Schell Schmaltzs Alt

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Altbier
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

Dark brown with medium tan head. Aroma of sweet malts, caramel, brown sugar and toffee. Taste of sweet malts, caramel and dark malts with some chocolate coming through on the back end. Smooth and creamy, another decent offering from August Schell.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of Naka. Pours brown with cherry-red hues, topped with a small, half-finger fizzy, dark khaki head. Nose is mostly caramel with slight chocolate roast and some estery banana notes. Taste is surprisingly complex, lot of caramel with some chocolate and coffee notes, which are overtaken by a healthy dose of bitter and mild earthy and floral hop flavor. The beer ends with some mild banana notes which fades slowly to a mild hop bitterness and surprisingly powerful alcohol flavor in the after. Great mouth feel with moderate to low carbonation. Delicious.

Pours a dark brown opaque color with a 1 cm light tan head. Aroma of some roasted bananas with brown sugar and caramel. The flavor is very roasty with some notes of coffee and bitter chocolate. A few fruity notes under there, but very surprising considering the aroma. A pretty rich and creamy body. Another good offering from Schell.

12oz bottle. Pours a dark mahogany with a nice brownish head. Aroma is rather rich, with strong notes of roasted malt and hops alongside subtler hints of caramel, yeast, and chocolate. Taste is very creamy and rather full, with an initial buildup of tart hops and heavily roasted malt giving way to a long, sweet finish of chocolate, and caramel. A wonderful surprise from Schell’s.

Very dark brown/dark amber with creamy head. Smells like our home smelled when I was young on the farm and grandma would roast barley to mix in with the coffee to make it go farther. Taste is like something I have always known but never tasted. Sweet and dark and earthy all at the same time. To find a flavor like this is why people rate beers.

flat out THIS IS GOOD BEER!. It tastes the way a good ale should. There is nothing pretentious or fancy about it. When i imagine my great grandfather drinking beer, i imagine he drank something like this. (lucky) Nice color, nice natural head. great blend of sweetness and a slightly bitter hoppiness at the end.

Big foamy cream colored head, slow fall on a dark brown beer. Strong yeast nose. It has a simple burnt malt and bitter hop flavor. Not to much of any thing. With the simple flavor and the lighter palate I think you could drink these all day long.....In fact, I think I will.

(bottle) Pours reddish amber with an off-white head. Aroma is pretty sweet with some dark fruit, molasses, and some barley as well. Taste is initially sweet with caramel, fruit, and as the beer warmed a roasted character was detected. The beer is medium bodied with a little light bitter finish at the end. All in all not a bad beer.