Moosbacher Alt Kellerbier

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

Date: 04/01/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewfest, Classic City

crystal clear dark yellow, short lived frothy white head, sweet candy caramel aroma, rich caramel malt flavor, mostly sweet, light balancing bitterness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Being only my second kellerbier, i had no idea what to expect and found this intresting. Aroma is fruity, fresh and grassy hops also. Taste is similar very very drinkable. Assuming this is unfiltered as it was cloudy.

Swing-top bottle: Copper coloured, thin and a bit lacing white foamy layer; sweetish malty nose with a touch of caramel and dried fruit; initial slight sweet maltiness; light bitter-sweet flavour; longer lasting finish: combination of dry bitter tones with maltiness. Not great, but goes down well.......

Pouring a deep dirty gold body with a short-lived creamy head, this has a bready, caramel malt aroma topped by an earthy, herbal hopping. I was impressed by the creaminess of this lager. The malts taste like lightly honeyed toast and the hops become more herbal, mildly bitter. A good sessionable brew.

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Lightly hazed copper color with a smaller, tight bubbled, bone colored head. Wild honey, and floral hops aromas.Toasted malt and dark caramel as well. Very smooth in feel. Mild flavors of toasted malt, a bit of acidity and light floral hops. Simple, yet I find not glaring faults. The bottle is slightly dated, but I still find this to be a good brew that was likely better when fresh.

Bottle from Super Saver. Dark straw pour with 1-finger off-white head. Aroma of caramel malt, fruit, hopcitrus. Very maibocky aroma and flavor, with the fruit and hopcitrus taste, and caramel malt notes. This one gets a bit tart as it warms up.

Bottle. Body is medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted bread), with a strong note of DMS. Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately bitter, unclean. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Whew, not much in the nose but a chemically vegetable brine stink. Off aftertaste as well. I certainly hope this was a bad bottle/batch, rather than being representative. The Weissbier was not very good either, however.

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.