Falter Kellerbier

Formerly brewed at Brauerei Falter Hof
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Hof-Unterkotzau, Germany

Serve in Lager glass, Stein

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Bottle, 6.2%. Hazy brown colour. Big stable light brown head. The flavour is a little sweet. Slightly roasted. Not too bad.

The bottle looks good, the beer in the glass also. Quite dark for a kellerbier. Tastes malty and strong, also spicy and smoky. Interesting beer. For me a mix between schwarzbier, bockbier and a smoked beer.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a slowly collapsing off-white head. Butterish and mild malty aroma. Medium sweet flavour mixed with a light spice note. Light roasted malt finish with a light spice note into the far finish.

Bottle. Light unclear amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty to light heavy, roasted, caramel, chocolate, dust. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. (221107)

Bottle (bought at the brewery): Chestnut-amber coloured with a discreet haze, small, but very stable sandy head, caramelly, dark-malty nose with a tinge of toasted/roasted malt; robust sweet (malty) bitter flavour, medium bodied; finishes sweet-malty with molecular fruitiness, bitterness in the aftertaste, caused by roasted malt and aromatic hops. A quite full bodied Kellerbier, nice, not easy.........

(bottle) Slightly hazy, mahogany colour with a fluffy, moderately persistent off-white foamy head, leaving some lace. Sweet, slightly dusty toast-malty aroma with toffee and a light hoppy touch, also whiffs of fruitiness. Sweet flavour with a faint touch of acidity in the background, medium bodied with a moderate carbonation. Toasty malty taste with toffee on a light herbal background. Sweet and a bit acidic finish with toasty and light herbal hoppy notes. According to the given 6.2% abv I expected a kind of Kellerbier-Bock but received just a bit stronger, still drinkable but also rather disappointing Kellerbier.

bottled. brown purple. plum aroma, very dark for a kellerbier. starts quite bland but developed some sultana and vanilla flavours as it warmed and a lightly prickly finish. melt in the mouth texture, surprisingly little sign of alcohol for a stronger kellerbier

Is called Kellerbier or Kellertrunk, but is mostly a dunkel - only cloudiness if you really work on the yeast in the bottom of the bottle. Lacks other features of a keller/land brew. Sugary malty aroma and acidic note a bit like cola. Brown, low carbonation, no head. Sugary tastenotes - dust, malt edges and citric acidic notes almost bordering to infection. Otherwise nothing - watery. According to the bottletext is the beer a old recipe tuned to the taste of today....no comment.