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Capital 1900

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Score
4179
OVERALLStyle
Formerly brewed at Capital Brewery
Style: Pilsener
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

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RATINGS: 128   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.95   EST. CALORIES: 158   ABV: 5.25%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
After researching brewing styles from the turn of the last century, Capital has created an outstanding, mild, American-style beer. This pilsner beer comes from an old Wisconsin recipe, circa 1900, and has a smoothness that the big beer companies will envy.


3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
argo0 (9034) - Washington DC, USA - SEP 28, 2005
(12oz bottle) Clear apple juice body with small white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, apple, bread, apricot. Taste is medium sweet, grassy, apple, some bread, light apricot. Watery light-medium body, some crispness. Because it aims for a style I know nothing about, I have no idea if it succeeds. That being said, it is flavorful and fairly enjoyable.

2.3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
hopdog (6943) - Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA - NOV 21, 2005
Poured a medium and lightly cloudy golden color with a very small sized white head. Aromas of flowers. Tastes of grain, flowers with a very light grassy finish. Aromas and tastes on the lighter side. Thin and watery body.

2.6
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
CaptainCougar (6747) - Boz Scaggsville, Maryland, USA - AUG 24, 2002
Kinda tastes like a cross between coors light and budweiser, but with a crisper hop aroma. Pale golden color with virtually no head. Perhaps my least favorite Capital product I have tried.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 11/20
JorisPPattyn (6426) - Antwerpen, BELGIUM - OCT 1, 2005
Orange-tinted gold; virtually no head, just a mm-wide rim. Shoe polish, sweet cookie malt, nutty, some oxydation, honey. Nutty, again oxydized flavour, ending metallic bitterish after mainly sweet main taste, faint fruity. Weird fruit, as wild prunes or pimpernel... Very empty palate, slightly slick. Interesting from an historical point of view. Less from the beerlovers’ point.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Ughsmash (5628) - Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA - JUN 13, 2006
Bottled. Poured a clear, bright golden with a dense cap of white head. Nose was heavily bready with hints of lemon and other sweet malts. Flavor is certainly on the sweeter side with syrupy dough, lemonheads, light veggie, and light floral bitterness. Smooth malts, but the hops are a bit clunky in creating their bitterness. Lighter-bodied. Veggies and a solid dose of uber-sweet malts at the finish. This was drinkable, but powerfully average.

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Cornfield (5239) - Oak Forest, Illinois, USA - JUN 22, 2005
It’s an okay Pilsener, good warm weather fare, but nothing special. Thick and golden with lively carbonation and a bubbly white head, this... Wait. The head and carbonation are gone. Anyway, this has a sweet malt aroma, the hops not really being present in the nose. Smooth to drink, it’s continues with the sweet malt in the flavor and adds a drop of lemon juice. The hops finally emerge in the finish, lightly floral and herbal. Okay, but not worth the six-pack price.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
JPDIPSO (4957) - Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA - OCT 25, 2002
Clear golden color with really not much of a head. Dry malt aroma. Dry start with a nice sweet flavor hops. Rather nice malt finish. An enjoyable lager.

2.5
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
BBB63 (4939) - La Porte, Indiana, USA - AUG 9, 2003
I dunno, just didn't care much for this brew, bland and boring. Notes for german hops and malts, smooth taste, bitter aftertaste. Very thin mouthfeel and metallic feel.


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