Schwelmer Alt

Formerly brewed at Brauerei Schwelm
Style: Altbier
Schwelm, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

Bottle 500ml. Aroma:Fruity, caramellic, chocolate, bread. Appearance: brown, clear, ok head. Taste: quite sweet, ok bitterness.

Pop-top @ Rudat, Dortmund-Oespel, Germany. Pours a ruby-with brown hints and a medium-small head. Decent lacing. Nose is a bit thin, I think that hurts this beer. Malts, grain and brown sugar. Taste is certainly better. Dark roasted malts, nuts, some brown sugar, a little spice and a far amount of bitter hops. Would be on par with the Dusseldorf Alts if it did not have such a salty finish. Still, decent, very decent, fare.

True to style and pleasantly hoppy in the finish, great alt. Bit thin, but comes with the stlye, duh.

Hazelnut pour with a nice white head. Earthy, mossy aroma. Toasted malt sweetness as well. Flavor of raisins, brown sugar, a little cardboard, a little roast. Decent mouthfeel. A middle of the road, or maybe slightly above average alt.

500ml Bottle: Aroma of malt, dried leaves, cardboard, and bread. Poured very deep amber/ruby/light mahogany in color with a tiny, off-white head that lasted around the edges only. Clear. Not sparkling. A few small particles. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of malt, fruit, light caramel, dried leaves, and bread. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Light to medium sweet malt, dried leaf, and bread finish.

Pours copper with a beige head. Aroma is heavy breaddy malt, light hop. Flavour is heavy malt, light bitter and light hop.

11.2 Fl. oz bottle from Mesa. Big pop from swing top bottle but vigorous pour offered almost no head. Tiny haze of lace. Cola brown with red tints. Nose big and sweet. Raisins and rum and vanilla. Taste has some caramel and cola with a light bitterness in back. Eh.

Bottle, 50cl. Pours a clear, dark amber beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is malt, sweetness and some caramel. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is sweet. Overall an average to good beer.