Braustelle Ehrenfelder Alt

Brewed by Gasthaus-Brauerei Braustelle
Style: Altbier
Cologne-Ehrenfeld, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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Draft at the source. Murky brown color, huge beige ice cream cone head. Aroma of toasted brownies and caramel. Taste is brown bread, toffee, cocoa. Very nice.

Tap at Braustelle, Ehrenfeld Koln, 27/04/13. Murky dark amber with a big frothy white head. Nose is toffee, light hops, sugars, dark fruits, touch of biscuit. Taste comprises toffee, biscuit, good hop bite. Medium bodied, fine carbonation. Decent hopped up alt.

Tap at Braustelle. Hazy greyish brown colour with average to huge, frothy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Rather cautious malty aroma with very cautious hints of raost and smoke. Taste is minimally smoky malty, bitter hoppy overtones, very cautious hints of roast. Not that untypical, but somehow not really concrete, tangible.

On tap. Pours cloudy purple-brown with large dense off-white head. Roasted malts and caramel aroma. Malty and caramel taste, a little bitter. Light body.

Draught at Heiden Peters. Murky cloudy brown with a large tan head. Aroma is cabbage and a little malt. Flavour is light malt, dry smoke on a long dry finish.

On tap @ In De Wildeman. Brown color, cloudy. Dense off white head, good lace. Aroma’s: strong roast, caramel, hopbitter. Flavor is medium bitter, with some caramel that makes it softer. Light bodied. Bitter finish. Another very nice beer from Braustelle.

On tap@In de Wildeman, Amsterdam. Head: beige. Colour: clear, ruby brown. Aroma: vague malt. Taste: light bitter. Palate: refreshing, light bitter finish, low CO2. Overall: ok.

Delicious microbrewed example of a style that is mostly industrial brew in the area. Typical for an alt, the flavor is dominated with bready tones, with roasted smoky notes,a little caramel and a touch of herb. Strong, almost mouth-puckering hop bitterness in the finish. The aroma is strongly bready, with hardly any discernable hoppiness at all. A well balanced beer - flavorful but refreshing!

It smells malty, roasty. The taste is sweet, a bit roasty, a bit fruity. In the aftertaste a little bit sour. Drinkable Alt from Cologne! 11/11/12/11/-/11

33cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Unclear dark brown colour, dense off-white/beige head. Aroma of cabbage, cocoa, caramel, toasted malts, hops, nuts. Flavour is nutty, toasted malts, light cocoa, sweet malty, light fruity, dark fruits, some cabbage, firm herbal bitter finish. Light to medium bodied. Nice.