10 Beers for 10 Years: DCBeer.com’s Decade Dunkel

10 Beers for 10 Years continues with District ChopHouse collaboration

In an effort to make more of the beer we’d like to drink, we asked Barrett Lauer, Head Brewer at District ChopHouse to brew a Dunkel, a German-style dark lager, with us. The catch? We wanted it dry-hopped and we wanted to use just a touch of smoked malt. But if you know anything about DC’s oldest brewery, it is that Barret Lauer doesn’t make anything imbalanced.

Using Pilsner, Munich, CaraMunich, Black, and just a touch of smoked malt, our dark lager came to life. The outline for this 2019 Dunkel came from DeGroen’s Dunkel, last brewed at the Baltimore Brewing Company, which closed in 2005. Lauer once worked for Baltimore Brewing and made DeGroen’s Dunkel there, but for this batch, he tweaked the recipe by adding smoked malt and Spalter hops and, of course, dry-hopping.

The result, DCBeer.

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