3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at La Rustica in Lippstadt. Pours clear amber with copper hues and tan head. The aroma is sort of spicy with hops followed by toasted bread, a thin ribbon of caramel candy and a faint hop earthiness. The taste is very similar and a bit on the lively side with mild spicy hops and earthy hops mixing with roasted malts, toasted wheat bread and caramel candy. Nice Alt.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 6/20
On tap in a bar. brown, medium stable and frothy head. looks pretty good. smells fruity, a bit of banana. tastes quite malty. some taste of yeast. almost no bitterness. a bit boring but ok.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Tap at the brewery, pours a fairly light brown, very weak flavoured and bodied, not a big fan
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at the brewery. Dark brown with large white head. Light body with slight grassy finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap in Langenfeld. Pours a dark reddish brown with a big frothy white head. Aroma is mainly malt and a little roast. Taste is slight honey, slight roasted malt but mainly just a bready malt taste. Easy drinking.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle. Dark greyish brown with quite quickly dissipating head. Aroma is caramel, coffee, hops, fruit (mango maybe), malt and a bit of honey. Taste is unexpectedly fruity for an altbier, caramel and coffee are not as prominent as in the nose, some malt and honey and a medium bitterness which grows with the drinking. Perfect altbier.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
500 mL bottle from Beers of Europe into a pint glass. Dark brown with a foamy head. Tastes somewhat roasted, a little bitter and pleasant. Tastes more like an English beer than a German one, a bit porter-ish. Tastes a bit of roastedness, but thats about it. If this is what altbiers taste like I wouldn’t mind sampling a few more. Pretty good stuff, not exceptional but nice.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Although mass-produced by a large brewery, Frankenheim Alt is one of my favourite Altbiers around. This is due to the full, malty body, which is a not as sweet as e.g. Schumacher Alt. The taste is supported by a refreshingly carbonated mouthfeel.
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