Beck's Dark

Beck's Dark

Beck’s Dark is rich and smooth with a lingering, slightly sweet aftertaste. The deep ebony color is the result of specially roasting the barley malt. Unlike dark ales, Beck’s Dark is a bottom-fermented lager which creates a robust flavor and full body while retaining the refreshing properties of a lager beer.
2.6
777 reviews
St. Louis, United States

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2.8 I prefer this over the regular Beck’s. It has more of a dark brown appearance, sort of like a porter. More flavor, mainly of chocolate malts and caramel.... sweeter than the regular. Seems a bit smoother and crisper too. Aroma is slightly skunky, but the taste makes up for it. Whenever at a restaurant ordering and they say they have Beck’s, if that’s the best they have, I always ask if they have Beck’s Dark. They usually won’t say off the bat, but worth asking in case they carry the dark.
2.6 Dark amber/cider color; Medium body; Aroma of malt, & some spice; Flavor of roasted malt, caramel, and hops; Finish is slightly bitter; Decent macro dunkel.
2.6 Bottle at my in-laws on Christmas day poured into a glass, clear dark brown color with white head. Aroma of pale malt sweetness, grainy, semi-metallic, minimal light roast and some caramel. Taste adds some notes of cereal, faint chocolate and light hop balance. Light body, moderate carbonation, somewhat slick with faint roast finish. Not bad for a macro.
2.0 Strongly resembles a Coca-Cola. Dark translucent red with a rapidly dissipating head with large bubbles rather than foamy. Smell like many light american lagers with a corn, wheat, and spruce hops. The malts are much more present in the taste than the aroma. Medium malts and cereal. Lightly sweet and moderately bitter. Very watery texture.
2.3 Pours dark translucent mahogany with an off white head. Aroma is grainy and sweet. Taste is mostly malt and grain with a slight hint of caramel. Not much to like about this beer.
2.7 Gorgeous looking beverage that does not deliver on anything else. Distinct malty backbone but the rest is the cheapest of ingredients. You’ve done it again InBev.
3.8 Smooth Dinkel style. Not overly bitter or hopped. Makes a nice easy drinking beer.
2.2 "drinkable, but ultimately substandard brew. WAYYYYY better than the "regular" stuff...more flavor, didn’t smellas bad, etc...but not something i’d get again."
2.8 There was nothing else crafty on the menu, so went with this lager. The taste is smooth but nothing to repeat the selection again.
1.1 Another dud, dark but with properties of a lager that is pretty sweat although has this weird oily metallic taste but thats only if you get past the skunk smell when opening. Thought a dunkel needed decoction mashing where a portion of the grains are boiled and returned to the mash.? The term Dunkel means Dark however Tmav’y Czech or Slovak which is weird for a Bremen Germany brew.
2.8 Bottle, deep brown pour with a white head, slightly sweet with roasted malt and caramel but not much better than the light Beck’s.
3.4 Nice and strange for this brewery. The style almost same as the Bavarian ones although it is known for it’s pilsners.
3.1 12oz bottle at a greek resturant. Opaque black body topped with a thick, beige creamy head. Good malty aroma with light roasty hints. Malty/hoppy taste is well balanced. It carries roasty notes and ends with a decent bitter/roasty finish.
3.0 Bottle. Pours brown, with a off white head. Aroma is roasted malt and caramel. Flavor is slightly roasted malt, some sugar, and a little bit of hops. Not bad and easy drinking.
2.1 Has some redeeming qualities, but overall not worth your time. Starts with some chocolate, toffee and dark cherry flavors, but is upended by a bitter, metallic taste that reminds me of a dirty penny. Good carbonation but much to thin to handle the flavors.
2.7 Bottle on a little pontoon boat cruise watching Epcott’s fireworks show. Medium amber-brown in color and fairly thin. Small eggshell head. Aroma of roasted malts, metal, caramel, and toffee. The taste is similar with a decent malty bite. Medium body, light carbonation. Finish of caramel and toffee. Actually not too bad.
2.9 Medium brown, clear, beige head. Aroma of pilsner malt, tiny hint of cocoa. Flavor: grainy pilsner malt with a corn-like quality followed by a grainy/biscuity dryness, touch of baker’s chocolate, a little metallic hint in there. I recall having better bottles than this particular one, it might be a little old.
1.6 Wow this stuff is bad. Poured a lighter brown with a beige head. Aroma was just straigh skunk and nothing else. Flavor was skunk and mild toast/roast. Not surprised though.
3.0 Bottle at Oktoberfest. Pours a deep clear dark brown to black with a thin to medium sized white head. Roast and a little bit of cocoa on the nose. Medium-bodied a little bit of chocolate touch of malt and caramel. Cocoa chocolate a touch of coffee into a bit of bitterness and grain on the finish.
2.2 DATE TASTED: October 12, 2013 ... GLASSWARE: Warsteiner pokal... OCCASION: celebrating PSU’s unBILLeivable comeback against Michigan--and my son’s fifth birthday... APPEARANCE: "dark" velvet black as night body with a brownish roadside snake-colored head; lacing is nonexistent, with a random streak or spot... AROMA: classic Beck’s ping/tang hops with a doughy funky roundness; a "dirtier" version of the pilsner...PALATE: slick and oily; lightly bodied with subtle activity at the teeth...TASTE: bready, doughy and slightly malty; light hops do not really add balance or memorability...OVERALL: on the plus side, sessionable and autumnal; on the negative, almost indistinguishable from the Oktoberfest, save the presence of extra doughy malts...
1.8 Bottle: Mahogany brown with a slight ruby tint; good clarity given the dark hue. Creamy, light-tan head leaves decent lacing during its decent. Aroma is weak, astringent metallic notes, toasted caramel malt, light florals, and not much else. Taste is metallic at first as well but mellows with time. Toasted malt & grains with light caramel and toffee... very light. Some back end floral bitterness, musty. Sharp and nearly astringent. Some finishing lager yeast. A pretty poor take on the style, really.
2.0 Aroma: A little skunky (this stuff sits around long enough to get skunked?) with some toast and a bit of caramel. Appearance: Dark brown with a thin bone coloured head. Flavor: Mostly toast up front and throughout, but very lightly so; there’s a rather unpleasant sweet tang toward the finish- like watered down caramel. Palate: Medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation, abrupt finish. Overall: I didn’t want to dislike this so much, as I think people bash these InBev products without a second thought, but this was truly a low-rent gloss of a Dunkel, and not worthy of the name.
2.0 Pours a dark translucent brown with a white head. Nose is nondescript. Palate is slight roasted barley. There is no "slightly sweet aftertaste" as the propaganda states. Once again, this rendition of a good German beer is bastardized by brewing it in he USA. Hey, A-B/InBev, you cannot trade on reputation for long when the quality is gone.
2.6 There's a tad bit if complexity of this that I like, but maybe that's just compared to all the other Budweiser products I've had.
2.3 Dark brown pour, big foamy head. Vaguely malty aroma: nice roastiness but a whole lotta adjunct. Flavor is very watery but has light roasty notes. Not offensive but just not very good.
2.0 Taste has significantly fallen since InBev took control of this one. At one point it had a decent aroma and taste, but now it is just bland. Not worth drinking. Rating 5 years ago would have been significantly higher.
3.1 12oz bottle - pours amber with offwhite head and decent lacing for a frosted pint glass. Nose is bready caramel. Flavor adds toast. Mildly sweet. Way too cold.
1.0 I had this beer about 15 months’ ago. It was outstanding! Great aroma, superb taste - truly a fine German beer. So, a month or so after, I bought a case. Terrible decision. It was not good at all. Found out that the good tasting beer was the last before Imbev got a hold of it. What a shame. Looks to be another Lowenbrau story in the Budweiser mold.
2.6 Green bottle..... surprisingly not skunked. Toasty sweet tea-like malt aroma. Chestnut with a large creamy beige head. Slightly sweet, toasty malt flavor. Light body, moderate carbonation.
2.3 Pours dark brown, but nearly clear....short tan head. Aroma is slightly skunked, roast malt. Caramel malt, roast flavor...a little chocolate. Skunky staleness.... Maybe decent if fresh.