Amstel 1870

Brewed by Heineken Nederland
Style: Pilsener
Zoeterwoude, Netherlands

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle 30cl.
Clear medium yellow orange color with a large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, hay, toasted, cabbage water. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081121]

The aroma is malty, brewmashy, and slightly sweet. The color is golden and it has a beutiful head. The flavor is nicely malty, pretty sweet with a nice hoppy bitterness from aroma hops. It has a really nice aftertaste with notes of brewmash and a good palate for a pilsener. All in all a really good pilsener.

(Bottle 30 cl) Clear, warm, fully golden colour with a creamy, white head. Hoppy nose. Medium body with some malt, but otherwise completely dominated by a very solid dose of bittering hops. Definitely a pilsener with a bite. 060306

30 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Slight acidic and cornish aroma. Flavour is mild sweet but also decending into a more acidic base flavour into the finish. Lingering dry and acidic cornish finish.

Bottled (thanks jbrus!). Golden colour, small head. Aroma is malts, hops and some grassyness. Flavour is rubber and grass along with some minor malty notes. Quite papery and grassy aftertaste.

Bottle. Dark golden colour. Big head, rather stable. Slightly sweet flavour for a pils. Otherwise nothing out of the ordinary.

Date: 07/31/1997
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Sandy Springs

clear yellow, thin head, fresh hop aroma, light body, crish hop flavor, slight bitterness

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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Clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma had malt, hints of metal and muld hops. Flavour had a touch of malt, vague grassy hops and hints cardboard. Finished dry.

Had this in Athens with my patsa. It is a golden lager with moderate bitterness, a hint of continental hop, and maybe a little malt character. A decent all-market macrobrew, but nothing more. I could probably drink it again, for what that’s worth.

(Bottled, BB 12/2008). Dark honey golden color, small white head. Grassy papery hoppy, a bit sweet nose. Harsh malty, a bit papery flavor with hoppy finish. Quite standard pale lager.