Penn Penndemonium

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Stein

Bottled. Golden coloured. Hazy. Off white dense head. Sweet and citric aroma. LIght fruits and spice as well. Flavour is sweet and fruity and has a light spicy touch. Medium bodied. Ends on a fruity note.

Bottled. An amber beer with a light sediment floating under a thin white head. The aroma has notes of fruit and malt, as well as a light oxidation. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of fruit - peaches and oranges, as well as notes of malt, alcohol, and oxitation, leading to a dry fruity finish. The body is light inspite of the 8% ABV. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

22 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small with a small white head. Aroma is dry phenolic and spiced. Spiced, light oxidised and flat malty flavoured. Light metallic note. Mild citrusy and bitter flavoured finish.

Hazy deep blond color. The aroma is light, too light malt and cereals. It has a light malt flavor, with some residual sweetness, and smooth mouthfeel; it feels like being old. Quite forgettable.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of goryshkewych. Clear deep golden with a small off-white head. Sweet malty aroma - a little oxidized perhaps. Medium body, sweetish malty and again perhaps a little oxidized with overripe fruit. Carbonation is a little low. Sweet malty finish, no real bitterness. A little over the top but still a decent drink. 220909

weak, tastes german and malty, really dissapointing for such a cool label. Bottle from a tasting at the house of chris Montelius

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a very small sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a softly carbonated orange colored body and a fair lacing. . The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a mellow biting hoppy aftertaste with a soft bock like note to it. The mild flavor contained notes of malt floral hops and dash of caramel. A decent one that I would consider buying again.

A solid pour produces a two-finger thick, pale tan colored head in my 25cl tulip glass. The beer is a light amber color that shows a pretty copper color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of concentrated pale malt, pale toasted grain, a touch of toffee, a light herbal spiciness, a touch of grassiness and maybe even a hint of lemon zest. The nose is fairly mellow on this beer, it could certainly use a touch more expressiveness, but what is here is certainly enjoyable.

Fairly dry up front, but this does pick up some malt sweetness to it. The sweetness mixes with the hop notes and in the finish even takes on a touch of something like a herbal honey. This finishes with a touch of buttery malt flavor as well as a light bitterness that is noticeable but not biting enough to hold the sweet malt in check. This is not an overly sweet beer, in fact I was expecting it to be a bit sweeter than it is. The body has a richness and heft to it that sticks to the palate with a viscous coating quality, still this is not overly heavy as it is not really cloying. Despite being a bit more malt focused, this is actually fairly well balanced between malt and hop, especially when you take into account the herbal hop character. A nice toasty, pale grain character that contributes a touch of dried hay notes peeks through the malt sweetness from time to time.

Not bad, there seems to be a soft diacetyl influence at times that can make this a bit on the buttery side, but it is not overwhelming, even though I can be particularly sensitive to it at times.