El Bolson Blanca Tradicional (Rubia)

Brewed by Cerveceria Artesanal El Bolson
Style: Pilsener
El Bolson, Argentina

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Hazy straw. Toasty and a little dry. Some off-flavours indicate perhaps a little old. Light, starter micro beer.

A soft taste with a little body for a rubia. Some small cascade hops presense but not much. Alright for a blond beer. A small cereal taste present. Had on tap at South bar.

Poured a hazy yellow color with a medium sized white head. Sulphur hits the nose first, yeasty. Sweet and tart malt. The flavor is of tart malt but over the flavor is light as is the body.

Bottle shared by maxxdaddy. Lovely hazy pale yellow, hazy beer with a thick pillowy head... it goes off the rails right after that. The aroma is wheaty and quite sulfurous. Tart and vegetal with a rancid soured pickle character. Like a mix of pickle juice and sour mash stank. Absolutely terrible.

Bottle as Rubia, shared by Maxx. Pours a completely unfiltered pale yellow, like a wit, with a decent head. Actually looks quite good. Everything good ends there, though. Nasty band-aid and socks aroma, slightly sour (infected?), trash, soy bean. Yuck, Afraid to put it to my nose. Taste is not much better. Quite nasty, in fact. I see no semblance of a pils left, more just like a really fucked of wit. Disgusting.

Bottle. Golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malt, butterscotch. Flavour is sweet, malt, butterscotch, caramel, hop.

Bottle. Clear, golden beer, with an off-white head. Some hops in the aroma, but caramel and butterscotch dominates. In the flavor, the bitterness is overpowered by the sweet caramel and butterscotch. Medium body. Decent, but too buttery, Quite interesting in a way, but I’m not quite sure what I think of it. (070914)

Appearance: blond color. Medium head, white foam and low persistency. Aroma: malty, yeasty and citric-fruitiness with reminiscences of grapefruit and lemon. Soft hoppy smells, with notes of herbs and aniseed. Flavor: too much citric, maybe infection problems. Peppery yeasty, typical of the “Cervecería el Bolsón”. Aftertaste with intensive bicarbonate notes. Palate: light body and watery. High carbonation.

Bottled. Hazy golden, rocky head. Citric nose. Dryish and lemony with medium body. Low on hops, some passion fruit, some signs of very early infection. Low bitterness.

Mine was a touch sour and I wondered if it was supposed to be that way. Fairly light malt and hop body. Not really an amber at all, more of a wheaty lager by my reckoning.