DeGroens Altfest

Formerly brewed at Baltimore Brewing Co.
Style: Altbier
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

Hazy amber with small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, candy sugar, caramel. Taste is very sweet, candy sugar, some caramel, lightly astringent. Sticky medium body with moderately high carbonation. I found this way too sweet, and in may ways it seemed like Belgium invading Germany -- not an alt like I’ve ever tasted.

Woops! What happened? Not a drain pour - or is it? Would say that something went way wrong here. Aaron suspected candy sugar, and I have to agree that it seemed present. With the ALT in the title I was expecting a certain tannic quality to be there somewhere or at least not be saturated with the type of swetness that did nothing to bring malt to mind. Didn’t taste infected, but perhaps an infection of another sort. What was being attempted here?

What the heck is going on here? This is a hefeweizen, not an alt. I don’t mean it has has some hefe-resemblances...this is a pure, Bavarian-style wheat beer. I want alt dammit, ALT!