Altenmünster Brauer Bier Urig Würzig

Brewed by Allgäuer Brauhaus (Oetker Group)
Style: Premium Lager
Kempten, Germany

Serve in Lager glass

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Flip-top 0.5l bottle from Edeka. A bit of hop and malt, light sweetness, clean and dry, a bit gassy. A fairly ordinary lager.

No hop aroma, quite yeast and malt dominant. Quite clear, very beautiful colour almost like apple juice which is quite surprising. First tastes are sweet, then collected by the malt profile combined with a slight spice flavour and finally a small hint of bitterness comes through. The yeast must have been carefully selected in making this beer, for everything else seems quite sub-par, this is the only spot where the beer has any saving grace. Would buy again.

0.5L bottle. Looks like apple juice. Tiny head fades out. The bottle is pretty cool and interesting, the beer isn’t. Really light aroma, I can’t pick much out. The taste is soft, light mouthfeel, I don’t know what makes a lager "premium" but this isn’t it.

Il colore si conferma pari alle aspettative, un giallo paglierino dalle sfumature più accese, di intensità dorata, con un aspetto vivido e un corpo trasparente, il quale lascia intravedere una media fermentazione interna. La schiuma è particolarmente bassa, quasi inconsistente, morbida e persistente, dal colore bianco sporco. L’aroma evidenzia una nota rilevante dal sentore fortemente luppolato, quasi olivastro, non particolarmente godibile, attenuato solo parzialmente da un accenno più fresco e pulito, dal carattere floreale. In coda, inoltre, emerge un lieve sentore alcolico. Una combinazione di odori non particolarmente invitante, nonchè piuttosto forte. Non acquista punti sotto il profilo del gusto: l’imbocco presenta una componente amarostica abbastanza pronunciata, con un lieve pizzicorio a livello palatale, perfino acuito in punta da un residuo dal retrogusto luppolato. Il corpo è pieno ma liscio, il quale garantisce un facile passaggio. Buona persistenza amarostica.

Gift. A little bit of sweet malt, raisin and citrus. It’s a simple brew, not bad for the style.

Bottle from grocery store in Sellin, Germany. .5 L flip-top bottle. Golden pour. Small white collar, good carbonation and lacing. An odd iron aroma - like wet rusting nails. Not bad, just different. I have a IPA nose, I immediately "seek" the hops. No hop character present. No fizzy effervescent liveliness to the aroma either. It is a solid Munich Helles lager, however. Light, grain/cereal malt with a dash of spice. A bit of hop on the back end would really round out this beer. Cool bottle. I’m a slut for cool packaging.

Pale yellow with little head. Sweet, malty and alcoholic aroma and taste.

Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - straw. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Dry and light bitter finish. 030712

September 2008, from BA: Brown flip-top bottle holding 0.5 litres of a golden yellow beer which I poured into a Berliner Kindl 0.5 litre straight sided glass. The beer looked fine, clear and wholesome, a fair sized clean white head sat on top of the glowing liquid, hoped it tasted as good as it looked. Odourless, normal pilsner/lager/helles nothingness. Am I the only person on BA who struggles to pontificate about these styles of beers aromas? It gets my standard lager score of 3. Maybe I wasn’t thirsty enough, maybe I wasn’t hot enough. This was just a normal German light beer to me. OK, it was soft, clean and smooth tasting, but it was nothing special in any aspects. Nothing made it stand out from the crowd (apart from the bottle design).

50cl bottle shared. Thin white head. Clear golden pour. Nice enough but nothing special.