Frankenheim Alt

Brewed by Privatbrauerei Frankenheim (Warsteiner)
Style: Altbier
Düsseldorf, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Sieht im Glas sehr schön aus. Rötlich dunkel und die Krone ist grobporig und hält sich doch recht lange. Der Antrunk ist sehr angenehm. Herrliches Malzaroma, zu dem sich eine leichte Süße hinzu gesellt. Zum Mittelteil hin schmeckt es immer mehr nach schwarzem Kaffe. Zum Ausklang wird’s ein wenig bitter im Nachgeschmack, was das Ganze sehr gut abrundet. Insgesamt ein sehr gutes, röstmalziges und ausgewogenes Altbier.

Puors ndeep copper brown reddish, which lacing white thick head. Aromas, some berries, cardbaord, malts. Palte is watery sticky with thick mouthful carbonation. Texture is medioum thick. Aftertaste is sweet malts, metallic, some hay and dry hoppy finish, which medium short. Seems ok, but still quite boring.

Bottle. Caramel with a froth tan head that diminishes quickly. Aroma of malt, fruit and some pepper. Flavour is bittersweet with a dry spicy palate.

Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and caramel. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 081211

Bottle. Clear dark amber/brown with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, bread and caramel. Flavour is malt, medium sweet, caramel, bread, hops and a little bitter.

Pours copper with no head. Slightly metallic malt aroma. Pleasant, but not especially interesting flavour. Decent beer.

Bottle. Pours a large, rocky, off-white head. Lasting and lacy. Very clingy. Clear, copper body. Aroma is mildly estery with bready pale malt and a touch of toffee. No real hop presence or munich malt. Seltzery flavor. Lightly sour and dusty...somewhat papery. Really kind of unpleasant. Light body, moderate carbonation, lightly sweet and relatively bitter. Finish is kind of candyish. Overall pretty disappointing and not so tasty. Might have to try a second bottle.

Clean brown body with big bubbly tan head. Typical malty aromas for the style. Cellar, brown sugar, dried figs and caramel. Easy to drink due to the nice refreshing body. Taste is moderately rich but certainly a bit dull. Dry aftertaste, a bit harsh even. (50cl bottle)