Copper Alt
Zipline Brewing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
Altbier Regular|
Score
6.66
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Hops: Magnum, Hallertau & Sterling
Malts: Pilsner, Carahell, Special B, Caramel, & Carafa
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Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Jow, best by 1/14/2025, drunk 11/13/24. Rich, intense copper. Semi-viscous with high clarity and a dark beige head that is large and slowly recedes to cover. Rich tofffee, caramel, melanoidins and good acidity with red fruits and low hopping. Yeast signature provides crispness on the finish. Clean and highly aromatic. Fruity yeast with a touch of chocolate and hazelnut as they say, with red fruits galore and a sumptuous malt depth that is properly dry on the finish alongside appropriate acidity from malt, hops and yeast. Excellent execution, balance, flavor, cleanliness. Quite impressed by my first Zip Line beer.
superspak (10160) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 7/8/2019. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep orange/copper/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, roasted nuts, and brown bread dough/crust; with lighter notes of toffee, raisin, plum, peach, pear, red apple, wood, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, roasted nuts, and brown bread dough/crust; with lighter notes of toffee, raisin, plum, peach, pear, red apple, wood, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, roasted nuts, brown bread dough/crust, light toffee/dark fruit, wood, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, fairly crisp/sticky, and lightly chalky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.2%. Overall this is a delicious altbier. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Great clean and nicely rich dark/bready malt showcase; with balancing earthy hops, and restrained yeast fruitiness. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example.
shrubber (15840) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Nutty toffee malt and earthy dry hay aroma. Dark copper with moderate tan head. Lightly sweet toffee malt, and mildly bitter/astringent dry hay flavor. Good body and balance. A spot-on Altbier - would stand up to many German examples.
jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - pours amber white head - nose and taste of toast, lager yeast and caramel malt - medium body
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle. Unfiltered thick brown-amber body. Maybe a little thicker, heavier than a Dusseldorf Alt. Does have some mild nutty tone, so you could easily call this a nut brown as well. Lacks what I consider the hop balance of an Alt. Nitpicking aside, this is still a pretty enjoyable beer, which piques my interest in the brewery.
GenDV138 (9261) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can shared at DCLawyer’s, thanks Chris! Clear amber with beige head. Aromas of malt, caramel. Tastes of malt, caramel. Light body with a dry finish.
CLW (17000) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the brewery. Clear copper color mild head. Aroma of caramel,toasted grain, earth.
Flavor is lightly Yeasty then some caramel, cereal hrain, mild hop level. Light body, smooth texture, medium carbonation. Easy to drink.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Poured into a stange, the appearance was a semi-deep brown color with some amber hues along the edges. Creamy colored finger’s worth of white foamy head. Dissipates slow. Slight messy lace.
The aroma had some toast, nuts, sweet meat. Then roast and a touch of chocolate.
The flavor blends the sweet to the roast fairly nice. Some earthiness and then a touch of spice. Crisp sweet to roasty aftertaste. Touch of sweet meat in the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt fine for what it projected.
Overall, good as a beer. Altbier-wise, well, I want to say that \"sweet meat\" I was getting was supposed to emulate German lager yeastiness. Me, I’m not sure, but I would have this one again for me. Altbier lovers, you might like this, but I almost want to say that the brewery didn’t use a German alt yeast in this.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Copper Alt from Zipline Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Growler thanks to Rainer. Pours copper with medium off white head that lasts. The aroma is grain and bready malt. Medium mouth, bready malt, caramel, roast, ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1
From a bottle at the RB DC tasting September 6. It is a light amber color with a slight head. The aroma is floral and the taste is a bitter thin bread and caramel.