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Dinkel Acker - Cd-Pils

Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:45 am
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A German version of Heineken but brewed to Germany's purity laws?

Maybe it was the mood I was in but I did not find this to be a stand-out example of a German beer.

Dinkels Cd-Pils poured a clear light yellow with a good, well laced white head.

I would characterize the aroma as earthy and dominated by the malts.

This was a light body beer with flavors that I describe as the Heineken bready-yeast "Skunk"!

Once I let the beer breath a little, the aroma became lighter. The flavor was yeasty with a mild bitter finish.

Since I only had one Dinkel I would not pass a final judgment.

So I would try it again but this is just not on the top of my list.

In general my tastes just do not gravitate toward traditional German lagers/pilsners so this is just not my style of beer to start with. However, this was an easy to drink beer and that I can appreciate.



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Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:56 am
Name: Ronnie | Comment: This is in my opinion one of the top three German Pilsner beers. My only problem is that since Hurricane Katrina, you cannot find this beer in south Louisiana.
Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:00 am
Name: bbm | Comment: my favorite german pils, not available in ohio anymore
Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:45 am
Name: Rcastro@selu.edu URL: www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/rcastro Comment: In Germany each city, even the smaller ones, has it's own local beer---each brewed according to ultra-local tradition with it's own unique qualities, aroma, and taste. Most are quite distinctive, making a beer-tour road trip across Germany an infinitely pleasing experience for the beer lover. One day when traveling on the autoban and fueling up at a BP station, I discovered Dinkel Acker available in aluminum cans out of the outdoor cold drink dispenser right alond side Becks, Warsteiner, and Coca Cola. Hence domestically in Germany, Dinkel Acker is a mass-produced generic brand...kind of like Budweiser or Miller stateside. And like Budweiser or Miller in the US, although Dinkel Acker is consumed by many German beer drinkers at least occassionally, it's not considered by most a beer of first choice. It is a light Chech-style pilsner beer with a smooth but simultaneously bitter yeasty flavor....Great thirst-quencher when cold, but a bit less pleasent towards the bottom of the can; making it different from many other German brews which somehow maintain their excellent flavor bouquet, even when consumed at room temperature.
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