Moosbacher Alt Kellerbier

Brewed by Private Landbrauerei Scheuerer
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Moosbach, Germany

Pours golden amber with a thin, mostly receding off-white head. Aroma of light carmel and toffee, some noble hop firmness. Tastes is lightly sweet, bready, malty, light herbal bitterness, with an earthly yeastiness. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with lively carbonation.

Thin body - light caramel color. Very smooth and drinkable, but the slight metallic aftertaste kills this one for me. Nice try though from a style you don’t see much of.

500 ml brown swingtop bottle, BBD 10/2006, purchased somewhere in Wisconsin in October 06 I think, imbibed from a Ramstein weissbier glass in late October 2006. Whew, just under the deadline! This pours a dark clear amber-brown with a voluminous, bubbly, off-white slow-decaying head....delctate perfumy floral notes emanate from the sparse dry grassiness....beautiful wafts of pale Munich malt, light and artfully balanced hints of carameliztion and just the faintest whiffs of acrid smokyness arise from the....earthy-sweet body with more of that lovely floral character, rustic wildflower honey, some chalky-mineralic notes submerged in an overall strongly sweet body, with little to no hops, just a bit too filtered and thin late in the mouthfeel though the carbonation feels natural....finish rather bitter, trace of dry woody hops along with metalic touches. Some problems, but they are slight in comparison with the achievments here: it all adds up to a magnificently complex and subtle kellerbier; I’m sure the freshness of my sample was a big factor, but this is just wonderful. Get some.

Savannah, Ga. - Habersham Beverage Warehouse - 500 ml flip top bottle. Dark copper pour, light white head. Fresh lake water aroma, hints of caramel. Nutty, somewhat sweet flavor with some vegetable notes, caramel and a back end of mint. Stays strong to the finish - does not peter out. Mouthfeel is strudy and somewhat thick. Very drinkable and belly filling.

This flippy top bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy fine to medium sized off-white colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent softly carbonated caramel brown colored body and a good lacing. The mild aroma was sweet musty and caramel malt. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a medium sweet aftertaste. The thin flavor contained notes of malt and sweet. A decent one but not one that I would consider buying again due to its lack of significant flavor.

Dark amber colored, little yellow head. Butter, sweetness, nuts and some spinach in this earthy aroma. Medium bodied. Flavor is also earthy and hopped with some caramel and flowers, aftertaste is short and round with some butter.

Bottle. Pours a thin amber with ample head and lacing. Aroma is caramelized leaves, and the flavor follows suit. Thin mouthfeel. Eh, I’ll pass next time.

clear orange colored with no head. malty and slight hop aroma. mildy spiced with caramel malts and some sweetness. dry finish. nicely carbonated. very good.