Emersons Pilsner (Organic)

Brewed by Emersons Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Dunedin, New Zealand

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

Bottle, RBESG, August 2005. I think I must have missed something here. Or perhaps I was just becoming rather fatigued after a long and boozy day. It has some nice grassy hops and a clean refreshing mouthfeel, but I just didn’t get anything too much out of the ordinary. Oh well. Guess I’d better try it again if the opportunity arises.

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2006 BIG Thanks to Engelsmann for this bottle. Best before SEP 07, it says. Huge white head, very strong retention, snow white in color and very dense/creamy, providing ample sheets of lace. Great clarity in the very pale-straw body, with faint bronze-copper tints. Unfiltered, but settled and carefully poured. Tiny bubbles rising methodically in the liquid. AROMA. Nose just blows up, surging forth with saaz and hallertauer dryness, but just enough light grass-like fruitiness and a very crisp lager yeast bite that dries things out even moreso on the end. Snappy, crisp, dry, highly aromatic, this is pilsener at its best. Further sniffing shows ripe green bartlett pears, mixing with a mildly sweet, almost tart white grape juice note. Malt is grainy, with minimal traces of sourdough, but it adds substance without butting in on the masterpiece that is the hops and yeast. FLAVOR. Pears and juicy white grape juice notes combining with lighlty sourish malts and crisp, snappy yeast, flow gracefully down the throat, with not-overdone carbonation. The dry, hay-like, sweaty and grassy hops keep things very dry, without overdoing the bitterness. Just a wonderful job with the finishing hops! Malt adds light honey that lets the crisp notes simultaneously nip at the palate and then sink in to a soft sweetness, only to be rinsed lightly by the engaging carbonation and then further cleared by the genuinely crisp yeast. No flaws whatsoever. Perhaps a little vacuousness in the middle, with some water and just a touch too round of a maltiness, but then, not all pilseners are bone dry. Oregano/dill and grass come in retronasal, quite pleasingly. Perfect carbonation levels, thanks to a superbly executed bottling job, especially for an unfiltered, delicate lager. Texture is supple, bit too round at times as stated, but it makes up for it by being wonderfully dry at the beginning and end. If this does indeed have American-style hops in it, they are certainly used sparingly and complementary.

Hazy blond color. Nice hop aroma. Dry mouthfeel, with some malt and a very good and strong hopping, fruity and dry.

Thanks to the Danish Crew for sharing this one with us! Beautiful golden color, big frothy head on top. Nice hoppy nose with some grainy tones. Great taste of hops leading to a medium long, smooth but yet dry finish. Awesome Pilsner.

Bottle thanks to sk8viking: Pours a slightly hazy pale golden with an airy white head and light carbonation. Aroma of fresh, green noble Saaz hops with some mildly grainy, sweet pale malt and faint tartness. Body starts with light malty sweetness turning slightly more earthy and bitter toward a crisp, dry bitter finish. More bitter than most pilseners, but has a good clean flavor.

Sulfury lager nose, clear page gold, foamy head. Creamy malt front, citrus (lemon and orange) in the middle. Light dainty hop bitter across the whole mouth. Dry and gritty. Wonderfully smooth and well balanced.

This is some of the best Pilsner I’ve tasted for a long time. It stands for it’s self this organic Pilsner. Characterfull aromatic hops - Saz, grass. Pale green golden, unfiltered, foamy lacing white head that will last. Body is medium weight, mouthfeel rather fizzy. Interresting freshness, citric and flowery hop profile though. Flowery perfumed finish.Good to taste a low-alcohol pils which is flavorful.

50 cl bottle. Yeast at the bottom. Nice fruity nose with hints of pine. Very tasty flavour of fruit and hops. Ends up very refreshing and very different from other pilsner beer.