Clarissen Alt
Dortmunder Actien Brauerei (DAB) in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 🇩🇪
Altbier Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.61
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Dark copper color. Slightly metallic apple and caramel aroma and flavor. Remarkably sweet, yet a vegetable-like chichory bitter aftertaste. A bit disappointing, the beautiful bottle promised more.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
(on tap at Hoppy´s Treff, Holzwickede) The fact, that legendary defence player Dieter “Hoppy” Kurrat of Borussia Dortmund - one of the heroes of the European Cup Championship of 1966 (finally against F.C. Liverpool) - tapped this brew personally for me, doesn´t make it better. Dark brown colour with a reddish shade and a small frothy white layer. Not much aroma except some toasted malts. Medium bitter flavour, toastmalty taste and a (retronasal) skunky bitter and thin finish. The nice swing top bottles are not available anymore as far as I know. One can get it still on tap in a few pubs in and around Dortmund, but better stay away from this bland and boring Alt, except for rating reasons of course.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottled. Nut brown. Very rich head. Sweet and lightly roasty. Offputting vegetable finish. Ohhh. So this was a Binding beer? That explains the lousy quality...