Altenmünster Premium

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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UPDATED: SEP 22, 2006 Not quite hoppy enough to be a Pils, though probably just too hoppy and not malty enough to be a Helles. Anyway it was still nice - honeyish malt aroma, herbal hoppiness and very clean. Pretty standard German offering but that’s still better than most. Slight haze which is really unforgivable in such a beer.

Pour is cloudy gold. Nose and taste is very syrupy and spiced almost like a wheat. Rated 7/1/02

16oz swing top bottle 5/00-Pours a golden body with a small white head. Aroma of grains and slight malt. Taste of the same with some grass taste. This light bodied brew is just another example for the style.

A bit hazy pale golden, thin lasting head, some grain and hoppy notes, nice flavor, fully one, grassy hinds.

Its a lager, what else can I say. Plain and simple, with a bready maltiness, light and somewhat thin body. It is balanced if you can call it that, nothing about it is overly bad, but not that great either.

For a beer that’s made Germany its got a very thin body, aroma is biscuits and bread like. The taste is of malts, fruits and bread. for the casual get together

The aroma is is sweet with sugar, malt, and raisins. The appearance is dark gold with a small head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is way too thin. This one gets points for being a unique lager but it’s still not a good beer.

The 16 ounce bottle poured a slightly hazy light amber beverage with a small fizzy white head that was mostly diminishing and left little or no lacing on the glass. The aroma was interesting, not what I expected from a lager. It had notes of dried dark fruits like prunes and raisins with almost no detectable malt character. The body was medium-light with slightly flat carbonation and a watery texture. The flavor started off semi-sweet with a spicy back-flavor. The finish was a little shorter than I would have liked but there was a light alcohol warmth to the end. My impression was that this beer may not have been fresh. I’ll need to re-rate this at a later time.

Interesting fruity nose, with a light bit of fresh flowers. Malt body is quite tasty, fruity with a bit of caramel. Very unique and fresh tasting.

Pours a hazy, dirty straw color with a respectable enough head. The aroma is a light fresh bread, a grassy/floral bitterness, and, oddly enough, a touch of chocolate. The flavor’s a dull, sweet malt with a touch of fruit and little of any hopping. Drinkable enough, but this one was enough for me.

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Light hay color with thin white head. Nose is a vanilla. Taste is a vanilla peach with light chocolate with slight slivers of sweetness trailing at the back of the palate. Very dry and flat but great as far as lagers go.