Sunday Road SR-14 Dark Larger

It’s fuller and sweeter and less roasty than a schwarzbier, shares some flavours with a Baltic porter but with less oomph, and has slightly more focus on hop character than either. It’s also got that nice, sweet, toasted bread crust character of a Munich dunkel. Prunes and brown sugar on the nose carry through into the mouth, but there they caramelise in a saucepan and meet some dark chocolate and the aforementioned sweet toast. But while that stewed concoction would be sticky and sweet – and quite a strange combo, though I’ll taste most things once – SR 14° manages to hold the line with a relative dryness and subtle bitter spice, making it extremely drinkable. This dark lager invites, begs, demands you to session it, and to say again and again with ever increasing joviality - “Na zdravi!