Schwelmer Alt

Formerly brewed at Brauerei Schwelm
Style: Altbier
Schwelm, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

Bottle. It’s a clear, dark brown beer with a diminishing, creamy, two-finger beige head. Caramel, dried fruits and some faint notes of cellar in the aroma. Nice but a bit weak. Dried fruits, raisins mostly, caramel and roasted notes in the mouth. Silky, medium body. Caramel in the finish. Overall it’s a quite decent beer, caramel driven, but not very interesting. Get’s a bit one-dimensional. 090707

I did not have my beer out of the swing-top bottle, but instead it was out of the stubby bottle. Body was a medium-dark brown cloudy color with a scan off-white head. Aroma is mostly caramel malts with a thin dark fruit character. Body is a touch off with a watered down raisin/caramel flavor. Nothing really special about this one.

Swingtop 0,5ltr: An good decent tasty Altbier with its dark brown colour with hints of caramel.

Brown bottle, 0,5 l, best before 88 10 59, savoured on March 12 2009; eye: brown with a copperish hue, beige head that turns into a sheet, no effervescence, no lacing; nose: malt, dusty, caramel, lightly stale, light Madeira; mouth: thin, watery, maple water, slight malt, lightly stale, slight smoke, dusty, lightly stale finale, not much carbonation, medium body, lightly sweet; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 0,5 l, meilleure avant 88 10 59, savourée le 12 mars 2009; œil : brune avec une teinte cuivrée, mousse beige qui se transforme en une couverture, pas d’effervescence, pas de dentelle; nez : malt, poussière, caramel, légèrement éventée, léger madère; bouche : mince, aqueuse, eau d’érable, très léger malt, légèrement éventée, très léger fumé, poussiéreux, finale légèrement éventée, peu carbonatée, corps moyen, légèrement sucrée; en résumé : ordinaire

Bottle. Pours an amber body with an off white head one finger thick. Malty caramel with some graininess, citrus accents and light fruity esters. A dry malt character and a thin lingering bitterness to boot.

Bottle, not bad altbier, taste is caramel with bitter aftertaste, pretty good, but will try something else next time

Dark brown coloured beer with little carbonation and a small brown head. Malty roasted strong herby sweeter special aroma. Full sprankling palate. Finish is bitter malty, caramel touched, sweet bitter near the end. Medium one.

Bottle: Last one in San Diego trip, malty and sweet with hoppiness and soft bitterness. Smokey.