Westfalen Altbier
Folding Mountain Brewing
- From:
- Folding Mountain Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Altbier
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 1.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 12, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 08, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Rasmonton from Canada (AB)
3.45/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Nice medium dark reddish amber colour with thin off-white head. Slightly citrusy aroma. Taste is malty, grassy notes. Quite good overall but a bit thin mouth feel. Low carbonation. I enjoyed mine but probably won’t rush out to get more.
Jan 12, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.59/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Wine & Beyond at Southgate (no indication of who makes this on the tag - quelle surprise!) in Edmonton. I finally caved on this one, and am not particularly happy about it, due to this brewery's recent shitty distribution vector, as such.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some random streaky snow rime lace around the glass as it eventually seeps away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some mild tobacco smoke, faint estery yeast, and plain earthy, weedy, and musty noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, further phenolic yeasty notes, an ethereal ashiness, weak generic fruity essences, and more bland leafy, musty, and herbal 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its weak-sauce frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and sort of smooth, as that hovering smoky essence takes things down a notch or so here. It finishes trending dry, the subtle char tamping down the malt, and the hops easily wafting off into the ether.
Overall - this is an appreciable enough version of the style, with a nice complex malty character, and gentle smokiness that plays well right now at this time of year. What I'm not fond of is the 13-dollar price taggery for a 'local' brew, when they could have shipped stubbies to the proper bottleshops around the province if they really wanted to. I shall remember this.
Dec 08, 2017This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some random streaky snow rime lace around the glass as it eventually seeps away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some mild tobacco smoke, faint estery yeast, and plain earthy, weedy, and musty noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, further phenolic yeasty notes, an ethereal ashiness, weak generic fruity essences, and more bland leafy, musty, and herbal 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its weak-sauce frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and sort of smooth, as that hovering smoky essence takes things down a notch or so here. It finishes trending dry, the subtle char tamping down the malt, and the hops easily wafting off into the ether.
Overall - this is an appreciable enough version of the style, with a nice complex malty character, and gentle smokiness that plays well right now at this time of year. What I'm not fond of is the 13-dollar price taggery for a 'local' brew, when they could have shipped stubbies to the proper bottleshops around the province if they really wanted to. I shall remember this.
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