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Great Waters Sun Dog Pils

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Formerly brewed at Great Waters Brewing
Style: Pilsener
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

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RATINGS: 1   MEAN: 3.9/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.18   EST. CALORIES: 150   ABV: 5%
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Minnesota style pilsner. May be the same yeast strain used by the Schmidt Brewery here in St. Paul. We brewed with Shakopee malted two row pilsener malt, and plenty of hops. Sun Dog was lagered for six weeks in our own cellars in a brand spankin’ new, stainless steel fermentation vessel, with our very own well water. We left this lager unfiltered to resemble the rarely seen Winter Sun Dogs that grace our Minnesota skies.


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   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
beermatrix (1497) - Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA - FEB 5, 2007
On-cask at the brewpub: Unfiltered hazy dark yellow. Small dense capping of white froth that keeps well. Lacing is spotty with a few stringy strands. Aroma is a bit light, but clean and pleasant with a nice Pilsner malt snap thats kinda like some wet crackers and a bit of musty grassyness. Taste is pretty decent. Rounded Pils malt tone thats tenderly bready with a bit of leanness to it thats of baked crackers. Nice addtions of hops that are flakey and dryish with a small dose of grassy herbalness. Keeps a nice frimness of Pils malt all throughout each sip and or gulp. Well rounded, crisp, smooth body, and lightly feathery in texture from the cask. Mediumish body with a snappy grab within each sip. Floating dry finish of Pils malt flavors and a bit of herbal hopping notes. A very nice drinker. Notes on the recipe state something along the lines that it followed the old Schmidt lager with an addition to an extra Pils malt added to it.


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