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Beer Reviews
Munich Dunkel
Frankenmuth BreweryFrankenmuth, MI
USA
http://www.frankenmuthbrewery.com
Style: Dunkel
ABV: 5.1%
Rings’s Rating:





Comments:
Since the tornado destroyed the facility, there have been a number of attempts to reopen, restart and rebuild the place, including a contracting effort with the old Evansville Brewing Company, a short-lived brewpub (which could not distribute), and an effort by renowned American Weihenstephan Diplom-Braumeister Eric Warner, later of Flying Dog Brewery, who wrote the Classic Beer Style Series German Wheat Beer in 1992.
Last year, the place finally reopened as a microbrewery (which means they can distribute under Michigan law) concentrating on German beers. In my view, this is a welcome change from most craft brewers, who pretty much focus on ales, usually English style or occasionally Belgian.
I had a chance to taste a few of their brews at the Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival in February, which were all very good. Yesterday, I had a chance to sit down with a full pint of Munich Dunkel, the lager style that made Munich famous.
Dark in color, it looks like any other porter or stout but with a cleaner aroma and mouth feel and a little less body that one would expect to find in a typical ale. It has a nice soft chocolate nose and drinks rather easy. Theres a light Hallertau hop presence to clean up the maltiness. Stylistically, its actually a little thicker than a typical dunkel would be, but this may be due to a bump in the chocolate malt to compensate for North American six row grains.
For me, this is actually a very nice session beer and my bias would rate this a little higher personally than I would on the Dork scale, because this is one of my favorite styles. That said, while very good, its not a perfect effort and probably not as good as the original Atwater Dunkel, back when they were importing grains in 1997-98 under their original brewmaster.
Drei maß or three mugs for you Anglos.
Reviewed by Rings on April 5, 2011.
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