Flossmoor Station .357 Imperial Pilsner

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

Serve in Lager glass

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22oz bottle. Pours orange with no head. Aroma is of caramel, citrus, pine, bread, and hops. Taste starts off with a strong grassy hops flavor. Didn’t expect it to be quite so hoppy. Lots of pine and citrus as well. Has a base of caramel malt that evens the beer out well. Lingering grassy hops flavor. The alcohol is well hidden. It’s a little overly malty, but I really enjoyed this beer. I expected not to like it, but I did.

Name: 357
Date: May 28, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Bhalter Summersalter
Appearance: cloudy dark yellow, fine white head
Aroma: sweet and spicy aroma
Flavor: big sweet and spicy flavor, touch of floral, balancing bitterness, long bitter and sweet finish
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Bottle:   Orangish straw, hazy, large frothy white head, nice lacing, lively carbonation.   Doesn’t seem much of a lager type in its haziness.   Strong sweet grassiness on the nose.   A little dank.   Very strong hay/grass on the tongue, warming, but for a 12% ABV its not really alcholic.   I can tell it has a kick, but its fairly smooth.   A bit difficult to drink as it warms as it becomes a little cloying and mealy.   Aside from that, I am amazed as to how smooth this is.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate to full.   A little boring in that its not all that entertaining, but its smooth and clean with the ABV being well hidden.   I could easily reach for another on a hot day if this was nice and cold.   Sweet on the finish, with a bit of hops that make their initial apperance.   Thanks Jeff for the freebie!

Aroma smells like whiskey, smoe grains, lace, low hops, medium malts, high alcohol falvor, sweet, light fruit on tounge, full body and lingering. Okay, best served in sniffer..

Bomber poured through coffee filter for fear of glass shards, pours hazy golden/orange with a big fluffy white head. Aroma of bready yeast, caramel, grass, grain, sweet honey, hops, and malt. Wow the taste is sweet, into some barnyard hay funk, nice spice character, and finishing on some bitter sweet yeast. This has some nice elements to it, but there is just no return from how sweet this is.

Pours a bright, full bodied orange, with a big frothy head. Big aroma for a pils. A ton of malt on the nose. Cereal, grains, bread, dominate the aroma. I have a feeling this might be rather sweet. Yep, it is. A malt bomb for a pils, and a huge oily mouthfeel to boot. Big, doughy sweet grains, toffee, faded hops comprise of the flavor. Have a feeling this bottle is just past its prime. If fresh, I could see this kicking my ass.

Bottle shared by atom. Slightly hazy, golden orange in color with a frothy white head. Christ, this is a huge caramel bomb on the aroma. Sweet jesus, this is sweet smelling. Syrupy body make this too much for me. Sweet caramel and some cardboard notes. A small burn as this goes down. One dimensional in that it is just caramel sweetness, and a syrupy body make this pretty gross to me.

this was poured from draft and poured a nice head Balanced and aromatic with tones of malts, hops, oranges and some heat (in an alcoholic way) medium/full bodied with a lot more malty tones but also some booziness as well This was definitely showing the 12%, but it wasn’t like I was drinking an extremely alcoholic beer. While there was a boozy quality to it, it wasn’t overdone and on the whole a very good beer

The beer pours amber orange with a decent white head. There is a syrupy sweet thickness to the aroma. The flavor is sweet with subtle buttery notes on a big body.

Thanks to Paul [insert inappropriate word here] Lunch for bringing this brew to the FW tasting. Rocked this one out in a Captain Lawrence tulip. Should have pulled out my Flossmoor pint glass just to irk Paul after he showed me up by bringing a FW mini-snifter and coaster. Pours a clear golden color with an average white head that diminished pretty quickly, leaving behind sparse spotty lacing. The nose had an average amount of bread and straw plus some light floral and herbal hops. The flavor was no different, hitting some grains and then dosing on the hops. 12%? No way. Mouthfeel gets a bump for those heroics. Pretty decent, though fairly plain. Medium body with a bitter, dry finish. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 05-25-2011

Thanks to Chris for allowing me to tick our brat marinade... clear gold with a light tan head... smells like an imperial pilsner, actually one of the better ones, a little sweet... taste is a bit hot, too much alcohol, but this is fine what it is