Friday, 13 March 2015

Riegele Bier Manufaktor - Ator 20

Introducing the Riegele Bier Manufaktur Ator 20.
The company that produces this beer, the Riegele Bier Manufaktur, claims to have been in existence since the 1300s. So this is not one of the upstart basement brewed IPA type breweries that we see popping up in every middle class suburban neighborhood these days.

The Ator 20 is one of their range of numbered beers, such as the Simco 3 the Auris 19 the Robustus 6 and the Audi A3 (not the Audi A3).

Ator 20 comes to us in a pint bottle. 660ml  of Dunkles Bier that looks, according to the marketing team, like this:


In my world, where the advertising department probably has greater budgetary constraints, the beer comes out looking like this:

The Ator 20 is a full looking Dunkles. The head takes on a pale brown hue and the beer itself is a deep, rich brown with a touch of amber hiding in its midst.

The nose provides both fresh and roasted grains. There's some coffee in there for those with a broader imagination (or an addiction to coffee.. or who smell coffee everywhere anyways) and on top there is a little space made for the smell of berries and cocoa, depending on how dreamy you want to get with this kind of thing.

Flavour-wise, the Ator 20 is sweet, rich and creamy. The carbonation is markedly light, allowing one to hold this in the mouth for an extended period of time, sans the prickly exaggerations you might get from a less refined beverage. At the onset there is not much bitterness, but this arrives later. You don't have to wait for long. British trains might not run on time. German beers (and pretty much everything else in Germany) do.

Overall the Ator 20 is a very solid Dunkles. Better than most of what your going to find in the Supermarket and well worth getting your hands on . Next time I see this beer for sale, I wil be sure to snap up a couple of bottles. I grant this little number a very solid 6 out of 7.

 X X X X X X -


No comments:

Post a Comment