What am I tasting in these lagers?

[Lando]

I bought a mixed 6 of different lagers just to give them a test drive. I like all of them, but I am tasting a similar after taste in all of them as well. It is almost a bready after taste. It's not bad or anything, but I am trying to put my finger on it.
The ones I really noticed it in were Troegs double bock, SA traditional lager, Bells double or dopplebock.
Any ideas on the source of this?

 

[OperationBrew]

Using AG or extract?

 

[Lando]

These are not home brew, they are from the store.

 

[uwjester]

Melanoidins maybe?

 

[malkore]

Melanoidins maybe?

could be that, or toasty malt goodness.

could just be that the clean profile of the lager yeast is letting the flavors out more. do you normally drink a lot of ales rather than lagers?

 

[Edcculus]

Seems like youre naming a lot of dopplebocks? Clean yeast profile allows the malts to shine through. The vienna or munich malts used in dopplebocks or other darker lagers can give you those toasty or bread like flavors.

 

[EricT]

Would biscuit malt give that taste?

 

[remilard]

Yeah, basically you are tasting no esters and no late hopping.

 

[Zamial]

Since we get to guess, here is mine: It was light that was altering the flavor.

This is why I am guessing this (edited for the facts):

I bought a mixed 6 of different lagers...I am tasting a similar after taste in all of them. It is an after taste. Any ideas on the source of this?

A mixed 6 means single beers in a display case, 99% of people do not buy beer this way often enough for stock to rotate well. Light will alter the flavor of beer. Ever get a bad skunky beer and wonder why? That is the end result of flavoring altering light. It may be possible that in these dark beers that instead of skunky they go "bready" IDK it is a guess...

 

[Edcculus]

Stale/oxidized maybe with that logic, but not light struck.