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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.
 
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                     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