Tuckerman Headwall Alt

Brewed by Tuckerman Brewing Company
Style: Altbier
Conway, New Hampshire USA

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium to dark brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dusty nutty, light coffee. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, and dusty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20090805]

Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 05/08/2009 Bronze mid brown coloured smooth on the palate and a little dry with a crisp lasting malt finish.

Cask at GBBF 2009: Brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of malt and toffee and with grapefruit peel notes. Sweetish malty flavour with a touch of grapefruit and possible horse-y note. Brett infection?

A Mes rate. Gravicask at GBBF.
Mid brown with no head. Fruity, slight chlorine, faint bacon and notes of toffee. Dry herbal finish. Nothing special.

At GBBF 2009. Very dark brown with thin beige head. Slightly sour, pretty good alt style beer, soft on the finish. Really quite good, nice.

Clear rosewood body with a shinning surface. Smell of dark malts and a touch of tart fruits. The taste is dominated by sweet, dark malts. Dry palate. Thin to medium bodied. Gravicask at GBBF, 05.08.2009.

Cask at GBBF 09 ....brown ... sweet odd nose ... sweet toffee light hop ... quite unusual.

12oz bottle, brown color, with a creamy beige head, toasted, biscuity, grainy malt nose, with a mild cookie dough, light toffeeish accent, with a hint of dark dried fruit in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, toasted, caramelized, biscuity, grainy malt character, with some cookie dough, light nutty, dried raisin notes, with a faint flowery hop leafy accent, leading towards a malty, grainy, lingering hop bitterness finish. A nice altbier!