Kutscher Alt

Brewed by Binding-Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Altbier
Frankfurt, Germany

Very nice clear amber coloured beer with a small head. Weak aroma of roasted malt. Light roasted sweet taste. A bit on the thin side. Slightly bitter dry finish.

Nice looking regal tawny brown clear with a small short lasting head. Very faint bready & roasted malt aroma. Smooth soft low carb lightish body. Simple mild bitter lightly sweet roasted malt flavour. Finish has a lifting bit of zing associated with it.

Bottled. Nut brown with brief head. Vague roasty arma. Sweetish, lightly fruity. Lightly papery and very roasty. Fizzy mouthfeel and harsh bitter finish. Everything Binding touches turn to crap.

Cloudy brown beer, acceptable in a wheat but not a barley beer. Nothing special. Not bad, but from appearance I expected a Schneider Aventinus, and this of course wasn’t; despite the cloudy appearance it is a barley beer not a wheat beer. No real complexity or intensity, none of the intense coffee flavors of a dark malt; notably sour finish. This is not a beer to seek out, either in Germany or at home.

looked like altbier and tasted like binding lager. fizzy and thin

Lovely copper color with a nice large white head. Nose is predominately of a light caramel maltiness. Flavor is fairly light, dominated by a moderately sweet caramel flavor, with a good dose of bitterness as well. Had it at the same spot as Muzzlehatch, oddly enough.

On tap at Resi’s Bierstube, Chicago. Clear medium-brown body, medium lasting head. Slight butterscotch in the malty aroma, perhaps hints of nuts and vanilla as well. Flavor follows very similar to the nose, very smooth with a medium body and the aforementioned sweet flavor notes. MMM good.

On tap at Resi’s Bierstube in Chicago (which has a fine selection of German and continental beers). Watery and unremarkable. I would take a Heineken Dark over this Altbier, hands down.