Uerige Sticke

Brewed by Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei
Style: Altbier
Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

500ml bottle from Battersea BF 2007 drunk on the train on the way home. Deep chestnut colour with thick lasting beige head. I enjoy the slightly off flavours of this beer. Gives it individuality/character with the sliight sour/slight over burnt cereal aroma. Some sour orange zest on aroma. Clean toffee and then this slight clementine/sour orange pith on finish. I love the toasty malt finish on this. There’s even some peppery hop. Certainly the best German beer I’ve had today. Crisp carbonation lends to the peppery hop. Nice.

Bottle, best until 13.02.05. Dark amber color, small head. Vinous aroma with biscuit. Hoppy, very malty flavor. This beer has a good hop character, but that is cahllanged by the malt, the wine-like character and the biscuit and butterscotch flavors. World class beer!. Thanks Dortmunder, for providing me with this gem.

A Mes rate: Bottle at Battersea Beer Festival.
Dark dark amber with a thin off white rim. Really nice German malt aroma with some excellent earthy notes and a pleasant lick of alcohol. Let down a little by a sweaty hint but it doesn’t really spoil it. Good balance of malt and hops in the mouth with some nice tobacco notes next to a delicate candy sugar sweetness. Lovely finish. Decent all rounder.

(Bottle) Packaged in a cool looking flip-top bottle. Pours an amber-brown with a thin white head. Aroma of caramel, sweet malts, and hops. Flavors of caramel, banana-nut bread, malts, and butterscotch. Enjoyable beer.

11 oz bottle-pours a creamy tan head with red color. Aroma is malt. Taste is malt, roasty, sweet. Caramel and hops finish. OK carbonation.

Orange brown body with a foamy white head. Aroma presents rather vague bready and earthy malt which is caramelic. Surprisingly, yeast plays an important part giving it an interesting banana fruitiness. The 60 ibus appear rather well hidden though, mostly displayed as peppery hints. It doesn’t seem too complex though. Once you take a sip though, it’s immediately superior to the aroma. There’s a very spicy hoppiness complementing the beautiful yeast. The image I’d use to describe it is a flower in a cemetary. Aftertaste is rather complex as well, grassy, green, robust yet balanced with tea hints. Medium bodied with rather low carbonation. I didn’t expect to enjoy it that much and was expecting an hyped alt for it’s rather rare, but this is worth seeking.

Bottle from manchester winter beer fest, thanks to ronnie. Dated 11/01-21/02? Aroma was quite minimal, nutty malts, bittering hop and notes of alcohol. Taste is similar quite a bit of bittering hop, as you expect from these chaps the hoppiest of all the alts, drinkable enough. However not a scratch on the normal alt. This was bottled which is almost a fake rating for a alt, it should over ever be had from wooden cask in dusseldorf.

Bottle... Clear copper ale with a mid-sized, frothy, off-white head. Good retention. Malty, herbal aroma... toffee, dried fruits and medicinal notes with a touch of licorice. Malty flavor, but very well-bittered for good balance. Full-bodied and deeply creamy with moderate carbonation. Lingering, bitter finish.