Volkan Santorini Black
Santorini Black Wheat Lager (with honey and citron).
We condition the water for the beer with our proprietary Santorini basalt "Lava rock filter" and then blend the beer with flavourful ingredients of exotic hops, fragrant Santorini honey and Citrus Medica-a rare fruit brought to Greece from Persia by the army of Alexander the Great.
For each 1€ of profit, Volkan will help reduce the Greek National debt by 50 eurocent.
We condition the water for the beer with our proprietary Santorini basalt "Lava rock filter" and then blend the beer with flavourful ingredients of exotic hops, fragrant Santorini honey and Citrus Medica-a rare fruit brought to Greece from Persia by the army of Alexander the Great.
For each 1€ of profit, Volkan will help reduce the Greek National debt by 50 eurocent.
2.9
165 reviews
Fira Santorini, Greece
Community reviews
The taste is somewhat sweet compared to the common dark lager beers. First, the taste of dark chocolate hits slowly to cocoa beans and coffee. In the taste there is also a little honey and notes of rye.
A very dark brown-bodied beer with a frothy, decently lasting light brown head. Nose has aromas of citrus fruits, roasted malts and syrup. Fairly sweet flavor with a mildly roasty bitter finish. High carbonation and light mouthfeel. Decent, although somewhat odd combination of flavors and beer styles.
0,33 l bottle from a supermarket on the greece island of Kos. A darkest red brown to nearly in the glass. Small beige head. Toasted malty smell. Taste starts malty, decent hop on the background. Low coffee and caramell. Wheat elements and also some sweetness and hints of citrus. Not bad.
Bottle sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Thanks Dror. Deep brownish-copper with beige head. The aroma has notes of roast, metallic, grains and minerals. The flavor is sweet and mild bitter with notes of roast, some honey, grains, minerals and some ash. Light to medium-bodied.
Bottle at a tasting, thanks Dror. Clear dark amber. Caramel and light roast aromas. Sweet, caramel, metalic, yeasty flavors. Medium-bodied, sticky.
Bottle 33 cl. Dark brown with bronze color, yellowish foam. Aroma: caramel, burnt, slightly coffee, a little honey and sweets. Taste: sweet, honey, caramel, slightly citrus, light bitter finish.
Bottle. Deep amber color with a medium thin frothy beige head. Aroma of bread and caramel. Dry taste with some initial sweetness. A bit oily feel. Medium thin body.
Black/dark brown color with a reddish hue and beige creamy head. Medium body, soft carbonation, no lacing. Aroma of dust, roast, caramel, ash, honey and some metallic scents. Taste of malts, wheat, grains, caramel, mild yeast, some honey and watery coffee. Decent.
May 2018 - 330ml bottle on the balcony in Oia watching the sunset. As 'Volkan Santorini Black', a 'wheat lager', 5%, BB March 2019, 'lava rock filtered', brewed with Santorinian honey and citrus medica leaf. Pours a cola black with an orange hue, sparkling with a foamy light brown head. Aroma is dark honey, dark chocolate digestives, some milk chocolate, earthy dark biscuits mostly. Body is light and frothy with tingly carbonation. A little thin bodied. Taste is clean and earthy, biscuit, dusty, touches of honey with a metallic finish. Not much flavour to it but it's OK. (6-4-5-3-13=3.1)
Bottle from an Athens supermarket. Decent pour, offwhite head and a very dark ruby body. Odd aroma of tar and fake syrup, usually I like that kind of thing but here it comes across as unbalanced. Flavour is soft coffee, some brownie. Watery finish. Not particularily bad but I see potential here that hasn't been reached.
Bottle, picked up at a random supermarket in Kolonaki. First of all, full marks for the narrative here. A proprietary lava rock filter? Santorini honey? A citrus fruit involving Alexander the Great? Make Greece debt free? Maybe Schäuble needs to get a few of these down his neck...I need a beer just to calm down after reading the label. Claims to be a black wheat lager with honey and citrus medica...hmmm, a first for me even without the hyperbole. It’s a kind of reddish dark brown colour. Definite sweetish tone to the malts, could be honey, hopefully not caramel colouring. Just a hint of that citrus leaf. Just enough hops to stop it being cloying. Interesting; against all the odds I quite like it.
19/12/2017 - 33 cl bottle in a restaurant in Dock's, Brussels.
Dark brown to black with fading tanned head. Nose is thin wheat, hint of roast. Taste is a tad watery, dark malt, coffee.
330ml bottle (BB Apr 2018): brought back from the Greek island of Lefkada by me to share with friends. Opened on 30th Oct 2017 during a monthly beer share evening in Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Black body, tanned head. Sadly this was broached after two 'big hitters' and it's subtleties were not very evident and it appeared a little bland and weak, so it suffered some unkind comments around the table. I actually liked it, even if there was a slight citrusy aroma. The taste was malt/wheat first with a light honey note or two, the finish got a little bitter compared to the initial taste. Greek beers in general are getting better, not just light lagers anymore.
330ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie Oct 17 Part 2, courtesy of Jeremy. Many thanks! Pours dark brown, small off-white head. Curious fruity citrus aroma. Taste is interesting, some herbal elements with faint honey-like sweetness, some cereal grain. Ok dunkel with some interesting herbal, fruity undertones.
Bottle. Pours slightly hazy reddish brown with large foamy beige head, faint caramel malt aroma, high carbonation, sweetish caramel malt taste, bit of a metallic tinge, thin body, abrupt finish. Nothing special.
Dark brown color, small beige head. Aroma of caramel, roasted malt, dark fruits, hint of ash, citrus. Sweet lightly dry taste, light bitterness in finish and aftertaste. Thin to medium body and average carbonation. Fine dark lager.
330ml bottle at the Ilios Cafe in Santorini Old Port for 5.00euro Very good.
Bottle shared by Goedele, thanks dear! One of several beers from this brewery on the famous volcanic island of Santorini - the few craft breweries of which are at the forefront of the new (still very modest but fastly growing) Greek beer movement. Apparently a dark lager, so a 'generalization' of the original M�nchener Dunkel in a sense, flavoured with local honey and citron, the latter being an essential oil made from a specific, thick-skinned kind of citrus fruit. Thick, papery lacing, off-white, medium thick head, clear and translucent dark caramel-bronze robe. Aroma of hard butterscotch candy, coffee beans, burnt toast, some vague honey indeed, soggy breakfast cereals, something ethereal not unlike black tea or dried flowers (probably representing the citron - but I do not get a lot of citrus notes, and I'm in doubt as to whether this is a good thing in this case or not), muesli, damp kitchen towel, peanuts. Fairly neutral, very obviously lager-like onset, sweetish graininess with a dry cookie-like character to it, the sweetness probably related to the added honey; medium carbo, smooth and rather thinnish, slick and soapy mouthfeel. Caramelly, almost vaguely treacle-like sweetness lingers but gets accompanied by a softly and subtly bittering coffeeish touch in the end, but it is the underlying cereally and sweetish graininess that remains - as in a standard pale lager, which probably served as the basis of this beer. Pale lager made interesting with darkening agents (syrup?) and notes of citron and honey indeed, maybe this kind of 'pimping' would have worked out better in a top-fermented beer?
330 ml bottle, thanks to Holmen1. ABV is 5%. Dark mahogany colour, huge beige head. Aroma of lightly roasted malts, dust and ashes, notes of burnt breadcrumbs. Dry flavour of roast malts and burnt breadcrumbs, no wheaty character, only a hint of honey, can't detect the citrus medica.
Share at a tasting, clear quite dark brown color with orange hues, small creamy head, mineral and dark bread aroma with a hint of honey, flavor of honey, cardboard and stale grains. Feels old and not too good.
Quite dark color with a fine tan head. Ok intensity in the aroma. Could feel the volcano. Medium body and a fine carbonation level. Balanced sweetness. Unusual flavor. Felt like some volcano ash had entered this beer. Also some dark malt, fruity and toffee.
[Bottle Gry brought with her from Crete, Greece]
Dark brown colour with small off white foam. Aromas of smooth cocoa, chocolate, coal with milky notes and touch of light coffee. Palate, light-ish body with thin texture leaving very watery finish. Taste, Sweet of cocoa, dark malts and with a light touch of coffee beans. Rather nice light refreshing dark lager and interesting to try.
330ml bottle at Black Lothus. Clear dark brown body, beige head some of it remaining throughout. Spotty lacing. Roasted brown malty nose. Honeyed brow malty nose, hints of nuts and bred. Rounded roasted malty ending, mid-sweet. Pretty alright. (Rethymnon 10.06.2017).
Bottle shared at a tasting at Lior D’s place. Bought at Beer Shop Greece, Athens, February 2017. Clear dark brown with a thick head. Very roasty aroma, a little floral with notes of orange peel. Roasty, malty and bitter taste with some ash. Medium body, long, roasty finish, some coffee, quite fizzy.
Not exactly a dunkel but still quite nice, especially for Greece. Promised honey and citrus are extremely subtle but a nice roastiness permeates.
33cl bottle. Hazed amber pour. Aroma is irish ale yeast, caramel, sherry, oxidized. Flavor is acidic and a touch smoky, again english ale yeast, savory, herb, bad. Greece is FUCKED.
Bottle sample at a tasting at Lior D’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma of malt, caramel, roast, a bit of nuts. Sweet malty flavor, with caramel, nuts, roast, citric note. Medium-bodied.
At Lior’s Place, pours brown with a beige head, aroma of chocolate, nuts, caramel, flavor of chocolate roasted malt, caramel, acidity, medium bodied
Aus der Flasche getrunken (Supermarktkauf in Piräus). Rotbraun mit weißer Schaumkrone. Kaum Nase. Interessantes Malzaroma.
Jet black. Slightly off-white head. Aroma is toast and charcoal. Taste is coffee and cocoa, but the finish is ruined by this brewery’s bizarre addiction to throwing honey at everything.