Frankenheim Alt

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

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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UPDATED: MAR 16, 2010 Rating one: Draught at Zeche Bochum on December 28, 2008.
Clear dark brown color, light tan head. Malty scent and taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness. 7/4/7/3/13=3.4

Rating two: Draught at Hooters, Bochum. On December 29, 2008. Clear dark brown color, tan fluffy head. Sweet and spicy scent. Spicy, dry, herbal taste. Moussy mouthfeel, medium bitterness. 6/4/7/3/13=3.3

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Draught at the Frankenheim brewery tap next to the old brewery in Düsseldorf, on March 12, 2010
Clear beautiful dark copper to brown color, nice looking tan to yellowish brown head. Spicy, hoppy, sweet, fresh, fruity, red berries taste. Very taste and very refreshing. The fresh herbal hops really works as a qlench for your thirst. Weel needed after a cold fast walk. Medium to moussy mouthfeel. Fresh herbal, almost dry scent, hoppy. Medium high a bit dry bitterness. Some residual sweetenss somce in the back to work with the bitterness. Very well made, feels like it’s made for session drinking.
7/4/8/3/15=3.7

Red/brown, clear with a proud sustaining head. The aroma is sweet andmalty but a little too understated. The flavour is suprisingly complex, but also refreshing and clean. Initially dry with caremel and a spiciness that gains intensity towards the finish, which lingers quite long. Very tasty, I didn’t expect to like this as much as I did.

A unique, nice beer to drink. The head was fair, but colour was quite nice. Aroma and taste were both interesting and different from most other beers I’ve tried.

UPDATED: MAR 8, 2003 A great german alt beer. There is nothing better than a good german beer. It has a very clean taste to it and all flavors are present at the right amount.

Medium chestnut colored, thin head, lots of carbonation. Earthy malt and nutty aroma, like a cross between a dunkel and an English brown. Hazelnut and roasty malt flavors are quite distinctive, and intercepted by an adequate bitterness, touch of sourness. Light bodied, not as fizzy as expected, with a lingering finish. My first of the style, and I quite enjoyed it.

Nice, clean light copper appearance - sparkles - very distinguished looking. Has a nice off-white head with a good bit of lacing. Very faint earthy aroma - had to sniff real hard to capture it! Has a bit of a bitter bite to the smooth bitterness with some underlying malt ones. Alt is a style I cannot grasp an appreciation of - but this is the best of the few that I have had - am determined to one day enjoy them!

Dark bronze colour. Nice thin creamy head and lacing. Not unpleasant hop aroma similar to aged grass clippings. Slighty sour at the start and moreso at the finish. Very similar to an above average brown.

A dark amber altbier with a sturdy hop bitterness and good complex, clean malt character. Some light chocolate notes are perceptable.

Nice off white head on light brownish copper crystal clear liquid. lightly roasty malt aroma and a small whiff of chocolate and even a hint of smokiness. Very clean with no fruitiness in the aroma as it should be with a true alt. Roast and Munich malts seem to dominate flavor, but roast is not stout like, more of an enhancement to the overall flavor. There is a slight sourness from the dark grains that adds a little to the complexity. A little caramel in the background and finishes dry and nicely bitter w/a clean aftertaste. Body is light and moderately carbonated with a smooth creamy texture. A very drinkable session beer probably very good for newbies to try as opposed to B/M/C.

Good malty aroma, nice head that disipated to a light skin of foam. The flavor is dominated by malt with sublte roasted notes. The bitterness is in balance but not as strong as I would have expected. Overall a very nice beer that is quaffable and rewarding.