their beers; their Export and another one that escapes me are both husky. Or were in the past when I used to bother with them anyway. Their old Annafestbier was a nice exception to that though, although that was replaced with the whosits-whatsits "homebrewer" group's beer that's brewed at Neder a few years ago. Quite a coup for us to have Sam Smith's bottles at REWE here now, fairly decenly priced for imports too, at <3€ / bottle. The Pale Ale, blended down to 4% with non-alc beer, is a reasonable facsimile of the Old Brewery Bitter for home consumption. I shall console myself for missing the Oktoberfest today with some Taddy Porter tonight. |
| Followups: |
 Lager Categories by Barry on 2016-09-27 06:33:15 |
| Lager Categories by Nick B. on 2016-09-28 00:37:53 |
| Lager Categories by Barry on 2016-09-28 01:08:58 |
| Lager Categories by Nick B. on 2016-09-28 01:56:43 |
| Lager Categories by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-28 03:00:51 |
| Lager Categories by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-28 03:08:34 |
| Lager Categories by Nick B. on 2016-09-28 06:33:51 |
| Lager Categories by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-28 07:01:07 |
| Lager Categories by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-28 14:56:57 |
| Lager Categories by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-28 14:58:42 |
| Lager Categories by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-29 00:20:06 |
| Lager Categories by Nick B. on 2016-09-29 00:53:09 |
| Lager Categories by Barry on 2016-09-29 04:19:06 |
| Lager Categories by TreinJan on 2016-09-29 04:25:39 |
| Lager Categories by Barry on 2016-09-29 05:55:53 |
| Lager Categories by Gunnar H on 2016-09-29 07:08:46 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-29 12:29:20 |
| Lager Categories by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-29 12:30:45 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Gunnar H on 2016-09-29 12:59:02 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Gunnar H on 2016-09-29 13:02:55 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-29 23:47:25 |
| Lager Categories by Nick B. on 2016-09-30 00:25:40 |
| Lager Categories by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-30 00:26:20 |
| Character Map by Nick B. on 2016-09-30 00:27:25 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Nick B. on 2016-09-30 00:34:13 |
| Lager Categories by Nick B. on 2016-09-30 00:35:23 |
| Lager Categories by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-30 01:31:07 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Gunnar H on 2016-09-30 02:39:23 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-30 03:15:35 |
| Lager Categories by Uncle Jimbo on 2016-09-30 03:19:59 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Jürgen Wening on 2016-09-30 03:26:57 |
| Character Map by Barry on 2016-09-30 04:51:59 |
| Die Mass vs Das Maß by Nick B. on 2016-10-01 01:27:01 |
| Lager Categories by Andy H on 2016-10-09 12:44:03 |