2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: NOV 20, 2011
Date: September 08, 2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: hazy pale yellow, frothy white head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: corn and cereal aroma with a dose of sulpher
Body: big carbonated body
Flavor: sweet cereal grain flavor, light balancing bitterness
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
(12oz bottle) White head atop crystal clear straw body. Aroma is medium sweet, straw, honey, light bread/caramel. Taste is medium sweet, grassy/straw, some bread. Fair amount of bitterness. Watery light-medium body, faint creaminess.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft sample at MBGF. Hazy pale color with a large frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate hoppy citruas aroma. Medium body with soft carbonation. Medium bitter citrus flavor with a medium citrus finish of moderate duration.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at Barcade. Slightly hazy, pale golden pour with a tight creamy white head. The nose is quite clean with some crackery malt character. Fairly clean and fresh with a nice herbal hop character. Lightly floral with a touch of zestiness. It’s actually a pretty nice pilsner.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours a transparent pale golden with a large foamy white head. Aroma of pale malt and some fresh Saaz hops. Body starts with some mild sweetness and hoppy bitterness for balance before a slightly estery, drier finish. A decent pils.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cloudy golden liquid topped by a gigantic white mountainous foam that follows a gusher. A gushing pilsner? That’s a feature even Breughel has not accomplished yet. Anyways... without the borderline ridiculous overcarbonation that follows in mouth, it could have been pretty solid as the noble hops bring forward nice herbal undertones and the gentle maltiness is clean, crackery and relatively dry. Its dryness is intertwined with mineral, sandy suggestions. Even upfront, the gazyness affects the taste negatively, limiting the other component’s deployment and enhancing the thinness. I guess it could be good on tap, but the bottling seems to have quality control issues.
2.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Soapy white head, light body. Neutral aroma Creamy, some pilsner taste finishing metallic. Compelling effort to make it creamy.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
My first Atwater beer, and I am impressed. Bottle from the Beer Yard. The pour is gold with 2-finger white head and a good dose of carbonation, coupled with a ton of floaties which remain suspended in the glass. At times, the carbonation is floating up while the floaties drift down, and the entire effect is mesmerizing. At one point, I was staring at this beer like I was reading the Wall Street Journal, and mywife said "What the hell are you doing?" Perhaps the best appearance of all time due to this fabulous effect. The aroma was classic pils, with a hopcitric base, plus some honey pale malts and slight fruit (apricots). The palate was medium density, with flavors of heavy pale malty honey, plus the aforementioned apricots and hopcitrus. Well balanced, complex, and you really have to see this one to believe it!
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