Ur-Saalfelder

(swing top bottle) Slightly hazy, amber colour with a medium-sized, slowly lacing yellowish foam. Moderately sweet malty, slightly toasty aroma. Initially sweet malty, later drying out, getting slightly bitter towards the malty finish with delicate, well-balanced hops. Nothing special, but pretty drinkable.

Bügelverschlußflasche: Deep golden to light amber coloured, mid-sized fluffy head, quickly diminishing to a small foamy layer; sweet malty and honey in the nose, molasses and raisins too, not to forget the hoppy traces; rather sweet, a bit alcoholic flavour; short, sweet-malty (with a taste of honey) finish, some faint hoppy edges....A bit too much on the sweet side, but all in all a clean and drinkable, medium-bodied Märzen.

Grabbed it out of a Rewe-market in Saalfeld. Pours a deep golden/caramel coloured beer with a just off-white unstable head. Sweet malts in the nose promise a sweet beer, slightly metallic as well, but nothing offensive. Not as sweet as I expected, more a dull malty taste with a fairly high level of carbonation. Slightly hopbitter aftertaste. Empty mouthfeel to say the least, not bad, but very unspectacular.

Grass, malt and vegetable aroma; sweetish taste with malt and caramel aromas; bitterish finish with caramel , hop, cardboard and dust aromas. A blandish stronger beer. A bit of a dodgy aroma and some stale hop flavours.

Not bad. Smooth clean taste.