General Lafayette Alt! Who goes there?

Brewed by General Lafayette Inn and Brewery
Style: Altbier
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania USA

Name: Alt! Who Goes There?
Date: 07/25/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

cloudy orange, wipsy beige head, sweet fruity malt aroma, sweet malt flavor, lots of fruity sweetness, good dose of earthy hops come in to balance the sweet fruit, light lasting bitter finish

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Clear dark-amber body with off-white head. Aroma is mild sweet, caramel, earthy. Taste is mild sweet, earthy, some pepper, caramel. Light-medium body.

On tap at the Brew Pub. Porued a darker amber color with a small sized white head. Aromas and tastes of caramel, some toffee, a little fruit with some bread. Thinner body.

Amber pour with aroma of malt, some nuts and fruit. Tastes malty, fruity, with a caramel nutty presence.

Sample at the Philly gathering, July 10. Darkish amber, very sweet, lightly smoky/bready nose. Bit of dark fruits in the flavor, dry and bitter late. Some nice stuff here, but doesn’t totally add up.

Tap @ General Lafayette. This poured a pretty hazy amber color with an off-white head. Citrusy hop aoma over an estery malt. The flavor had a malty start with nutty notes. A big big bitter finish.

Poured a copper color with no head or lacing. Light fruity, citrus mild hop aroma. Taste was of light malts, some fruit, and citrus hops as well. Beautiful alt.

Draught pint with Dickinsonbeer at the brewpub on 10/6/06
Interesting appearance on most of their beers. Rather short-lived head, rapidly fizzling away, though it leaves a fair amount of spotty/sticky lacing as it recedes. The beers are all well-conditioned and quite clear, though you can tell only lightly filtered. This one is a deep mahogany with lighter magenta and peach tints when held to the light. The head is light beige in color.
Very minimal aroma, plenty of sourdough notes; toasty, highly attenuated medium malts and a fair amount of almost tannic dryness and acidity. Not overly yeasty, but there is some mineral nature to it and light earthiness. Hops are leafy, soily and rather diluted. Warming produces some faint chocolate sweetness, but it is still stretched very lean across the grainy/toasty, super-attenuated malts.
A high amount of water to malt ratio is notable immediately, being rather wet in the mouth, and the dryness from the nose is very present in the flavor, the malts being lean, highly attenuated and rather acidic/astringent. Some phenol extraction, very light coffee or chocolate with some very minimal yeast-like mineral character on the end. Low carbonation, very light body and just too much toastiness/sourdough without the necessary balancing sweetness/softness of more malt. Hops are again dry, soily and earthy, with a touch of boisterous red fruits emerging upon warming, but otherwise quite muted. No alcohol present.