Wicked Elf Pilsner

Brewed by The Little Brewing Company
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Fantastic Pils. This is has got to be the best attempt of a Czech Pils I’ve ever tasted. The aroma has that same characteristic as an imported Czech beer, not as overpowering but it was there. But I have yet to taste any other so called Pils to get this aroma, superb. Herbal, floral and a little fruity. Great Linguring Bitterness flavour, although not as spicy but clean. Great melanoidin malt flavour. Well Done!!!

Bottle. A pleasant hop aroma, dark orange in colour, a bit dark for a pilsener, balanced malt taste, with a good hop bitterness on the back palate.

Pours not quite bright, a deep orange amber. Head forms all excited off the pour, a rocky white pad that is well retained to leave good legs as it wanes. Zingy pineapple, honey and gritty big toasted malt nose, quite spicy, with a lot of fresh herbs poking through. Toasted malt start, mildly bready mid-palate before a citrus edged, heavily peppery and herbal backend - nice hopping! Good, assertively bitter peak lets it drop off malty and tangy sweet with a lot more zesty raw hops. The sweetness builds being its only major flaw, the body medium and carbonation quite soft, prickly. Hardly a Pilsner true to type but not that bad a beer overall. My sample is probably a little passed due so I’ll compare this to a fresher sample when it comes along. (33cL, BB 17/08/09, Dan Murphy’s Albany)

330mL. Pour is clear to slightly hazy gold with a medium, ice cream head with good retention and decent lace. Aroma is butter, butterscotch, sweet candies, old orange candies. A little off for a pils. Taste is suddy, drying, sweet candy corn, slight butterscotch/caramel candies. Really just so far off from style. Loved the Wicked Elf Pale Ale but this is falling short.

Bottle. Clear golden body with a small to average sized white foamy head. Some large yeast particles. Highly carbonated. Aroma of bread, herbs and cooked corn. Taste floral herbal hoppyness with a bready sweetness followed by a slight roasty bitter finish. Light to medium bodied.

bottle, pours light orange/copper, thin white head, moderate lacing. pretty big noble hop aroma,. flavour great, hops come through as fruity (grapes?), due to the sweet pils, grainy flavour in background. sweet finish, moderate-light bitterness. moderate-light carbonation. good

Bottled. A dark golden beer with an off-white head. The aroma has strong notes of flowery hops - combined with notes of elderflowers. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of hops combined with medium notes of malt, straw, and elderflowers.

Bottle 330ml.

Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, light toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, grassy hops. Body is light to medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20101102]

Bottle at Papsø. Clear amber coloured with a meidum sized white head. Fruity aroma of caramel, grass and hops with notes of pine needles. Fruity flavour of hops, grass and pine needles. Hoppy finish.

Bottled. Golden coloured. Unclear. Dense off white head. ARoma of herbs, grass, light fruits and sweetness. Flavour of herbs, grass, light fruits and some spice. Medium bodied. Has a sweet bitterness in the end.

33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy yellow to orange with a small white head. Aroma is malty, caramelish and light grassy. Bitter, grassy, vague citrusy and towards breadish malty. Dry and roasted malty finish with a nice bitterness coming through.