Egils Pilsner

Brewed by Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson
Style: Pale Lager
Reykjavik, Iceland

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Adequate malt. Very similar to the other Icelandic beers. 4.5% alcohol makes it go down easy. A 2.25% version is available in convenience stores.

Can 500ml.

Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, grain, toasted, cardboard, light vegetables. Flavor is light moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average to short duration, thin, artificial malt sweet. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20110312]

Can. Clear golden color with okay head. Watery palate and weak malty flavor with a little hops.

Close to water. Dark yellow and clear. Has a white head, medium duration. Almost no aroma, water and perhaps malt. Flavor is very watery, faint bitterness in the finish. Watery texture.

Can. Courtesy Saxo. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate. Boring.

Can. Clear golden with medium white head. Flavour is malt, little bitter a very watery.

Can. Nice head with good duration. Color is pale golden. Aroma and taste are dominated by water, but maybe some notes of hops.

A beer I purchased in Iceland and poured from a tall can into a pint glass to drink. It had a light gold color with modest bubbles, and a good-sized foamy white head that had good retention and cling. The aroma had grassy and grainy hops with some barley and straw, but was not too powerful. It tasted grainy and somewhat wet with a bitter tendency with sour aspects. It was a wet beer with low carbonation and a thinner finish.

CAn in Iceland. Sweetish lager, pale color. Flavour of grain and malt, not much hoppy bitterness to make this work. Seemed to be popular in the Reykjavik streets on Saturday night, though!

50 cl. can. Local gathering. Pours a golden colour with a short lasting white head. Aroma of grains and some bitter hops. The flavour is mild and bit dry with some bitterness, grains, malt and bit sweetness. Drinkable.

Tasted in Iceland on summer vacation 2005--Poured the standard straw wheat yellow. Metallic , adjunct funky, skunky nose. Beer nonetheless and I drank it with pride.