Southampton Altbier

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Altbier
Southampton, New York USA

Pours with ample carb and a brown creamy head. Spicy, rooty and caramel aromas typical of dark german beers. Very dry with a bitter finish.

Pours a light orange hue, thick offwhite lasting head, lacing on the glass, brilliant clarity. Nose is rich pilsner and munich malts, hints of euro hops, and slight esters. Flavor is spot-on for the style: rich, well-attenuated malts with hints of nuttiness, moderate noble hop bitterness and flavor, slight mineral tones in the dry finish. Medium body, smooth to watery texture, medium carbonation. A wonderful example of a rarer style, this embodies the Dusseldorf alt genre, very flavorful and easy-drinking in the session range, I almost finished mine before I started rating!

Pours a cooper color with a half inch tan foamy head. Aroma of caramel. Taste is nutty and bread like.A hint of fruit. A little watery.

A bit sweet and smoky in the nose. Looks decent, thick head, dark orange brown. Very malty palate, also a bit dry and once again a bit of smoke. Interesting and decent.

Medium brown pour. Sweet aroma. Not real familiar with type of brew. Raisiny taste on front end. Sweet aftertaste like a lager.

12oz bottle into a Kolsch glass. A straight pour for even a second reveals an enormous head - watch out for that one. The beer is reddish orange brown that isn’t exactly cloudy, but it isn’t exactly clear either. The aroma is some grain, a bit of must, and a hint of butterscotch. The flavor is roasty bitter with a good helping of butterscotch. The mouthfeel is thin and creamy with medium-low carbonation.

Pretty good beer. Bottle from Whole Foods. Pours a light brown with almost no head and little lace retention. Faint aroma, almost undetectable, of light and sweet malts. Flavor is interesting, not like my usual fare. Sweet and malty up front with - what’s that? - some traces of fruitiness. After the initial taste the flavor morphs into something more bitter with some noticeable hop character. Light to medium in body with nice carbonation. This beer leaves a slightly bitter, sticky aftertaste, somewhat akin to an IPA. Very sneaky, Mr. Altbier. I’ll have to try this again.

Pint on tap at local bar. Pours a dark brown color, minimal head. Aroma is very subtle, perhaps malty and yeasty. Taste is similar with high malt character and a little doughy. No real body or aftertaste but sits well on the palate and isnt too rough. Overall nice drink, not too heavy and a good change of pace from more bitter/spicy beers from southampton.