Uerige Sticke

Brewed by Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei
Style: Altbier
Düsseldorf, Germany

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

Bottle shared by my brother. Clear, yet chunky amber/copper pour with a medium tan head. Aroma of caramel, toffee, grain and some noble hops. Flavor is toffee and caramel with a dry hop finish and a touch of fruit.

(bottle) pours a hazy copper-ruby colour with a frothy dense beige head. aroma of bread, cherries and strawberries, caramel, herbs and light gingerbread spice. flavour is the same, though less fruity, with a long yeasty caramel bitter finish. medium body with smooth carbonation.

Pours a murky brown with a large, active off-white heat, which simmers down to a lasting film of bubbles and a network of lace. Aroma is faint, what’s there is resinous nuts, a bit of caramel. Flavor begins with resinous malts and hops bitterness, a lot of nuts and tea here. Some frutiness accompanies the alcohol warmth later on, but the beer remains lightly bitter throughout, with the nuts remaining on the linger. Warm on the palate, very soft and sudsy. Good, but missing the caramel that makes the ordinary Uerige alt such a wonderful sessionable malt bomb.

Dark amber or medium brown, with a low head. Aroma of sherry, well aged, a bit of fruit, especially dark fruit, and hops. Very sherry-like flavor, with cherries, caramel, and good hops. Tastes oaky and well aged. Much like a British old ale. Very well hopped, with a dry finish of hops and sherry. Nice, but not as good as the regular that I had fresh. The sherry-like aged flavor and aroma are a little too much. A very interesting strong alt. quite different indeed from the regular one. Rich and nice.

33cl bottle. Pours a coppery color with a big off-white head. Big caramel malty notes in the nose. Strong deep caramel malt flavor. Quite dry finish. Well balanced and very nice.

Golden color, medium white head. Aroma of nuts and caramel. Taste is very malty. Straightforward.

She was one year old if she was a hundred - a beer that stares time in the face and says, "To hell with thee!" An altbier if ever I’ve had one. And I have...thrice! This beer has no place in the low countries, it is as German as apple pie. But place it before a podium and slap a microphone in its hands and this beer will deliver a stump speech! It boasts as much head as the headless horseman, but twice as irreverent. Not to mention, the Eurige Sticke is very much the product of modern science, and has even been known to cure instances of bum leg. Picture the ethereal haze of the midlands at dusk, you’ve captured its essence. Flavors of light berries, filbert nuts, circus peanuts, tousled hair, green iris, and Raid insecticide - and not in an unpleasant way. That is to say this beer is very unpleasant. But the kind of unpleasance that jostles you from your complacent ways and prompts you to travel the world! Ken Kesey, in his wildest hallucinations, could not have concocted a more studious beverage. Summarized into a single thought: it is how it was.

Dark amber/cider color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of toasted malt, dark fruit, some caramel, & spice; Flavor of roasted sweet malt, spicy hops, caramel, nuts, some dark fruit, and raisons; Finish is slightly bitter; Nicely balanced; Overall, quite good - though I enjoyed their double a bit more.