Penn Pilsner

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Vienna
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Lager glass

There is something fundamentally wrong with this pilsner if that is what the brewery wanted it to be. It is thin and near amber in color. Taste was reminiscent of burnt caramel, and not in a good way with unflattering bitterness. If it is really a Vienna then label it as such.

This is a conundrum. I rated it and hated it as a pilsner, but upon seeing the style as vienna, I want to be a bit more lenient and try to appreciate it as that. My original rating stands. They really need to re-name this one.

"Borrowed" a bottle of this beer from my father... It has a medium sized quickly descending head. It has a slightly cloudy amber colour and a rather sweet smell. It also tastes quite sweet with perhpas a hint of honey. Not really a great beer, but it is certainly interesting enough.

Mix 12 pack my dad bought. Aroma had a little spicy hops. Flavor wasnt to bad maybe a little sweet for a vienna. Not too bad

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2008 Your average pale yellow american beer. Some hops or bitter linger finish. I didn’t seem to notice anything real special about this brew. I’m gonna have to give this a rerate down the road. I may have been to buzzed to properly rate this. On tap at the north park deckhouse in robinson.

Bottle - from sampler pack. Not good. Very strong caramel/butterscotch flavor. Possibly infected. Also very low hoppiness for a pilsner.

GBof A PA-on tap-pours a foamy off white head and yellow color. Aroma is yeast?, musty, grass, light hops. Taste is saaz [actually Hallertau!] hops bitterness, light malt. OK carbonation.

In the bottle. Beer of the Month Club selection- thanks to pman. Pours deep gold with a white head of medium size and fine staying power. Very little hops to the aroma, mostly lager doughy aroma. The flavor is malty sweet followed by a cranberry/lemon tartness, then a lasting residual hop bitterness. Pretty good.