Buckeye CBW 2011 Hoppy German-Style Altbier

Brewed by Buckeye Brewing Company
Style: Altbier
Lakewood, Ohio USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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This beer pours a clear orange color with a medium off-white head that dissipates steadily. Stringy lacing on the glass. Aroma of toasted malt and hops. Medium body with flavors of grassy hops, bready malt and caramel. The finish is spiced hops and sweet malt. Decent all around.

bottle, thanks to bu11zeye, clear orange amber in color with a faint fruity aroma, flavor is dry , buttery grains, caramel and a thin finish

on tap at Buckeye 15Feb2012, an altbier huh? well this isnt hoppy though maybe for an alt it is.. its just a mediocre beer with a sweeter finish than expected. see ya next year CBW

(22oz bottle) Pours a clear copper body with a medium white head. Aroma of grain, toffee, light pine, nuts, and caramel. Flavor of grain, grass, pine, and caramel with a dry, bitter finish.

Mild aroma to start this beer off, with the hops just barely showing up. Pours a clear amber, with a full white head. Interesting blend of flavors, with the pine hops adding to the biscuit malts in this beer. Light and easy drinking, this is much better then I was expecting.

22oz bottle thanks to Brigadier: pours a clear bright orange with a clingy-lacing white head. Has a lightly sweet toasty caramel malty nose with a healthy amount of piny hops. Starts with good fullness and clean lightly toasted caramel malty sweetness with a good balance of resiny bittering hops before a drier bittersweet finish. Flavorful and very drinkable.

Sample at Buckeye Beer Engine on 12/10/11. Clear amber pour with a thin off-white head. Malty and grassy nose with some nutty notes as well. Malty flavor with caramel and spicy hops before a dank finish.

Tasted on 12/1/11 from a 650mL bomber bottle sent to me as an extra in a trade. Pours a clear amber/copper color with an average beige head that slowly recedes to spotty lace, leaving some lace along the inside of the glass. The nose is bread, hay, and cereal malt, with light roast, and grassy, spicy hops. The flavor is more of the same, with the lightly roasted bread, cereal, and hay, with the spicy, grassy, and nicely bitter hops. The body is fairly light with lively carbonation, and a medium spicy and grassy finish.

Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of some grass, caramel malts, and some lemon. Flavor is light with caramel malts and the earthy tones dominating. Not much else.