Lucky Labrador Crazy Ludwigs Alt

Brewed by Lucky Labrador Brewing Company
Style: Altbier
Portland, Oregon USA

Orange golden pour with a nice lasting white head and fantastic lacing. The aroma is very hops with hints of citrus and pine along with some toasted caramel malts. The flavors is pretty straightforward caramel followed by a nice dose of grapefruit and pine. Did not strike me as an alt at all, but I really liked the nice hop profile.

Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Malty hoppy grapefruit and pine aroma with some caramel hints. Malty hoppy grassy grapefruit and caramel flavor. Has a malty hoppy grapefruit finish.

Draft. A copper colored beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet maltyh with hoppy notes of grass. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and grass as well as light notes of grapefruit. The body is thin. Good for an IPA, but nowhere near an Alt.

Dark amber in color. Starts out with sweet caramel malts finishes in a crisp to harsh hop bitterness that eventually dries.

Draft: Pours deep mahogany cloudy red with tiny off white head. Not much aroma, what there is is brown sugar, toffee and fresh hops. Flavor is pretty nice fresh malts and hops. Tastes very fresh and bright. Notes of toffee and some diacetyl butterscotch. I dont think its off just a slight diacetyl from the kind of yeast they are probably using. It adds to the overall candyness of this beer. It also has a lot of toasty and roasted notes with mild bittereness and fruit esters. Almost tastes like an irish stout only not dry. Pretty good.

Deep mahogany amber body with a rim-clenching white bubbly head. Bright sweet, candied nose with notes of crsip fresh hops and choice hops. Fruity, lemony, cotton candy finish with a great hop-to-malt balance. Sweet!

Arôme de syrop d’érable et de Miel. Au goût, on perçoit un houblon floral et un léger goût de sucre d’orge

Last stop in Portland during ABA Beer Tour 07. On draught at the brewpub pours a semi-clear brownish amber brew (resembling iced tea) with a thin off-white head that quickly dissolves to a fine film. Aroma of multi-grain malt, graoefruit and lemon zest and a touch of pine. Taste is slightly sour, medium bodied and lightly carbonated. Flavors picked up in clude multi-grain malt and pine, but not as over-powering as the Magnum PA. Finish is dry with a lingering bitter aftertaste.