Original Pinkus Alt
Brauerei Pinkus Mueller

*archived rating*

 

Poured from a bottle into a glass. Cloudy gold color with very light head. A sweet fruity smooth smell and taste

Poured into a Sester stange. Pours a medium orange amber with a fizzy, one finger white head that dissipates to patches with light lacing. Aroma of bready and biscuit malt, over-ripe light stone fruit, hints of citrus and apple. Flavor is bready and lightly grainy malt, apple, green grape, mild honey, tart citrus; tart fruit finish. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. This one is tough to review; this is apparently the Münster style of altbier, which I've never tried (nor even heard of). It looks different even in the pour, which is a lighter golden color rather then true amber. The flavor is interesting, starting with somewhat sweet fruity malt, but finishing with a fruit tartness that is lighter than, but reminiscent of a gose. The alt style is growing on me and I've been trying any I run across, which is rare. The style has a lot of variation in malt and flavor; this is most different. I like the initial fruit malt flavor, but the tartness, while relatively mild, unsettles me a bit each taste. After reading up on the Münster style, I think this beer gets lower review points because of the unexpected tartness, but it is an intentional style feature. While not exactly to me taste, it seems like a well made ale that fits the flavor profile it promises. And to its credit, I enjoyed it more than most tart ales.Worth a try for an uncommon local style.

 

 

 

RB transfer

Hazy light orange, meringue like white head.
Smells like a feed-store, dried apricots, and baking bread.
Tastes exceedingly rich, malty, dried apricot, brown sugar, on the sweet side, but, the sweetness is not cloying. It has the perfect amount of hops to counteract the sweetness.
I don’t think I’d want more than one 500ml bottle, it’s very intense, a huge flavor bomb.
I highly recommend.

Hazy, yellow color. Malty aroma with notes of hay and a hint of fruits. Crispy, malty taste with moderate bitterness and some fruitiness. A rare example of the style.

Tasty. Refreshing. Light but with a good enough malt backbone to be enjoyed during colder weather. Not sure if it fits style. More of a robust Kolsch. CHEERS!

Copenhagen 27/7 2023. 50 cl bottle from Edeka Center Bremen Hastedt, Pfalzburger Strasse, Bremen. Red label with drawing of a cityscape with churches and old towers.

Pours clear yellow with a mid-sized white head. Stable. Settles thin layer of foam stretching to covert surface of the beer. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is medium intensewith sweet malty odor with a bit of sugar on top. Sweet pale malts, bread, cardboard, white sugar and a ghost-like whiff of citrus and grass.

Medium strong carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a rather strong sweetness followed by a moderately strong bitterness. Aftertaste is sweetish. Lingers for bit. Finish is sweet malts and sugar.

Most of all too sweet pale Lager Beer.

 

 

 

 

Look: It pours golden with a bit of haze. It has a white head with average head retention.

Smell: It is fairly malty with a distinct grain aroma. There is no hop aroma to speak of.

Taste: It has a grainy sweet flavor with a bit of honey.

Feel: It has a medium body with a bit of syrup likeness in the mouthfeel.

Overall, it is really not like any alt that I've had. It is like a one note malt beer.

 

 

L:
-pours a clear straw golden colour with a medium,foamy,white head
-medium carbonation visible
S:
-herbal,spicy,grassy,pears,apple,light lactobacillus funk
T:
-grainy,metallic,light sourness and lacto funk,lemon,pears,green apple,ascorbic acid
F:
-medium carbonation
-light-to-medium body
O:
The only commercially available Example of the "Münster-style Altbier", which is a lacto-soured,top-fermented style, which is traditionally called "Altbier" in that Area.Nowadays it is best described as a Kölsch-Berliner Weisse Hybrid.
Drinkers expecting a Düsseldorf/Lower Rhein region-style Altbier (malty,clean,hoppy) might be disappointed.
The Pinkus does have a metallic off flavour, which luckily decreased as the Beer warmed up but was always present.