Budels Alt

Formerly brewed at Budelse Brouwerij
Style: Altbier
Budel, Netherlands

Bottled. A copper coloured beer with barely any head. The aroma is very sweet with honey and caramel prevalent. The taste is really quite nasty and chemical. Far, far too sweet and with notes of toilet cleaner. Not at all impressed.

Clear amber honey body with a full size white head that didn’t want to hang around for too long. Hops and malt blended well in the aroma. Taste is what I expect from an altbier, but it falls away to a thin finish. Initial impression was that this was quite good, but getting into it a bit more it was ok but not real special.

Bright golden honey color, with a white foamy head, caramelized malt, grainy, flower hops aromas follow through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet malty character, grainy, hint of roasted malt, leading towards a faint dry hoppy finish.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a flat clear copper with an average size lasting white head. Aroma of malt, honey and something else I can’t place that I don’t much care for. Flavour of sweet malt with an unpleasant aftertaste. Dry medium body. Lime many Budels beers this is average at best.

Bottle (330ml). Shared with Blankboy - Budel giftpack adventure 5 of 6. Poured clear amber with an average beige head - flat looking. Aroma a bit vegetal, mild roasty malt, maybe some floral hops - like most of Budels, this is honeyish, and softens and gets less vegetal on warming. Taste follows the nose - sweet but with graininess, more hops, a bit fruity. Mouthfeel is grainy and very dry - overall very boring and flat - always flat with Budels! - and a little too sweet.

Dark gold color with heavy carbonation and a thick white bubbly/foamy head. Weak malty/hoppy aroma with corny and bready notes. Fair but rather unidimensional hoppy taste that ends with a decently sharp bitter finish. Really not impressed...

May, 2005. Cask, JDW, Rochester. Very light with an edge of cream. A rusty tinned oranges flavour - curiously attractive. Odd feeling of staleness, especially in the lingering dry bitterness. Spalt (Saaz) type hop flavour.

Pours clear light copper with a lasting small beaded lacy white sudsy head. Cookie dough and table syrup nose. Sticky and resinous. Light sour and pruney. Brown bread. Caramel and candy sugars. Spiced bread. A little astringent and chalky. Dry salty finish.