Mahrs Bräu Pilsner

Brewed by Mahrs Bräu
Style: Pilsener
Bamberg, Oberfranken/Bayern, Germany

A Mes rate: 50cl bottle from the local. Pale yellow colour. Standard hoppy German pils but better than most. Nice malty undertones. Crisp, drinkable and refreshing. Let down somewhat by the aroma if you ask me but what do I know?

Shortlived small white head over big bubbled deep-golden beer. First dry-spicy herb, later more sweetish Pilsner malt notes, going over in honey-like, spring blossom aroma’s. Dry, albeit with a sparkling MF, Pilsner, malty and even grainy. Every sip begins with a suggestion of dry hops, then filters out in fully fermented and well attenuated pure pale malt beer. Faint flavour of melon. As said above, dry but sparkling and not a new, but long dry near-bitter aftertaste. This beer, even when it is a fairly classical South German Pilsner, reconciled me with the Mahr’s products, that let me down terribly when at the brewpub.

Bottle...Perhaps the only German beer that I didn’t enjoy. Something about this beer that made me get turned off. A bit to fruity for my taste.

Bottled: Grassy and herbal hop aroma, light malty. Light golden color, small foamy head. Flavor is light bready and light sweet, bitter and aroma hops, medium bodied. Herbal, bitter end. A bit unbalanced.

(Draught at OT, Sockholm) Malty and bitter taste, also a bit fruity and some butter. Slight bit shady golden color, small white head. Medium mouthfeel, low bitterness. Fruity aftertaste.

Bottle at Reading Beer Festival, April 2006. I usually prefer my German pilsners to be steely and crisp. This is a little more smooth and mellow than I usually favour, but it’s a very fine drop nonetheless. Pale gold colour. Plenty of grassy, herbal hops in the aroma backed up by light biscuity malt. Doesn’t get too bready, which is a plus. More insistent tangy hop character on the palate, with a subtle bite. Decent body and firm mouthfeel. Tasty and easygoing.

it is light, it is a pilsener, a lot better than any amercian counterpart, a good refreshing drink, but it is a pilsener, and there is not much to be said about that....

Pours hazy pale yellow with a patchy sudsy white head. The aroma was not too good - pilsnener malt, some spicy hops and buttery diacetyl. Medium body that has some unobtrusive sharp carbonation. The flavor was thankfully better than the aroma. Starts with pils malt, lemony citrus, spicy hops and some cream. The finish has more citrus and spicy hops. An enjoyable pilsener.