Boltens Alt

Brewed by Privatbrauerei Bolten
Style: Altbier
Korschenbroich, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Dark copper pour with actually a small haze to it. The off-white head does not last very long, big-bubbled as it is. Brown sugar emanates besides the leafy, earthy hops for a healthy and rather fresh nose. Grainy more than toasty palate with a fair sweetness. Sharp carbonation enhances a slight metallic tang. An okay example.

Bottle. (Alc 4.8%) Clear dark amber color with a small fair lacing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light hoppy and yeasty, earth, some notes of smoke. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. Finish feel is ligth metalic in the very end.

Dark amber with a quickly disappearing head, malty, slightly sweet to start, somewhat of a bitter end, decent alt, quite drinkable. Thanks to MoritzF for the bottle!

Bottle. Copper pour with a beige head. Gentle malty aroma with hops and (yes!) spag funk. Taste is dark malt and a bit of caramel. Bitterness is restrained, though there are hops present. Sweetness, too, subtle and berry-like. Very smooth. Dry end. Excellent! Thanks to MortizF!

A deep amber beer with a strong white head. A sharp, hoppy nose initially, that mellows with the addition of sweet malt and caramel. The taste is dry and hoppy, and again, there is a hint of sweet malt towards the end, the finish is dry and slightly tart, and the aftertaste is long and dry on the mouth. Bottle, purchased from the Beers of Europe, Setchey, Norfolk.

Bottle: Amber coloured, firm beige head, sticking to the glass; malty nose, also cardboard and dust; malty taste with a faint bitterness, ending with a short, nearly grassy bitterness in the malty finish, metallic tinge, too. Bolten used to brew very good beers not very long ago; now the owners changed and, as it seems, the quality also........

From A Bottle.Chestnut brown in colour with a medium head,aroma is malty,taste is malty with some smoke,wood,metal and dark fruit.

(bottle) Dark reddish amber colour with a firm foamy medium white head. Aromas of roasted malts with some floral hoppy background. The taste is initially caramel-malty and well-balanced with its hopbitter and nutty aftertaste. A good example of an Altbier from the Lower Rhine area

(Bottle 50 cl). Dark brown almost mahogany-coloured beer. Decent head although it fades quickly. Nice, toffeeish body, slightly roasted tone and an incredibly delicious flavor. Distinct, but not dominating bitterness. 200903

Bottle from Maeib (ta!) Copper beer, with 1 cm of beige froth. Malty beer - approaching something lagery. An echo of choc, but really achingly plain, offering merely refreshment and smooth cohesion. Less compelling than the draft Alts I’ve tried.