Golden. Nice gentle sparkle. Very spicy, fruity hops...unique. Crisp, lingering bitterness. Herbal, minty hop character. Very dry. The body is light, but more like a lighter Bohemian pils than a North German one. The hops - did they use the homegrown in the production batch because they’re really unique in the herb/spice they lend. Nice balance.

Clear scintillating wet straw yellow mounted by a healthy white head which diminishes a bit, but its substance lasts forever and leaves generous traces on the glass. Crunched grain, fresh hay, highly grassy nose with delicate flowery undertones all contribute to a symposium. Complete focus on the ingredients’ purity. And clean. Very clean palate, which dries out from sip to sip in a grain meets pure bittering noble hops, leaving a pleasant grassy dryness. Bitter finish of considerable length mingles into generous, crisp carbonation that cuts short the hints at a potential sweetish toastiness from the malts which never really gets serious. Very German and frankly fuller in body than I expected. Quite flawless in fact.

<i>My Bottom Line:</i><br /> This German Pilsener’s spicy, herbal hop brilliance shines even brighter due to its supporting crunchy haystack. This is an effervescent, bitter quencher which has lured me into submission.<br /> <br /> <i>Further Personal Perceptions:</i><br /> -An everlasting sheet of foam coats the translucent pale golden.<br /> -The aroma also offers grassiness on top of the already well-established spicy hop character and the cracking hay/straw.<br /> -Honeyed sweetness leaks onto the haystack, rendering more complexity to the maltiness.<br /> -Big-bubbled carbonation is frothy and might bother some.<br /> -The wooden, herbal hop flavor and its gripping, dry spicy bitterness are drugging me.<br /> -The tap version was creamier &#40;different carbonation, of course&#41; and the dryness and bitterness weren’t as riveting, but it was still a fine pint of pils. The bottles are superior, imho.<br /> <br /> <b>From quite a few bottles and on tap at Benelux.</b>

341 ml bottle from Métro Joannette , Verdun QC &#40;May 2007&#41; sampled a few minutes out of the fridge from a Christoffel glass. It pours an immense head, creamy on top but slowly decaying into a fluffy, corrguated cumulous-cloud surface with huge bubbles atop the very clear bright gold body, and leaving thick chunky lacing -- pretty well flawless pils appearance.....the spicy Hallertauer aroma is just enormous, it explodes from the glass with as much power as that lovely frothy head, it’s hugely fresh and complex with notes of lime, chalky earth and plenty of biscuity malt.....no disappointment on tasting it either, the thick malt sweetness is the first element noted and as Clark mentioned, it may be a bit too sweet or sticky for some; but for me, enough dryness and bitterness in the hops show up, enough of a dry wheat-cracker character that it basically works....the body is quite full, if I have a problem with it I guess it would be that the carbonation is not quite full enough, and so the stickiness does get a little much though it’s a dryer stickiness &#40;if that makes sense&#41; and doesn’t really ever become cloying. Either equal to or just below Christoffel Blonde as the greatest pilsener I’ve ever had. This brewery has come a long, long way....

Fresh, leafy, grassy, lightly spicy hops complement chewy malts and a hint of diacetyl in the nose. Clear golden body is topped by a decent white head that lasts very well and laces nicely. Chewy, bread-like malts are joined by assertive yet balanced bitterness. Grassy, spicy flavours linger and a hint of butter softens everything up. Bitterness could be perhaps more crisp as this comes across as a hybrid between a German and a Bohemian Pils. Soft bubbled carbonation to the medium light body. Bottle &#40;Trade, May-07&#41; sampled with Oakes in June 2007. Thanks, MartinT! Later resampled without rating on tap at Benelux where stronger carbonation actually made the buttery character more pronounced. Cheers, Ryan! I’m looking forward to many more of your beers when the brewery is up and running...