Penn Pilsner

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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(Bottle) Pours a light amber color with a large frothy head. I wish the beer tasted as good as it looked. It had kind of a sour taste.

UPDATED: SEP 14, 2008 Name: Penn Pilsner
Date: 10/08/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

Appearance: muddy amber, whispy white head,
Aroma: lightly sweet floral malt aroma,
Flavor: flavor has lots of bitterness on a dry malt base,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2.1/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

Bubbled clear light amber topped by quickly dissipating beige head. Aroma is sweet butterscotch, caramel, floral, light earthy. Taste is butterscotch up front, followed by caramel, floral, before finally finishing earthy bitter. Medium body, some crispness at the end. A decent beer, but I would have liked it much better without the butterscotch.

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.

Bottle at Dilly Deli. Poured clear amber color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Moderate tart citrus and malty aroma. Light to medium body. Medium bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Drinkable smooth brew.

Bottle... Clear, light amber lager with a large, rocky, off-white head. Excellent, creamy retention. Herbal, earthy aroma with a hint of crisp citrus fruit. Malty, earthy flavor. Leans just a fragment on the sweet side of balance. Light carbonation. Malty, bittersweet finish. Not really brewed to style, but I see Ratebeer has this one categorized as a Vienna. I agree.

Bottle shared courtesy of fatty. Poured a clear golden color with a small sized white head. Musty grassy aroma and tastes with breadiness to it. Thin and watery body.

A medium bodied vienna with a dry and sweet finish. Now, knowing the style as a vienna I understand its malty aroma and malty taste. Satisfying, not offensive nor interesting. Corn and carmel too, a macro brew replacement. Apparently not made by the brewery.

A vienna? Then why call it a pilsner? I don’t know, but I guess the nose agrees well enough with the vienna style. It’s a bit buttery though, almost bourbon-like with the butter note, though. With some hay and grass scents, some dusty, dirty, earthy grains and a bit of an overly sweet corn and caramel smell, it doesn’t set up very well. Altogethor the nose is missing a lot, and has too much of an adjunct (corn and butter) scent. The color of this clear beer is pretty much spot on for orange, and the white head is about two fingers deep when poured, but dies down to a white film with a small amount of lacing present. Light and crisp up front, flavors are pretty faint, with some corn, butter, cracked barley and cereal grains tasted. Across the middle and towards the back of the tongue there’s a decent amount of bitterness, more of the cracked cereal grain flavor, and a husky, slightly sweet malt extract syrup flavor. At times this even smells and tastes like an old towel. Palate is left dry and slightly scorched, like burnt grapenuts cereal. I guess this gets a ’meh’ overall.

Pours light amberish, with a great aroma of malt and hops. Solid, smooth, crisp mouthfeel, with some malt, hops, and toffee at the finish. A solid, complex pils.