Diebels Light

Brewed by Brauerei Diebels (InBev)
Style: Altbier
Issum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Clear, dark amber golden with a dense, off-white head. Lightly roasted malt aroma. Thin and watery, roasted malt and a litle sulphur. Dry, lightly bitter finish. Heavy carbonation. 040409

Bottle 50cl. @ [ Fastelavns After Tasting Ulfborg ].
Clear medium amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, bread, grain, caramel notes. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft, finish feel is galvanized metalic. [20090222]

Amber with a lasting white head. Malt and caramel aroma. Caramel malty flavour and slightly hoppy.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and deep orange with a small white head. Dry malt aroma, a bit flat. Citric and roasted malt, flat and dry. Ends bitter and roasted malt flavoured, light to thin bodied.

Bottle, 2.9%. Clear brown colour. Very small tan head. The flavour is OK roasted, but not much else. There is a little malt flavour, but it soon fades away in a watery aftertaste. OK for ABV, I guess.

Brown colour, medium lasting head, nice bitter, medium body, quit nice fore a low alc!

Bottle. Clear dark amber colour, small off-white head, lively carbonation. Aroma of roasted malt. Notes of malt. Bitter and watery.

Having made a list of the various alt potentially available in case I come across them in supermarkets or kiosks, I was happy to stumble upon this one. Unfortunately, the regular Diebels is already pretty light and this seems to be a watered down version. Pale amber in colour, the head is just as small and departing as the regular. Timid grainy malts with the lightest caramelly undertones, though the flavor profile is surprisingly dry, but not necessarily hoppy. Lean bodied to the max and very carbonated. Poor, but clean and not metallic.