Kaiserdom Pilsener

Brewed by Kaiserdom Privatbrauerei
Style: Pilsener
Bamberg-Gaustadt, Germany

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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UPDATED: APR 25, 2006 Wow... a little slice of Bamberg comes to Australia, and only in selected large chain bottle shops. Odd. It’s fresh and it’s dirt cheap though, so who am I to complain. It’s hardly the same as Fässla Pils vom faβ in the world’s smokiest room but it’s nice nonetheless. Typical German pils aroma, which is to say it smells like my grade three desk. Pencil shavings, paper and old wood. Very nice. In the mouth it’s not as impressive. Malt character is pretty sparse, hop flavour only just peeks in and the bitterness is there, but a bit weak. A touch watery, and I’d like the bitterness to have a bit more of a minerally quality. It’s very soft as it is. Regardless, it’s somewhat savoury and really arouses the appetite (or was I just hungry?) Its flavours are pretty subtle but they grow on you the more you drink, though I would like to see a bit more guts. Oh yeah, it’s really pale.

0,5l can. Clear yellow color. Thin layer of froth. Smells somewhat filthy. Cardboard taste. Nothing special.

Can 50 cl. Pours a clear pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma is skunky with a sweet light toasted malty backbone. Flavor is medium sweet malts and grassy, skunky hops with a light metallic dry bitter finish. Medium body. Soft carbonation. Watery texture.

Pour is a clear golden with a average white head. Aroma is burning and dry pils malt. Flavor is grass and dry pils malt. The flavor is decent but nothing great. This is a beer that is probably better in Germany.

June 2010: Brown 500ml bottle obtained from ’Beers of Europe’, poured three times into one of my Veltins stemmed tulip glasses (0.2 litre). Regular clean, clear looking Pilsner, light golden in colour with a fast reducing snow white head. Plenty of life in all three pours, carbonisation clearly to be seen rising through the body. Typical Pilsner non-smell, some weak cereal and grass hints, but gets my normal 3 for a lager/pilsner non-aroma. This is just a bog standard Pilsner, nothing bad about it, nor anything outstanding. Refreshing, crisp and clean tasting, no real flavours to get excited about. Just about mid-range in everything, wouldn’t want to drink it all night, but two or three would cool you down nicely.

Can @ Home. Pours light yellow with a white head. Aroma of malt, grass. Taste is malt, paper, grass. Thin body, lively carbonation. 290312

dough, spruce, cereal, bubblegum, raisin, smoke, golden, cloudy, white foam, light sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, light body, sticky, average carbonation,

Can. Pours clear straw colured with a tiny white head. Aroma of sweet grain, rather harsh and unpleasant. Taste is leaning toward wet newspaper, even though dry and harsh, strange and unpleasant artificial bitter aftertaste. Watery mouthfeel, cheepish.

2/27/12. 500mL bottle. Clear light copper pour with a small khaki head that fades fast. Light, sweet aroma with a bit of sweet caramel and grassiness. Sweet caramel graininess hits first with a touch of green apple followed by dry grains and grassy hops with a lingering dryness. Not bad.

Bottle from Tesco. Pours a light gold colour with a thin head, no real aroma as such but hints of grass and citrus, the taste is bitter with a soft watery finish.

50 cl can.
Pours pale clear golden color with medium foamy head. Aroma of grass, mild malts, herbal and fruity notes. Flavor of lemone, herbs, soapy notes, grass and mild malts. Watery palate.
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