4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Gravity - Goldencopper body, creamy off white head; Beautifull very balanced nose, fresh and fruity with quite a bit of noble hop aromas and pleanty of malt; Very fresh body, balanced bitter and a very little thin; Fresh bitterness in malty bitter finish, lots of fruit with dry noble hop aromas really standing out, it finishes a little short.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap, march 07. Beatifull shinny light copper color with a foamy, tight white head. Aroma is yeasty, some crystal malts and a bit of all bran cereal. Taste is spicy bitterness, some nuttines and toastines from the malt. Excellent. MF is medium to medium light with a mouth filling herbal esence and a nice bittersweet, lingering aftertaste. One of the best and hoppiest alts, charming!
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Dark golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, apple. Flavour is fruit, malt, apple, hop, hay. Ok alt beer.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAR 21, 2007 Cask at the brewpub. Clear nut brown, rich creamy head. Intricate fruity nosem some nuts and lightly roasty malt. Medium sweet with fairly soft mouthfel and medium body. Hay-like lightly bitter finish. Well balanced and very drinkable. Funnily enough the waiter at Zum Uerige admitted that this was his favourite beer...
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. A clear, copper-colored beer with a dense, beige head. Quite fruity aroma with some caramel, hops and grass. The flavor has a nice fruityness and some notes of hay. Thin to medium body and a malty finish with some hayish notes. Ok, it is a nice beer, but overrated I think. (070216)
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught at the brewpub. The aroma reminds me of flavour hops. Clear copper colour, OK tan head. Low bitterness. Caramelly, roasted aftertaste. The aroma hops also come out in the aftertaste as a sweetish, herbal note. Mild and pleasant. Quite drinkable and very clean.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Clear light amber color with a large good lacing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, toasted, light yeasty, earth. Initial flavor is ligth to moderate sweet and bitter, finish flavor is ligth to moderate sweet, moderate bitter with a average duration in a good balance. Body is ligth to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to lively.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Schlüssel - The key
Vom fass @ a small caravan-stall at the end of Marktstrasse, Düsseldorf, Germany (June ’06).
Second day here, what more to do during the World Cup than, sadly, shop! Having none of that, I protested with a bevvie break, a lucky find I might add. This poured a paled, chestnut brown, bright and sparkling, sweating outside the glass in the searing heat. Some Schinken Scheiben to accompany it, I was hungry. Woody, though toffeeish, biscuity malts on the nose. A hint of cola, light roasted malt twitch and just a sprinkle of old, dried herbs on edge. The aroma failed to desist as I quaffed, always prominent, pronounced. It is smooth on the tongue, sweet and juicy, arousing the salival glands, exciting the nerve endings. Big malts in this one, woody, earthy and biscuity, clean and free of tannins. Munich malt seems in essence. Light spice mid-palate, remains sweet until it fades into musty, earthy hop heaven in the very back. Finish is floral for all of one second before it drops off sweet, bitter and slightly citric. Shows good length, doing the palate justice. Tasty no question, balanced beyond belief and lip-smacking good. Now where’d the wife go!!!!
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