Damburger Royal Pils

Formerly brewed at S.C. Martens
Style: Pilsener
Galati, Romania

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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***review from Sep 13, 2007***

My bottle has a big ’DR’ on it and the months for expiration are in roman numerals. Cracked the bottle in half like an egg and dumped it into my glass. The smell is bad right off the top as I can smell it from a foot away...a tendril of stink slithered into my nostril. Unfiltered stuff, large white rocky head that sticks around just above a skim that leaves minor chunky lacing. Odd coloured gold. Skunks live in my bottle. Now that they have left, I’m left with oversweet stuff and I guess what is supposed to be malts. At least the sweat aroma disappeared. Taste isn’t tasty. Sweet (kinda like a paperbag beer), cardboard, ick alcohol and unimpressive hops. Posibally chemicals too. Maybe lemon...that’s a big maybe. Mouthfeel is pretty rough with excessive carbonation and sour bitter finish. Comes across too thick to enjoy. Crap. Thanks Brad for the tick mark for Romania.

"Wholly crap I think the family of skunks that lived in Beercronics bottle moved in to mine after he finished his. Massive skunk explosion when bottle was first opened I feel my condo will stink like this for a very long time. Beer pours a yellowy brown with mild haze a half inch cap was built up during the pour but quickly vanish into something that looked like a small piece of plastic floating on my beer. This beer looks like crap!!!! The stink of this beer is amazing tons of skunk, sour corn, and a wide variety of chemicals. What the hell this beer looks completely flat but is so overly carbonated it burns to drink and that in combination with its soft thin feel makes for a nasty drinking experience and I’m not even at the flavor yet. Vey sweet, fackly sweet in fact, it has a corn flavor but it’s a fake corn flavor. Malts taste dusty and there is a very out of place citrus flavor in the finish. This is just plain horrid its getting the dump into the sink. Bye bye crap!!!!! "

300ml bottle.
Pours a pale hay yellow. Clear with a small bubbly white head that disappears not slowly. Aroma of sugar, cereal, and the grassy hop pilsener essential. Thin, smooth and carbonated mouth feel. Flavours mostly of earthy and grassy hop character with some sugary malts present as well. Finishes with a semi dry bitterness thats reminiscent of coffee. Not bad. Its what a pilsener should be.

bottle - Pours pale yellow and fizzy with a one finger head. The aroma is cereal malt and a little hops. The flavor is of light malts and has some mild hops that taste like numerous other light, euro-hopped lagers. I’ve certainly had worse, It’s thin, slightly watery, and generally unimpressive.

Pours is light golden with a small white head. The aroma is ordinary with a little hops. The flavor is mild with a slight bit of hops.

Bottle: A rather mediocre Pilsner. Yellow body with a white head. Much better looking than tasting. Sweet malty flavor with a bit too much sweetness. Could use more hop bitterness. Perhaps an old sample.

This bottled brew marked lot# 03/07/17 poured a large sized head of foamy finely sized mostly diminishing white colored bubbles that left behind a fair lacing. The body contained soft carbonation, was transparent and light yellow orange in color. Its aroma contained notes of malt dough floral . Its mouth feel is initially tingly hoppy with a lingering tingly palate and a aftertaste. Its flavor contained hoppy malty notes. Good for a pils.

Bottle. White frothy medium sized head that was mostly diminishing, fair lacing, fine-small sized bubbles, carbonated, and a straw yellow hue. Aroma was malty and sweet as was the flavor. Rather boring. Tingly palate. Medium body.

Tap. I have no idea how this apparently rare brew found its way to a hotel bar in Boston. I had no idea that it had only two ratings and that it's from a new country for me! Golden, typical looking pils with a big foamy head. Typical pilsner smell with a hint of grain that follows throughout. Seems a little off-balance; gimmee more hops! I only finished because I had already paid for it.

Appearance is light golden- almost water, with lotsa bubbles. Huge head. Smell is ordinary pilsner smell; includes hints of banana. Flavor is gunky, yet sweet. Slight dirtiness, slght pepperiness, not so hot aftertaste. Overall, it’s drinkable, but I won’t buy it again.