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Hawkes Bay Pilsner


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Brewed by Hawkes Bay Independent Brewery
Style: Pilsener
Napier, New Zealand

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RATINGS: 7   MEAN: 2.64/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.69   EST. CALORIES: 150   ABV: 5%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Subtle hop characteristics define this beer. Pale in colour and cold filtered leaves this Pilsner with a crisp clean finish.


2.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
grapengrain (125) - Havelock North, NEW ZEALAND - APR 11, 2011
Beer has got better and more consistant in the last few years - really clean focused bitterness, clean lager malt and lovely aromatic hops.

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 11/20
Stew41 (1412) - Woodend, AUSTRALIA - MAR 1, 2011
Soft, soapy almost commercial style. Nice enough but is just so straightforward and ’normal’ that it lacks character. Probably exactly what the brewer is intending but part of me says a small brewer should be doing more (I don’t know why!).

2.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
mkel07 (1553) - Brisbane, AUSTRALIA - JAN 29, 2011
500ml bottle. Clear and bright amber colour with a thin scuzzy white head and modest carbonation. Aroma of malt mixed in with some fruit aromas. The flavour is clean and light on the palate and quite easy to drink.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
bluebetty (820) - AUSTRALIA - DEC 24, 2010
Bottle. Poured a really nice looking golden straw with creamy dense off white head. Nice looking beer. Nice aromas of european hops and biscuity malt. Flavours are a little thin but the doughy malt does come through as does some decent resiny hop bitterness near the finish. Not too bad.

2.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
gam (2133) - brisbane, AUSTRALIA - SEP 13, 2010
Clear gold pour good carbonation large white fluffy head aroma distictive hops from europe area fruity citric some mild spice flavour fairly sweet malt backing citrus taste strong bitter soapy taste as well finish very sweet and strong bitter rough for a pilsner

2.6
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
beer4eternity (196) - Tauranga, NEW ZEALAND - JAN 16, 2010
330ml bottle. Clear gold, no head only a small white ring. Biscuit malt corn and bread aromas. Sweet with no real bitterness that I detected. Well carbonated medium body. Not hoppy like I thought it would be. Nice enough, nothing to excite the senses here though. Pretty average.

2.6
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
bozoNZ (655) - Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND - SEP 17, 2008
Not too dis-similar to the larger. A slight more hop definition but still the sweetness remains.


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Beer: Hawkes Bay Pilsner Rating Avg: 2.69 No. of Ratings: 7
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