Sierra Nevada / Victory Beer Camp Alt Route
2014 Beer Camp Across America Release.
Brewers are notorious for refusing to take the easy path. Instead, we lead with our hearts and pursue our passions no matter how difficult the road ahead. Alt Route is a tribute to this stubborn spirit that drove us to dodge the status quo and found breweries. Together we chased the siren song of beer with this revamped take on an antique beer style.
Like us, Victory is one of the few brewers with an allegiance to whole-cone hops. They do extensive work with hop flavor, especially focusing on clever and delicious single-hop beers highlighting the same hop grown in different regions. They too share our roots in home brewing and never lost their passion for working with new beers and styles solely for the joy of making something new.
Alt Route is our take on the old school German Altbier style featuring an ale-lager hybrid yeast, which is top fermenting and fruity like an ale, but matured at cool temperatures for a clean, lager-like flavor. This deep amber beer has a slight emphasis on the richly layered, slightly sweet malt body with enough citrusy hop flavor and aroma to produce a balanced, dry finish.
Brewers are notorious for refusing to take the easy path. Instead, we lead with our hearts and pursue our passions no matter how difficult the road ahead. Alt Route is a tribute to this stubborn spirit that drove us to dodge the status quo and found breweries. Together we chased the siren song of beer with this revamped take on an antique beer style.
Like us, Victory is one of the few brewers with an allegiance to whole-cone hops. They do extensive work with hop flavor, especially focusing on clever and delicious single-hop beers highlighting the same hop grown in different regions. They too share our roots in home brewing and never lost their passion for working with new beers and styles solely for the joy of making something new.
Alt Route is our take on the old school German Altbier style featuring an ale-lager hybrid yeast, which is top fermenting and fruity like an ale, but matured at cool temperatures for a clean, lager-like flavor. This deep amber beer has a slight emphasis on the richly layered, slightly sweet malt body with enough citrusy hop flavor and aroma to produce a balanced, dry finish.
3.5
408 reviews
Chico, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Beer camp alt route has a similar copper brown to the chestnut beers. The nose is nutty, sweet & grainy. Medium bodied with a decent mouthfeel. Sweet grainy nutty mouthfeel. An ok alt.
Keg at Bagby, Oceanside, 14/11/14.
Light chestnut brown with a moderate beige head.
Nose is nutty, dark malt, caramel, straw.
Taste comprises biscuit notes, hint of dark fruit, toffee, nutty, malt.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Ok alt.
Mahogany pour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet malt. Taste is roasted malt, little sweet, nutty and butter. Nice lacing.
Cloudy amber appearance. Nice looking beer nice lace. Smell malts and hops. Taste earthy caramel slight toffee. Dry hops tingle the toungue . Nice body and mouth feel. Brown ale character. Toasty not my favorite style but boy its a nice change well done.
Where and how: bottle 12 oz ml from GG
Aroma proper, nice earthy woody feel, slight toasty hints on sides. Clean and pleasant.
Appearance :
Top: mid-sized off white cap. Decent longevity.
Base: clear copper amber.
Palate : medium bodied, medium carbonation. Drinkable.
Taste: solid with fairly authentic approach. Good nutty woody character, slightly grassy. Balanced with refined character.
other notes very good.
Draft at stags head. Pours a deep Amber with fine beige head. Nose is toasted grains and some dried fruit. Tastes of Orange rind, dried apricot, light caramel, earthy bitters, bread and grains. Nice body semi sticky finish. Lovely actually
Bottle. Brown clear. Malty nose, some grains, hoppy herbs, a bit of soft roast. Med bodied, well bittered. some syrupy sweets, dry coffee- like roast. An american, slight sweet caramelly, version of an alt. Clean nice. Bit too much sweets to have that superior drinkability those düsseldorfians display. Good though, but more as a brown ale or whatever.
Surprisingly great alt beer, malty and spice up front, with hoppy finish. Good drinkability. One of the fun surprises of the latest package.
January 9, 2015. Bottle at home, bottled june 4, 2014.
Clear ruby red with a medium off-white/tan head. Aroma is dark bread, toffee, herbal hops, some nutty and earthy notes. Taste is bready, nutty, light to medium sweet, light bitter, earthy and herbal. Finish is light to medium earthy bitterness with dark bread and light caramel notes. Body is medium, average carbonation.
Amber with an off white head. Aroma is malty, with an odd soapiness, some floral aromas. Taste is largely floral, mild background hoppiness, soap is lingering, light pine.
Pours medium reddish brown with a thin off-white head. Aroma is toast, chocolate, light citrus, some malty sweetness, and hints of berry and toffee. Taste is toast, grapefruit + rind, slight malt sweetness, hint of dried berries, and low-medium bitterness. Nice carbonation, a little thin. Finishes a bit resiny.
Tasted from bottle. Pours a very dark amber almost brown. White head. Aroma is caramel and toffee notes. Not a robust aroma. Taste is moderately sweet with biscuity flavors and caramel and toffee. Some earthly flavors. Mild bitterness to balance. Very good for style.
Bottle. Bronze beer with a dark cream head. Malt and light mineral aroma. Malt and light bready flavor with light mineral notes. Medium bodied. Malt and light caramel lingers with light mineral and light breadiness.
12 oz bottle part of Beer Camp. Russet brown body with a small, soapy, off-white head of broken bubbles. Aromas of dark malts, grain, brown bread, fruity esters, yeast. Similar flavor, with the addition of a mild hop character. Bready with a hint of bitterness. Sweet brown breads. Not my thing.
Russet brown body with a small, soapy, off-white head of broken bubbles. Aromas of dark malts, grain, brown bread, fruity esters, yeast. Similar flavor, with the addition of a mild hop character. Bready with a hint of bitterness. Sweet brown breads. Decent.
Bottle at home in CT - big thanks to drsandman for procuring. Pours mostly clear, deep amber with a creamy, light tan head. The nose holds toasted, grainy bread with suggestions of dried fruits. Light to medium sweet flavor with further toasty malts, mild earthy bitterness, some fruits, vague caramel, ripe orange and a bit of general citrus rind. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Nicely balanced on the finish with moderate sweetness, toasted bread and grass, some berries, earth. Nice beer.
Aroma of vanilla and caramelized sugars. Deep amber color with an average near ivory - colored head. Flavor has toasted malt, but as with most of the Beer Camp offerings, hops seem to dominate. They are spicy and citrusy with a moderate dose of bitterness. Average body and mouthfeel. Overall, this beer is good, but I felt that the hops overrun the maltiness.
Bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear, light orangish brown with a half finger off white head. Aroma of fruity citrus hops and a hint of caramel. Taste is medium bitter. Follows aroma with the addition of some resinous pine throughout. Full bodied with a creamy texture. Lively carbonation and a super long finish. Great beer, I’m really diggin this one.
Dark amber color with a thin white head. Aroma is nutty and vaguely musty. Flavor is caramel and toffee with a big nutty finish. A little bitter on the palate, not unpleasant.
Wife: 3.8
Poured from bottle into altbier glass. Pours copper with thick slightly off-white head. Aroma is full of biscuit and caramel with just a hint of noble hops. Taste starts off with darker malt notes than color suggests with some hop bitterness, then transitions to caramel and malty character. Carbonation is per style and initially quite prickly.
12 ounce bottle from Hayduke that we had together via facebook chat. This beer is quite dark and has a thick beige head that leaves very cool lacing. An interesting sour aroma is not big. It is sour and at times is akin to a mead and also balsanic vinegar. First sip brings a bitter aftertaste and this beer is dry. Flavor is also not big. A good grain bill and malts. Bittering hops are more that than flavorful do bring a little fruit. A hint of nuts. This is an alternative take on an alt. It seems to have more attitude than the stones to back it up.
This was shared with Strykzone on Facebook Chat. Poured cola brown with a bit beige head. Nose of floral hop;. Medium body and smooth mouth feel. Flavor show some fruit, floral hops, and roasted malt. Some nut appear in the finish. The in general just a bit off overall and I had to work to finish it.
Pours out a nice rub brown with a moderate off white head. Aroma is of caramel, bread, malty sweetness, some burnt sugar and a touch of some citrus hop bitterness. Taste is caramelized sugar, bread crusts, some nice notes of bitterness creeping through with a little bit of dry fruity notes on the finish.
Bottle: Poured a light brown with some orange tint, head is thin off white lacing. Light fruity hops and malt aroma. Taste is a rugged hops forward bite that mellows into sweet malt and dry leafiness.
Bottle. Garnet with a beige head. Muted caramel aroma but not much else. Sweet and then dry toffee.
Interesting spin from two hop Giants. Earthy malt aroma with a hint of floral hops. Deep amber color. Medium to lightweight body with strong carbonation. Bold malt flavor with a woody character and slightly bitter finish.
Bottle. Pours a clear tobacco orange with a medium to large white head. Malt on the nose, toast and some sweetness with even a hint of spicy citrus hops. Medium bodied, sweet and malty, but with some nice citrus tones coming through, before moving to a deeper malt backbone. Finishes with a bit more caramel and candied citrus and sticky toffee malts.
On tap at Global Brew. Pours a clear dark amber with a minimal, but nice small bead off white head. Almost no aroma, bread dough maybe? Taste is roasted malt, caramel, buttered biscuits and moderate hop bitterness. There may be a hint of licorice there, too. Damned good!
A solid showing. The aroma is nothing exceptional. The taste is very ale like with some malt forward notes and some hop bitterness. The balance is quite nice with a good hop burp. The finish is mostly a clean lager like crispness--not overly sweet.
Bottle shared by sonnycheeba. Pours a transparent dark amber with a thin layer of of white head. Aroma and taste of malts and some bitterness with a pine hint.