Brooklyn Pilsner

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Pilsener
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

Ooh, very hoppy, and dry finish, like a pale ale. But more grainy malt, a little sweetness. This lacks the richness and full flavour of a German pilsener, but this beer does have a lot of character and some complexity. It is very pleasant and refreshing too: good texture of the carbonation, and absolutely no unpleasant tones in the flavour. Overall an excellent beer: I will certainly get this one again.

Clean fresh herbal hops and bright cereal grains meet the nose. Clear golden body is topped by low white head that recedes to partial cover. Pleasant grainy malt flavour with grassy, herbal hops and fair finishing bitterness. Medium-light body with lively, crisp carbonation. Bottle sampled at a bar in Copenhagen around the corner from Øl Baren.

Bottle. Golden with small, lasting head. Clean flavored with delicate malt (fresh barley-like) backbone and an emphasis on the hops, grassy with long bitter finish. Medium body and soft, smooth mouthfeel. Nice.

$1.49 for a 12-oz single (bottle). Golden with a small white head. Smells of sweet grasses. Flavor starts grassy, ends up malty, and finishes coppery. Not bad overall, but boring. Definitely has a bitter end.

Jax Beer and Wine - Atlanta, Ga. - 12 oz bottle. Pours a sparkling, light to medium goldne with a thin, tight, persistent head. Sweet, biscuity, cakemix like aroma. Flavor is a tad spicy, with some club soda-like dryness. Hallertauer, bitter hoppiness is prevalent and the mouthfeel is very crisp. Overall, a decent pils, quite refreshing.

Aroma of malt and wheat? Golden amber, pours a small firm white head, maintained with plenty of carbonation, some nice lace. Malt and hops taste, seems spicey too? Light bodied, an almost chewy body, spicey bitterness. This beer seems more like a wit or a hefe weisse?

UPDATED: APR 19, 2010 Updated rating 4/18/2010. I have had this beer a few times since my initial review, mostly recently this date, and the number remain unchanged. Slightly clouded gold pour with a moderate white head that fizzes away between the first and second sip. Aroma is light malt and some equally weak floral hops. The flavor is malt with some fairly strong hops bitterness. Heavier in body than it should be and lacking the crispness I associate with a good pilsner.

Original rating 9/22/2005. 12 oz. bottle. Reading the other descriptions, I wonder if the bottle I bought wasn’t stored properly. Label says best before Jan 2006 so its not old beer. Poured a slightly cloudy pale gold with a decent white head. Floral aroma. Light citrus flavor with a pronounced sourness. Lingering bitterness on the tongue long after the beer was swallowed. At some point down the road I’ll try another one.

Bottle. A very nice clear golden pour with a bubbly white head. Very classic pilsner taste. Malty and crisp. Light hops easy on the tongue.