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(512) ALT
(512) Brewing Company
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- From:
- (512) Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Altbier
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 11.26%
- Reviews:
- 15
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 21, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 21, 2009
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 6
(512) ALT is a German-style amber ale that is fermented cooler than typical ales and cold conditioned like a lager. ALT means “old” in German and refers to a beer style made using ale yeast after many German brewers had switched to newly discovered lager yeast. This ale has a very smooth, yet pronounced, hop bitterness with a malty backbone and a characteristic German yeast character. Made with 98% Organic 2-row and Munich malts and US noble hops.
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Reviewed by Premo88 from Texas
4.02/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
poured from half-growler (32 oz.) into pilsener glass; half-growler filled Saturday afternoon (Aug. 26) at Harvey Washbangers in College Station
L: 95% clear copper, loads of amber in it, not quite crystal clear but close; pushes up thick fluffy head of beige foam that is stickier than glue; maintains full collar and most of a skin; lacing some on the way down but much more stick off the head than lace; shows moderate but consistent activity in the glass
S: grain, sour grain, almost medicinal at its coldest; as it warms, still hangs on to that light medicinality, you could almost call it herbal or earthy ... or a herbal/earthy mix thing of some kind; as it warms a bit more, it has a toasted bread with a little brown sugar or molasses ... so light but it's there
T: toasted malt, almost peaty at times, grain, toasted grain, some light earth bitterness, and best of all -- a growing oak-wood flavor in the aftertaste that seems to be building and building just a bit more each sip ... very subtle but very tasty
F: very midweight ale soft, almost fluffy, up front with loads of what feels like tiny prickly bubbles giving it a drinkable crisp finish; feels very sturdy and wonderful for both sipping or taking on a good medium-sized swallow
O: not shocking at all that (512) brewed up a heck of an altbier here ... glad I bought a half-growler, and the way that oak-wood aftertaste note builds and builds, I expect the last ounce to be better than the previous 31; the light hint of peat is interesting and arguably perfect for the style ... the peat is not wee heavy levels but enough to give it a good earthy feel; the well-conditioned lager side of this beer makes the mouthfeel a highlight
Aug 27, 2017L: 95% clear copper, loads of amber in it, not quite crystal clear but close; pushes up thick fluffy head of beige foam that is stickier than glue; maintains full collar and most of a skin; lacing some on the way down but much more stick off the head than lace; shows moderate but consistent activity in the glass
S: grain, sour grain, almost medicinal at its coldest; as it warms, still hangs on to that light medicinality, you could almost call it herbal or earthy ... or a herbal/earthy mix thing of some kind; as it warms a bit more, it has a toasted bread with a little brown sugar or molasses ... so light but it's there
T: toasted malt, almost peaty at times, grain, toasted grain, some light earth bitterness, and best of all -- a growing oak-wood flavor in the aftertaste that seems to be building and building just a bit more each sip ... very subtle but very tasty
F: very midweight ale soft, almost fluffy, up front with loads of what feels like tiny prickly bubbles giving it a drinkable crisp finish; feels very sturdy and wonderful for both sipping or taking on a good medium-sized swallow
O: not shocking at all that (512) brewed up a heck of an altbier here ... glad I bought a half-growler, and the way that oak-wood aftertaste note builds and builds, I expect the last ounce to be better than the previous 31; the light hint of peat is interesting and arguably perfect for the style ... the peat is not wee heavy levels but enough to give it a good earthy feel; the well-conditioned lager side of this beer makes the mouthfeel a highlight
(512) ALT from (512) Brewing Company
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
58 ratings
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