Schlösser Alt

Brewed by Brauerei Schlösser (Oetker Group)
Style: Altbier
Düsseldorf, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

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330ml bottle, poured into Leffe chalice. Dark bronze colour, one finger head which didn’t hang around very long, kept some lacing. Quite thick looking but not hazy. Initially there was no detectable aroma, some malt and vanilla came through towards the end. Tasted charcol and malt, was overly bitter in an unbalanced way that also killed all other flavours. Finish was bitter and slightly bready. Had a coarse edge, was well carbonated and the body was quite thick for the fairly low strength. Overall not one of the better beers out there, was just a bit unbalanced even though it mellowed slightly.

Tasted 8.18.2002 in Berlin. Pours darkish brown with medium head. Bready and earthy and malty in taste.

Clear copper yellow with small white foam head. Aroma is earthy with malt notes. Taste is reasonable bitter yet again some earth present. Bit sparkling. Quite long bitter aftertaste. (Velp 201301)

500ml bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is dusty, bready malt with a little cardboard. Taste has coffee and beef to start, with bread and beef on the finish.

500 ml bottle, at home, poured into a kolsch glass. ABV 4,8%. Pale amber colour, with an off-white head on top, soapy, with average retention, leaving light lacing behind. Little activity in the glass. Very transparent. Nice strong aroma of roasted malts and slighty caramel. Quite bitter on the finish, with intense roasted malts taste and a light iron flavour. Very thin on the body. Carbonation is light to medium. At first I was a bit disappointed by its appearance but it turned out to be a very nice alt.

#120 Von den sog. Mainstream-Altbieren a la Diebels, Frankenheim, Gatzweiler, Bolten usw. ist es mir noch das liebste. Es sieht eben nicht nur optisch wie ein veritables Alt aus, es schmeckt auch so: Malzaromatisch mit herbem Abgang! Schlösser kommt eben authentisch daher, ohne sich nichtssagendem, rundgelutschtem Einheitsbrei anzupassen. Für ein sog. Massen-Alt absolut okay! Besseres Alt gibbet nur in den Düsseldorfer Hausbrauereien.

Bottle at a tasting at Basel Airport, December 2012. Pours clear dark bronze with a frothy white head. Grainy, grassy and bready aroma, tastes malty and a wee bit sour. Medium body, carbonated. long malty finish. Very drinkable, despite the sourness.

(Flasche) Es hat eine braune.bis bernsteinerne Farbe, ist klar filtriert mit einer fast weißen Schaumkrone. Das.Aroma ist süß, etwas fruchtig, fast pfirsichartig. Der Geschmack ist fast wässrig, bitterer als andere Alt Biere und sonst nur breit getreidig.

(bottle) pours a clear dark amber colour with a frothy off-white head. aroma of cornflakes, light butter, sour cherries, herbal hops, bubble gum and a hint of marzipan. flavour is mostly heavy cardboard, raisins, burnt toffee and roasted malts, with a hint of banana in the finish. medium-bodied with average carbonation.

Amber beer with a thin, foamy head. Smooth but mild fruity flavour with a nutty aftertaste. Not especially distinctive because the flavour could do with being a bit stronger.