North Coast Scrimshaw

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Fort Bragg, California USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Looks great, but smells like a skunk’s tail. Based on that, I expected a bitter, horrible taste. But it was completely opposite. Flavor is sweet, almost fruity. A little heavy on the carbonation, but an excellent beer. Just hold your breath when you take a drink.

Pour out of 12 oz bottle, clear yellow pour with fizzy white head, aroma brought notes of corn, grass, some hints of earth, biscuit, touch of slight cracker, vanilla and honey. Taste is a nice mix of grain, biscuit, bread, some slight vanilla, cracker, honey, nice grass, spice and yeast notes, finishing fairly bitter, dry. Pretty nice.

12 ounce bottle into pilsener glass, no bottle dating. Pours fairly hazy and cloudy golden straw color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lemon, pear, apple, apricot, floral, grass, bread, honey, and floral earthiness. Pretty nice aromas with good balance and strength of malt, fruity esters, and light hop notes. Taste of lemon, pear, apple, apricot, floral, grass, biscuit, light pepper, honey, light nuttiness, and herbal earthiness. No bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of light fruits, floral, grass, biscuit, light pepper, honey, light nuttiness, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Nice balance and complexity of malt and fruity esters; with a fair amount of hop flavor; and zero cloying flavors present after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a light creamy and fairly crisp mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming noticed after the finish as expected of 4.4%. Overall this is a nice Pilsener. Definitely not as dry as most I have had; but has a nice balance of fairly unique flavors, and is very smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.

This is really bland, no taste, very light, not worst buying this. North coast do much better in other beers.

On tap at momos. Clear straw white head. Almost no aroma. Light cracker taste and dry hop finish. Very drinkable but not complex.

Light gold in color, mildly sweet, not as much hop/dry character as in the best pilsener, but quite refreshing at times.

Pours nice golden color, thinnish head but good lacing. Aroma of hay, funk, grass and yeast. Flavor is nice fruit, malty, some sharpness in the finish. A bit thickish, creamy, especially for this type of beer. Not a bad session beer.

This beer has a golden color. It is very crisp and refreshing. It finishes cleanly with little aftertaste. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Aromas of bread and floral hops. Golden with white head foam. Clean and well balanced. Light body, low carbonation, and a very clean finish.

Pour from a 12oz bottle. Medium yellow brew with short lived head. Mild aroma with gentle hops overtones. Taste is mild but well balnaced - a little sweet malt at the start and a bit of hops in the finish. Overall retrained and subdued, but nice.