Alfa Brummen

Brewed by Alfa Bierbrouwerij
Style: Pilsener
Schinnen, Netherlands

***REVIEW FROM JAN 20, 2007***

This is a bit run on, but I thought this to be humorous enough to share. From the website: "Alfa Brouwerij is the only Dutch brewery to extract its brewing water from a spring certified by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport" .....there’s more..... "Aunt Wies, who has been living at the brewery since 1913, is still tasting the filled beer every morning. No bottle leaves our brewery without her approval!" bahahhha killer! My beer has been approved by someone who can only taste food if it is covered in salt.....here’s my review: Expect nothing but your average Euro brew. Beer is weak pee gold with so much crap floating in in you’d swear that you got a pint poured out of terribly mouldy lines. Instantly created a monster rocky white cap that managed to dissipate to near to nothing. Every swish does produce lots of spotty lacing. Aroma is quite refreshing actually. Lemon hits first and then is followed by dry grass and yeast. The lemon is pretty good actually! Taste is off a bit, but nothing bad - just something a bit different. You’ll still find the usual yeast and dryness with grass and an odd strong bitterness that does not quite fit in but does distinguish this beer as not totally run of the mill...maybe I should check the bottom of the bottle for Aunt Wies’s dentures...... I’m not sure if I should give this a 7 or a 5 for taste. Mouthfeel is ok with lots of carbonation. Light bodied obviously. Touch sour (very tiny ammount). Varying levels of bitterness. Oxydized. I’m not sure if this is a clone of Alfa Brummen or if it’s just an export only version but it will do. If I have to look at all the garbage floating around in my glass anymore I might puke. Looks like it’s half frozen. Beer is good though.

Bottle 35cl. Pours a clear golden colour with a normal size head and good carbonation. Just like the Eindhoven Reserva, this was only brewn for export and is not brewn anymore as far as I know. Smell is very hoppy and grassy. Taste is also about the same but has a nice bit of bitterness.

355ml bottle. Grassy and hoppy aroma. Pours with a light golden colour and good frothy head. Biscuity, grassy and hoppy flavour with a lot of sweetness in the flavour. Not great, but better than a lot.

Aroma of corn and perhaps some hop. Perhaps not. Light golden color with a non-lacing white head that didn’t stay long. Starts corny sweet. Nearly medium mouthfeel. The good news is that there is a reasonable amount of hop in the finish. Arguably this deserves the label pilsener, and definitely deserves a much higher rating than mass-Bud.

Bright yellow, initially tall white head that fades quickly. Corny-grainy aroma, not a lot in the hops department. A disappointing and bland pale lager, not worthy of pilsener status.

Amber/golden color, thin head, like a pils/pale-lager, nice grainy but less hops,...good to drink

Green bottle. Pale yellow. Cornfield aptly described the odor as mineral water. Depsite the snow outside, this is a lawnmower beer. Fair sweetness. No real hops. Almost no taste. Wouldn’t suprise me if it also had no alcohol.

Bought a 12 pack of this junk the other day. Not sure if mine had seen the light or what but it’s horrible. Rotten tasting - a drainpour. This is why I should try beers before buying large quantities.