hopIQ found 10 beers with the same chocolate and coffee character as Balter Black Lager. A black lager brewed with rice alongside barley, which takes away much of the weight a dark beer usually carries. It pours opaque but drinks light: chocolate and espresso lead, then a pop of cherry and a trace of molasses before a dry, clean lager finish. At 4.9 percent and 22 IBU the roast character reads as flavour rather than bitterness. Ranked by flavour match rather than popularity.
Closest match: Arnold Schwarzbier — 76%. No twin in the catalogue yet.
5 countriesmatched across 56 flavour tagsbest match 76%
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