Jrön Grünhopfensticke
Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei

 

 

33cl flip top bottle served in a stange. Pours a lovely mahogany hue with a translucent clarity and a four finger, fluffy, off-white head. Nose reveals hints of malt (toasted and caramel), with earthy/spicy notes in the background. Malts continues in the flavor profile; however, there’s also some cardboard notes. Mouthfeel is light-medium on body with a mild, even carbonation. Overall, not sure if this is a little past it’s prime, but it’s a bit muddled.

Poured from the original flip top bottle, it pours a hazy brown color with a modest light brown head that slowly reduces and leaves some lacing. The nose gets fall scents, with some grassiness coming through. The mouth gets a bit of bitterness from the hops, followed by caramel and some spice. Interesting brew.

(11,2 oz bottle, L325021; purchased single off shelf at Bella Vista today... decanted into a Collins glass)

L: clear, auburn liquid; gloriously tight, creamy tan foam... lovely misty ring round the top of the glass...

S: cacophonously brown-bready, oily-toasty-nutty, earthy-woody malt bounty... its expression and intensity is unparalled among any Alt riffs I've sniffed... leather, leavened lusciousness... I can't wait to slurp

T: its bitterness is hitting from the start, though the malts exalt... mahogany, mercurial caramel; top note of alpine aromatics... an almost arugula peppery-ness buried in bready braids... satiating yet supple... wood, toast, wood, earth, herbstravaganza

F: as luscious in texture as its scents, sure... drops off dry enough, but leaves a lingering, smoldering toasty glow... expanding swell immediately followed with rolling residuals... damn; plush then wash

O: this bottle held up quite nice... gonna get and gift a few more (2073)

 

Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei "Jrön Grünhopfensticke"
11.2 fl. oz. brown glass swing-top bottle coded "L32021" and sampled on 1 June 2022
$5.95 @ Bella Vista Beer Distributor, Philadelphia, PA

Notes via stream of consciousness: The alcohol is listed as 6.0% ABV. It's poured a hazy chestnut brown body beneath a full head of light tan foam. The aroma is malty with some dark caramel, sweet apple, and some herbal hops. On to the taste... it's got a lot of caramel malt to it giving it notes of both light and dark caramel but it's also straighforwardly grainy and sweet. The hops are herbal, spicy, straw-like, leafy, and earthy. It's solidly bitter and it finishes dry, herbal, earthy, bitter, and a touch spicy and woody. Some apple and a light touch of pear rounds it out. It's not a really complicated beer but it's fairly rich and quite satisfying. In the mouth it's medium in body with a gently bristling, fine-bubbled carbonation. The head held up nicely and I still have an almost solid surface covering and some very nice lacing left behind. I was only recently in Düsseldorf and I was able to enjoy their standard alt on tap. If my memory hasn't failed me I find this a little softer in terms of how the bitterness comes through the malt, and thus smoother. The added hops are a bonus.
Review #8,037

12oz can into a pint glass. NO freshness dating.

Very mixed look to this one. Murky brown body with a lot of dark particulates. These eventually sink to the bottom. There are nice streams of carbonation. Decent foamy white head hardly shrinks at all, excellent lacing.

A lot in the aroma department as well. Some apple, mixed spice, faintly floral. A light sourness, which may speak to its age. Even a hop presence wafts in and out.

On tasting, quite dry. Strong spice flavor, but blends well with the apple, malt, and light hop flavor. Very well balanced.

Mouthfeel is quite soft, almost feels uncarbonated. Between medium and full. Finish is a dry spicy fruitiness, with even a touch of sweetness here and there.

Overall, very interesting and complex beer. All categories have something of interest to report.

Can, 2020 version, from Beermongers.

A deep amber with a dense brown head with excellent retention and lacing this looks great. The nose is rich, bready and hoppy, and with a depth that most stateside alts lack. Deep caramel, bitter brown sugar, light toffee and with a pronounced hoppy character, minty, earthy and spicy, with the mix smelling not unlike a fresh rye bread. The palate opens with a blend of bitterness and deep, rich malt, creamy with brown sugar, dough, a delicate fruity flavor, burnt sugar, toffee. Spicy, earthy hops follow, with a mild oily character that pairs well with the malt. Bitter on the finish with lingering toffee and bread. Creamy, medium in body, this is excellent.

Can purchased at Delaware Supply in Albany, NY.

This one pours a fairly dark brown color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like spicy hops, chocolate, breadiness, malt spice, coffee, and dark fruit.

This is much heavier than I would have thought it would be - it's very hearty and very malty, with a little bit of hop spice and bitterness. There's chocolate, breadiness, coffee, raisin, plum, etc - this is super complex.

This is medium bodied, and very creamy, with a nice balance of sweetly malty and bitter hoppy.

Uerige is one of the most underrated German breweries, and I like to see them playing around with one of my favorite German styles.

Poured from a tap. Dark reddish brown body with a slight brown creamy head. Aroma is cherry, mocha, and a slightly sour Aroma. The taste is malty, like freshly baked muffin. Hints of coffee, plum and cherry. Finish is slightly bitter. A really interesting beer in a style I'm not used to seeing much. Very good.

No canning date; consumed on 5/29/21

Pours a nearly foggy dark brown body with muddied maroon accents and topped with a finger and a half of fluffy, dense, dirty white head; solid head retention leaves a quarter-finger of thin, creamy cap, moderate, frothy collar, and dense, almost chunky rings of webby/spotty lacing circling the walls of the glass. 3.25

Aroma opens with an affront of cedar backed with linoleum varnish, a gritty, peppery malt spice developing only over time alongside the mossy hops bringing an underlying fruitiness while a sensation of minerality courses delicately throughout.

Taste shows freshly varnished cedarwood with undertones of prominent, peppery hop spice upfront; sensations of used black tea leaves embrace an earthier tone over the mid-palate as orange oil, wet sandalwood, and apricot zest on the back end offer a fruity tinge to the finish.

Mouthfeel offers a body on the lightest side of medium alongside a fluffy dispersion of prickly carbonation easing to a densely herbal bitterness and underlying resinous textures; a crispness peaks briefly over the mid-palate, quickly thinning to an almost watery consistency contrasting a paper-dryness through the finish.

An almost pungent malt spice guides more traditional altbier characteristics to the brink of potent expression, sacrificing both depth and longevity on the palate; strength of profile ultimately struggles to overcome a primarily uninspired construction here, especially one lacking much focus.

Single can from Party Source
Brown in color with a off white head, good retention.
Not a usual alt taste but still good.

 

 

 

Bottle at Prost! Murky light brown pour with small foamy head, poured into a teku. Aroma leans toward the traditional alt nuttiness, with some additional earthy, grassy notes. Taste also reveals more of the meadow notes, likely from the hops. Interesting take on the style, and buy no means hoppy by American standards.

 

 

Poured from the can into a stange.

Beautiful deep caramel red looking body, with hints of clarity and an orange glow. Khaki colored frothy large head out of the can, easily making a fistfull with big retention and swiss cheese like bubbles. Great looking brew.

Classic alt on the nose with a big kick. Dry hinting clove and spicy malt tones, with a real nice clean quailty, but a big pronounced herbal juicy hop sense and quality. Little touches of soft caramel add a hint of sweetness as well. Real impressive aroma.

Big but fun palate. Rich touches of light caramel with a bitting woody pine and herbal hop presence. Big clove and nutty finish with an exceptionally clean character on the tongue. Exceptional malt backbone but surprisingly light bodied. Wonderful flavors of big clove and rich bitter tea, with a little sharp caramel and green almost pine to bitter rosemary quality.

Real aggressive alt, and real tasty.