3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle @ Pivni Rozmanitost, Prague. Pours clear golden with a off white head. A bit of grain, grass and vegetables. Slightly rough bitterness. Medium bodied. Perfumey and dry finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
My Bottom Line :
Slightly toasted, biscuity pale malts lend subtle sweetness to this mineral Pilsener, while citrusy angles and herbal bitterness seal a very drinkable brew.
Further Personal Perceptions :
-A veil of foam tops the dark golden.
-The soft prickling and lean body made for easy drinking.
-This is not your textbook Pils; it’s intricate and imbued with rural character.
-The malts offered a little too much sugar for my tastes in the style.
-Based on their Kellerbier, I expected a more salient hoppiness here.
Bottle.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
(bottle) Almost clear, except for some tiny floaties, golden coloured hue with a medium-sized foamy white head. Slightly grassy and herbal hoppy aroma with a touch of citrus and a light-sweet malty background. Bitter flavour, light to medium bodied, crispy mouthfeel. Herbal, slightly grassy hops-accented taste on a soft malty, slightly chalky base; dry and pleasantly bitter hoppy finish with a light smoky malty sweetness in the aftertaste. Top notch Pilsener in the Franconian way.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle (purchased at the brewery): Greenish-golden coloured with a mid-sized fluffy white head; aromatic herbal-aromatic hops, underpinned by sweet pale malt; distinctive bitter-sweet flavour, soft, smooth MF; a faint hint of smoked malt (!) in the lingering dry bitter finish. A very fine stuff, Franconia rules........
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, from the brewer, July 2005. Gold, moderate white head and moderate condition. Pleasant grassy hops and gentle malt in the nose, good solid hop flower and resins in the mouth and a lingering hop bitter finish with a low graininess.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 2, 2005 Golden color, maybe even darker. Plum aroma. Malty flavor with an upcoming bitterness. Nutty, apple, peach. Somewhat dirty, especially in the aftertaste. Tasty Franconian farmhouse pilsener that needs further improvement.
Re-rate: bottle: pale colored, a bit hazy. Flowery honey-like citric aroma. Hoppy, citric, almost powdery flavor. Hoppy, oily aftertaste with plastic. Low on carbon. Very un-pilsener like beer.
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