Albani HC Andersen 1805

Formerly brewed at Albani Bryggerierne (Royal Unibrew)
Style: Vienna
Odense, Denmark

Serve in Lager glass

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Pours dark brown with a fine tan head. Mild sweet malt aroma with metallic tones and brown sugar hints. Sourish malt flavor with light spices and grassy tones. Bready notes also and a dry mouthful. Not very interesting, just as expected, but drinkable.

01.05.2005. 0,33l Bottle. Brown colour with tan head. Fyldig og godt øl med mye malt. Nydelig!

one of the few viennas that rubs me the wrong way completely. it’s like they wanted to make a crossover between a stout and a schwarzbier and landed here. too sour and not enough carb ’along with’ not much taste

33cl bottle. Pours dark amber with a small creamy white head. Nose and taste is vaguely roasted. Some dark malts. Caramel and bread. Medium to watery body. Hints of straw and a weak note of metal/iron. Not the worst beer from the brewery.

H. C. Andersen had to "father" quite a few things in 2005 - and I hope he doesn’t turn in his grave in distress over this one - I would, that’s for sure!!! Dark brown, nice head. The aroma is lightly malty and hoppy. The flavour has sweet notes of molasses, a sour hint, and a suitable bitterness in the finish.

Bottle. Dark brownish colour with short average lasting head. Aroma of toasted malts and caramel. Roasted maltiness with a nice touch of sweetnes, some bitterness, which stayes well in the aftertaste. A pretty good brew!

(Bottle 33 cl) Pours a beautiful, clear nutty brown with a beige head. Aroma mainly of nuts. Fairly light body with a high level of carbonation. Flavours of nuts, roasted malts and burned caramel. Subdued bitterness. Quite pleasant. 291106

UPDATED: SEP 11, 2006 Now I have tasted it again after I found a brew which was BB February 06 and had been kept on the shelf in the local supermarket by an accident since, and it was actually a lot better now it had matured a bit. The aroma was like the danish dish "øllebrød" which is bread softened in dark beer, and the taste was øllebrød too, but with more malts. The aftertaste was a bit boring; bread-like and only a little hopped, but it was actually still a good beer.

Bottle labelled "dark pilsener". This is, as far as I can tell, a normal Albani pils with added sugar and caramel colouring (E150c). Yucky and very artificial.

Red brownish colour with a medium light brown mostly diminishing head. Aroma and taste of malt and caramel.

A deep red beer with a nice brown head. The aroma is very sweet with strong notes of straw, caramel, and corn. The flavor is sweet with notes of metal, caramel, and corn, leading to a dry corny end. The mouthfeel is thin. The only good thing about it is the beutiful color.