Schwelmer Alt

Brewed by Brauerei Schwelm
Style: Altbier
Schwelm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Dark red-brown with no head. Aroma is very sweet and sugary, with a hint of fruit. Flavor is not bad, but definitely too sweet. Not much bitterness or hop character going on. Flat on the palate. I bet the bottle is to blame for the flatness, I’m not sure why they use that rubber stopper. I’m sure this would be a great beer if the used a properly sealed bottle, and aged it a bit to ferment out some of the sugar.

Bottled 50cl. Courtesy of pivnizub. Surprisingly dark. Good head retention. Interesting malty aroma of hay, banana, coconut, raisin, figs and arabic gum. Malty taste. Low bitterness. A lot of coconut showin up again. Nice lacework. Late bitterness. Good balance. Residual sugars, caramel and coconut in the finish. A pleasant Alt. Thanks pivnizub!

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, dried fruits. Flavour is malt, caramel, dried fruits, hop. Medium body. Boring beer.

Bottle. It’s a clear, dark brown beer with a diminishing, creamy, two-finger beige head. Caramel, dried fruits and some faint notes of cellar in the aroma. Nice but a bit weak. Dried fruits, raisins mostly, caramel and roasted notes in the mouth. Silky, medium body. Caramel in the finish. Overall it’s a quite decent beer, caramel driven, but not very interesting. Get’s a bit one-dimensional. 090707

I did not have my beer out of the swing-top bottle, but instead it was out of the stubby bottle. Body was a medium-dark brown cloudy color with a scan off-white head. Aroma is mostly caramel malts with a thin dark fruit character. Body is a touch off with a watered down raisin/caramel flavor. Nothing really special about this one.

Swingtop 0,5ltr: An good decent tasty Altbier with its dark brown colour with hints of caramel.

Brown bottle, 0,5 l, best before 88 10 59, savoured on March 12 2009; eye: brown with a copperish hue, beige head that turns into a sheet, no effervescence, no lacing; nose: malt, dusty, caramel, lightly stale, light Madeira; mouth: thin, watery, maple water, slight malt, lightly stale, slight smoke, dusty, lightly stale finale, not much carbonation, medium body, lightly sweet; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 0,5 l, meilleure avant 88 10 59, savourée le 12 mars 2009; œil : brune avec une teinte cuivrée, mousse beige qui se transforme en une couverture, pas d’effervescence, pas de dentelle; nez : malt, poussière, caramel, légèrement éventée, léger madère; bouche : mince, aqueuse, eau d’érable, très léger malt, légèrement éventée, très léger fumé, poussiéreux, finale légèrement éventée, peu carbonatée, corps moyen, légèrement sucrée; en résumé : ordinaire

Bottle. Pours an amber body with an off white head one finger thick. Malty caramel with some graininess, citrus accents and light fruity esters. A dry malt character and a thin lingering bitterness to boot.