Schwelmer Alt

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

Pours out a very nice deep copper color with a great foamy head. Flat mild hop aroma. Unfortunately it did not taste as good as it looked. Like the aroma it tasted of low mild hops with light sweet malts. Finished with a little bitterness. A bland brew.

Darkish brown, with mild yeasty and malty aroma. Taste like a subdued barleywine, an understated maudite. Easy drinking. Nothing bold and exciting, but a fine brew.

Bottle. Poured a clear burgundy with a grayish off-white head. Bubbly. A potent nutty malty aroma with a touch of caramel. A bit stale tasting with a dry almondy flavor. Tingly on the palate with a lingering bitterness.

Sweet nutty aroma. Taste is sweet and malty. Finishes smooth with spicy hops aftertaste. Very good and drinkable.

Cola, tea, hay, and roasted malt bouquet. Cola colored with a medium off white head. Malty, weak, and unhoppy. Watery mouthfeel. Subdued sweet tea finish. This is my first alt and it is pretty much what I expected, dark and hopless. The one thing that surprises me is how tea-like it is. It’s not unlike Malta Goya.

This beer pours a dark nutty color with not much of a head to it. There is an aroma of mild fruits and nuts. As you drink it there is a strong flavor of walnuts and mild hops. It also has a tangy after taste on the palate.

A clear chestnut coloured ale covered by a slowly fading off-white head. A very clean example of an alt with the usual toasty, bordering roasty, nutty malt notes complemented by herbal, spicy hops that serve mostly a bittering purpose. It has a certain floral acidity that joins the rest in mouth, but not obtrusively while more clean, earthy, soft malts of limited sweetness sing their song. Not bad.

Deep brown beer with some amber highlights. Dark herbal maltiness. A touch of buckwheat honey, black licorice and molasses. Herbal and slightly fruity. Strangely dry and sweet at the same time. Earthy with a dark caramel nuttiness and a rosemary/thyme herbal character. Anaesthetic hoppiness. Decent brew.