3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught at the brewery in May 2011: Light hazed yellow-gold. Wispy white collar of foam. Wonderfully fresh malt aromatics feature toasted straw and saltine cracker and bright notes of fennel, lemon cake, and appropriate scent of mild diacetyl. Gentle pinpricks of carbonation. Opens with a rounded melon fruitiness which gives way to a zesty hop-derived lemon bite. Peppery, herbal-tinged bitterness is matched by flavorsome, mildly grassy hops. Yeast throws some wet paint in the center, and although a scratchy note of sulfur arises alongside it, much of it is neutralized by intricately woven delicacies of wafery, crackery malt and even an echo of baguette. Some pleasing mineralic grit harmonizes with the fennel. Malt possesses a charmingly Moravian quality as it’s mostly grassy and toasty and slightly strawlike. Finishes faintly nutty and biscuity though complexly malty with a dazzling interplay of melon, herbs (fennel seed, lemon verbena) and hop nectar. Fairly clean, overall, with just a smudge of wet paint and sulfur taint. At 3.5%, this is a beautifully finessed, and very authentic, effort.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
dear brewers: the name is stupid. please change it. draft. hazed gold. soft biscuit and butter pils malt nose with light floral yeast esters, medium calcite / minerals and mild to medium lemon / citrus accented hops. medium-light body with sharp snappiness and firm malt support. dry throughout with rigid biscuit and cracker malt. hops are appropriately pungent and dry, allowing the pils malt to shine, but it doesn’t really fit in with czech-style pils due to hop pungency mildness. firm, rigid, coarse, minerallic and dry with a mild hint of honey and lemon sweetness.
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