Uerige Alt

Brewed by Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei
Style: Altbier
Düsseldorf, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

First off, the bottle is awesome, really distinctive, ok enough about branding and marketing.....this beer is what beer geeks oglie about, complex and flavorful - really tasty. Take a sip and you get a burst of malt, like a double bock, but then as the beer cascades to the back of your throat it switches to a bitter, smooth and somewhat hoppy. Wow, a real treat....The play action pass of beers.

I was glad to get this bottle. This one looks really not spectacular - too less labels. In the glass the beer looks like a bockbier. The flavor is too sourish I think, I didn’t like it.

33 Cl Bottle-Poured a cloudy amber color w/a moderate rocky off white head. Faint malt aroma. Bitter malt flavor. Softened up a little as it warmed, developed a little more roasted malt/nuts. Not bad, but kind of one dementional. Long bitter fiinsh w/a full mouthfeel.

Bottle: Pours deep amber with an off white head. Buttery malts in the nose, with dried bisquity notes and grassiness as well. The flavor has some grainy malts upfront. The majoirty of the flavor, however, is lots a grassy dryness. The finish is long and very dry. Not that bad, just one dimensional and grassy overall.

An amazing beer and last but not least the only example of an "Alt-beer" as it was meant. Due to very high hop-prices most brewers forgot, that this is a bitter specialty. Uerige uses not only svery old, traditional equipment, they also keep the tradition of natural hop cones. Thanks!

Bottle. Malty, roasted, a little bit yeasty. Dark red body. Nice big creamy white head, mostly lasting. Heavy bitter start & finish, medium duration. Medium body, dry & oily texture, soft carbonation. Moderate astringent finish. Too bitter for my taste

Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with primary notes of caramel and a light note of fruit. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel, leading to a dry bitter finish.

Amber colour with an off white head. Malty, sweet aroma with caramel and fruity notes and a light hint of hops. Malty, light fruity and hoppy flavor.