Ten Years Alt
Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Altbier Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.70
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The Victory version of this ‘secret’ offering is inspired by the rich brewing heritage of the alt beers. It is a dark ale exhibiting the love of hops and mastery of malt that Victory has displayed for 10 years. Initially assertive with spicy hops, Ten Years Alt concludes ever so comfortably in rich, roasted malts and burnished hop character.
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3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Just plain old beery aroma, nothing offensive and no hint of the hop flavorburst within. Looks like rootbeer in my sniffer. Probably one of the strongest alt beers I’ve ever tasted at 8.5%. IMHO, taste is way too hoppy for an alt. Almost comes across like an IPA! IPA lovers better check this stuff out. Leaves a bitter lingering finish, like any other IPA, in your mouth. Way too many IPA characters for this pale lager lover. Generally, I really like alts but this stuff is over the top in hops. For the style, cannot hold a candle to other alts like Schell Schmaltzs Alt, Erie Brewing Heritage Alt, Southampton Secret Ale, Penn Alt er Ego or even John Harvard’s Alt Bier. Finish is hop mouth coating soapy chewing on grapefruit rinds terrible lingering bitter. Go figure, should be styled as an IPA. Probably on par with Otter Creek Copper Ale.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jul 2008
at 15:32
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Orangey head. Large Munich malt aroma full of biscuits and breadcrust. Richly caramelly, sweet Munich overdose. A shade husky/minerally. Decent, but perhaps too assertive for my taste.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2008
at 10:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(35.5cl bottle, bb Aug. 06, courtesy of Papsoe) Hazy, murky amber colour with a short, but slowly lacing tanned foamy head. Moderately sweet toast-malty, slightly yeasty nose with caramel and shy herbal, slightly woody hoppy notes in the background. Quite bitter flavour, almost full bodied with a soft carbonation. Toasty malty taste with caramel and notes of liquorice, even a very subtle (berry-)fruity tail is detectable; quite dry and bitter, toasty and herbal hoppy finish with a noticeable alcoholic note. Uncommon Alt in the “Sticke”-style, all in all not bad and it seems to mature quite well (22.03.08).
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2008
at 15:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Special thanks to ilovedarkbeer for this underated retired brew. Marked to "enjoy by Aug 01 06." My first expiriance with Altbier. Aroma is heavy bready malts with an undertone of spicy orange hops and dried fruits. Appearence includes some of the best lacing I have seen in a while, truly excellent. Head is a largish tan with good retention. Body is a hazy amber-orange ala oktoberfest style brews. Taste over the long duration ends bitter and slightly metallicy in the aftertaste (a product of being bottle aged?). Medium body with a creamy texture and lively carbonation. I feel that it is missing some sort of boldness in the finish, but that could be due to my lack of familiarity with this type of beer. Very good, and underrated in my opinion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2008
at 22:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Beautiful amber color. Aroma of caramel. Strong mouthfeel, strong taste of dark caramel, almost burnt sugar, molasses. Good and powerful, but the bitterness in the end is too strong.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2007
at 09:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Small, slightly irregular brownish head over hazy foxy-amber beer. Extremely malty nose, some kind of diet (corn) flakes, caramel; and all of it very intense, on the verge of astrigent (or at least its nasal counterpart). Malt syrup. Oxydized malts... can’t find a BBD... Again a sweet, grain-derived syrup as malt- or cornsyrup. But with discernible oxydation. There’s no hops imprint, even when the overall flavour certainly isn’t as sweet as the "syrup" would impose on itself. Quite sweet anyhow. Ends a bit leafy, earthy, nutty. Slight, portwine-like viscosity: medium bodied at least. Don’t understand about the oxydation. Certainly less fine-malted than a Schumachers’ (let alone their Latzen!), and Zum Uerige contains about 3x as many German hops...
Tried
from Can
on 20 Mar 2007
at 16:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured a murky brownish orange from the bottle with a frothy, lacing slightly tan head. Malty aroma, but also spicy. Yeasty and grainy flavor, slightly malty. Astringent afer taste in which the alcohol is obvious. This beer might be better if the alcohol was mellowed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2006
at 20:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Slightly hazy amber golden with an off-white head. Aroma of caramel and aroma hops. Fairly full body with lots of caramel malt and a very bitter finish. But Altbier? At 8.5% ABV?? No way. 160806
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2006
at 08:52
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
[Bottled, thanks chris_o!] Amber colour. Ashy nose. Sweetish with clean, rounded mouthfeel and medium body. Finishes with some salty licorice. A bit shallow in character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2006
at 14:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours dark amber into an altbier glass. Spicy fruit aromas. Slight off-white head skims surface. Creamy and full with upfront, creamy malt notes which turns quickly to a bitter grapefruit finish.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2006
at 18:18