Simple Means
(has 1 batch)
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Altbier Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.59
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Simple Means — Smoked Farmhouse Altbier. Altbier simply means “old beer” in German, and is traditional to the city and surrounding area of Düsseldorf, Germany. Altbier is a style that excites us because of its simplicity and drinkability. It’s easy to lose count of how many glasses of Altbier you’ve had in a session.
For our take on an Altbier, we felt the toasty notes from the malt played well with a fairly restrained dose of smoked malt. We added 23% beechwood smoked malt from Weyermann to a base of pale barley malt from Blacklands Malt. We then brewed with a fairly large dose of Perle hops at the start of the boil to keep the acidity in the beer from mixed culture fermentation at bay. Overall, Simple Means is an exercise in simplicity and restraint and is just good beer for drinking in our opinion.
For our take on an Altbier, we felt the toasty notes from the malt played well with a fairly restrained dose of smoked malt. We added 23% beechwood smoked malt from Weyermann to a base of pale barley malt from Blacklands Malt. We then brewed with a fairly large dose of Perle hops at the start of the boil to keep the acidity in the beer from mixed culture fermentation at bay. Overall, Simple Means is an exercise in simplicity and restraint and is just good beer for drinking in our opinion.
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6/10
Kielbaska ze zbozem i suszem, z kwasnym posmakiem.... nie pod gust ale spoko
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2018
at 18:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
750 ml bottle shared. Batch 4. Dark amber brown with beige head. Aromas of smoke, malt, light tartness. Tastes of smoke, malt, grain, light tartness. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2018
at 03:15
6/10
Backlog
Tried
on 17 Sep 2018
at 12:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle. Murky, dark brown colour with average to huge, firm, frothy to creamy, mostly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white to beige head. Toasty, malty and grassy hoppy aroma, smoky and spicy overtones with a touch of ham (Schwarzwälder Schinken), borecole, campfire ashes, slightly disguised hints of malt lozenge and caramel, a fruity touch of morello. Taste is dry, minimally tart, smoky and woody, slightly ashy, hints of leather and sorrel, almost slightly soapy in parts. Rather unbalanced - smoke is an improper feature to contrast with dry- and tartness and pins down the very same scale pan instead.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2018
at 16:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ CBC 2016. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty grainy smoky caramel aroma. Fruity malty smoky caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty smoky caramel finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 May 2018
at 15:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle (from Koht). Pours murky brown amber with whiteish head. Not a gusher. Aroma is sweet, fruity, smoke, malt. Flavor is sour and bitter, smoke, malt, berries. Finish is dry bitter. Overall: drinkable, but really feels like a beer that has gone sour. Back in soviet times the head brewmaster would have been sent to Gulag for this kind of beer, but in the modern kraft times he can sell it to suckers for 17+€. PS: this has nothing to do with alt. Nothing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2018
at 20:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2017 - Red Session
Pours hazy orange with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, smoke and orange. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long smoked, citrus and orange finish. Body is light to medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy orange with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, citrus, smoke and orange. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long smoked, citrus and orange finish. Body is light to medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2017
at 13:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours a rich brown from a bottle, white head leaves some lacing. Big farmyard funk, maybe some cheese or feet. Big malt forward with a nice smokiness, but finishes crisp and dry. Complex. Very good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2017
at 07:28
5/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2017
at 11:56
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft - Light smoke and caramel. Cloudy gold with a decent beige. Light smoke and grains.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 May 2017
at 04:42