Hannen Alt

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Amber colour, beige head. Aroma is malty, earthy and slightly caramellish. Flavour is semisweet malts along with big time hops. Aftertaste is kind of caramel mixed with appleish sourness and grass.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Standard copper color with a generous fluffy initial head, great retention, very nice lacing all the way down. The aroma was a little funky, some chemical/plastic type aromas over some grassy hops, caramel. Flavor was a train wreck of some semi-sweet sickly tasting caramel sloppily placed at the fore with nasty chemical and plastic flavors. Grassy hops more noticeable in this alt than any other alt I've had, although nothing like a pilsner. Just a bad beer from my favorite style, no idea what they were shooting for. If this were the first altbier I'd tasted, I probably still wouldn't be a beer drinker today. Mouthfeel was dry.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Well, I wouldn't say that this is unavoidably horrible or bad, per se..., but not something that I'd want to investigate again.

Typical 500mL germanic bottle. Dull in the appearence -- the fleeting head during the pour, that went by the way-side in scant minutes. Vaguely old coffee-ish aroma, with *perhaps* a hint or two of some hops in the nose.

Things take a turn for the better in the flavor profile, with a decent amount of front-of-the-boil bitterness (typical for the style). A bit toffee-ish, too, that gives this beer a vague roasty-ish impression in the mouthfeel.

Much room for improvement, especially in the overall drinkability. This all seems quite staid and routine -- more like a typical sub-par, rather stale Amber ale, than a decent example of an authentic Alt.

There are better examples of Altbiers out there, from both sides of the Atlantic...
//TB

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

(Draught). Mmmm... this is good stuff. A well rounded altbier IMO. Nutty and malty flavour with a hint of herbs and caramel.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle. Poured a clear dark amber colour, with a rocky, off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and nutty. Flavour is dominated by a thirst quenching hoppy bitterness, behind which a sweet malty flavour can just be discerned. Highly carbonated with a medium mouthfeel. Dry finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Not the best alt, but I like it.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This alt pours with a muddy brown body topped by a thin head with little lacing. The aroma is slightly sweet, malty and nutty with a slight butterscotch note. The flavor is slightly sweet, malty and slightly nutty with a nice bitterness for balance and a touch of roastiness. Medium bodied, smooth and dry.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 7

As Altbier goes, this is one of my favourites. Much smoother than Diebels or Kutcher Alt and with an excellent flavour.