Driftwood Brewery Crooked Coast

Crooked Coast

 

Driftwood Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Altbier Regular
Score
6.55
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 17
Crooked Coast is inspired by the original Alt-style beer of Dusseldorf; “Alt” is German for “old” and the style a vestige of the days before lager yeast was discovered, when ales were what German Brewers produced. A marriage of the aromas of both German noble hops and caramel Munich malt, this quintessential session beer is defined by its delicate malt-hop balance.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Clear Copper pour, with a medium off white head. Aroma is bready, some nice caramel, and a subtle herbiness. Nice mouthfeel, solid, and the carb is perfect. The finish is semi sweet, minimal bitterness with some soft grassy hops in the end with a nice nutty maltiness.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:46


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

473ml can. Pours a clear amber-copper with a medium, creamy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves curtains of lace. Mild aroma of bready caramel malt, toffee, earth and floral hops. Sweet flavour of toasted bready malt, caramel, toffee, grapefruit rind and floral in a dry, bitter grass finish. Light to medium body with an almost creamy, smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Tasty and easy to put back.

Tried from Can on 09 May 2022 at 04:46


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at the Black Frog in Vancouver BC. Pours dark Amber with a creamy beige head. Malty aroma. Med body. Flavor is mildly spicy and malty. Make that moderately spicy. Good alt IMHO.

Tried from Draft on 02 Sep 2016 at 17:09


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Bottle at the xmas tasting. Pours clear orange amber, nose is caramel, toffee, sweaty, taste is similar, kind of horrible. --- Beer merged from original tick of Crooked Coast Altbier on 13 Aug 2016 at 18:59 - Score: 4. Original review text: Bottle at the xmas tasting. Pours clear orange amber, nose is caramel, toffee, sweaty, taste is similar, kind of horrible.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2016 at 03:42


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle at the 2nd Annual Garvie Christmas Tasting. Pours clear amber with a thin white head. Aromas of toffee, light saline. Taste is sweet, herbal, loads of toffee. Sweet finish. Dull.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2016 at 08:23


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

bottle at home .. amber ... thick tab head ... soft sweet toffee fruit nose ... herbal hay fruit .. grassy toffee malt... herbal toffee fruit

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2016 at 08:22


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle: Poured a clear light copper color Alt with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry caramel malt with light cereal notes is quite enticing. Taste is also a mix of dry caramel malt notes with some clean cereal notes. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Not bad for the style but missing some of the yeast signature associated to the style.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2016 at 08:43


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

650ml bottle. Nutty brown colour, slightly hazy with a thick white head. Caramel,grassy aroma. Caramel dominates the flavour too, but with a hoppy bite on the finish

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2016 at 17:33


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Draught at Tap & Barrel, Coal Harbour, Vancouver
Hazy amber color; huge head, difficult to pour. Light malt aroma with very light esters. Smooth mouthfeel; malt and caramel flavor, dry and sandy/dusty; average bitterness.
More Amber Ale than Altbier.

Tried from Draft on 31 Dec 2013 at 18:41


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Well done altbier. Nice and wooden bitter at finish. Malty tang in aroma. Pours orange clear without much head or lacing. Average carbonation. Sampled at Garrick’s head.

Tried on 08 May 2013 at 22:54