Beer Works Centennial Alt

Brewed by Beer Works
Style: Altbier
Boston, Massachusetts USA

This beer pours medium amber. It sgows notes of nuts and malt on the nose. The palate shows some deeper hints of toasted malt with a slight sweet finish.

Tap at Salem Beer Works. Pours a clear dark amber with an off-white head. Light, nutty aroma. Medium-to-light body and light carbonation. Starts sweet, almost chewy, with nuts and a bit of fruit, and fades to a spicy dry finish.

Date: 02/08/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub, Fenway

clear dark amber, fine beige head, thick lace, rich well hopped caramel malt aroma, rich dry caramel malt flavor, touch of chocolate, lots of tasty hop character, very well balanced,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Draught at brewpub. Clear copper body with a small off-white head. Very basic harmless caramelized malts. Flavours of all-bran cereals mixed with breakfast berries jam and some wood. Woody hops with almost no bitterness. Short finish leaving only light fruity after-taste. Nothing offensive with it, just very basic and not very tasty. I usually find Altbiers to be very fine session beers but this Beer Works is a beer that needs more work.

on tap- pours a creamy retaining off white head and copper color. Aroma is sweet caramel medium malt. Taste is sweet caramel medium malt, secondary hops. Minimum carbonation.

Deep brown-amber beer with a thick white head. Aroma is quite interesting, minerally with a herbal hop character. A bit of light smokiness as well. Faint cherry and toast and also an earthy resinousness in the nose. Flavour is a bit more straightforward. Cherry fruit, bracing minerally dryness and a faint hint of smoke again. Flavour is well-balanced by noble/herbal hop character. Moderate bitterness with light toast and sweet berryish esters throughout.

Dark brown beer, with a nice off-white head. Gently malted aroma - somewhat sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. The flavor is very pleasant and easy to drink. Nice clean finish.

Tap at the Canal Street location - a very nice Alt - dark red with a slight brown tint, and a fabulous, foamy head - just a mild sweetness on it, with a very pleasant dry character, which is great, since so many alts tend to lean toward the sweet end of the spectrum these days - lingering toasty/roasty, crisp bitterness - I like.