Pigs Eye Pilsner

Pigs Eye Brewing Company
Brewed at City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Pilsener
St Paul, Minnesota USA

Name: Pig’s Eye Pilsner
Date: 04/12/1996
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Sandy Springs

clear yellow, scant head, good carbonation, slight sweet flavor,

Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 2/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.1/5.0
Score: 4
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(Can, courtesy of Mar) Pours a clear pale yellow with a small fizzy white head. Aroma of mustiness, grass, and light floral. Flavor of corn, grass, and metallic with a dry finish.

Smells like a kernel of corn took a morning piss. Tastes worse. Even in the can, fresh (or as best as you can expect), this had to be one of the worst of the cheapies available for the Oklahoma campus cheap drinkers. Sometimes when you swig back a drink from the can it feels slimy like someone already puked in the can for you.

Perhaps in a pig’s eye this is a Pilsener, but not to me. Why? Because there’s no discernable hop bitterness in the aroma or flavor, and that’s what makes a Pils a Pils. It pours a deep yellow body filled with lazily moving bubbles. The dincus head vanishes almost immediately. The aroma is a light malt with sweet corn syrup and apples. Same with the flavor, although the apples turn a little green. Oddly, tho’, it’s not completely repugnant.

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Loses a point just for changing the label. No, it likely can not afford it. Light straw color with a wispy white head that disappears quickly and never to be seen again. Sweet aromas of white grape juice and just a hint of floral hops. Thin and fizzy feel. Quite sweet in flavor with more floral and perfume flavors than malt and hops. Actually tastes like a thin and weak malt liquor. Very late in the linger some malt is present and is quite pleasant, but I need that in the flavor. Loses some history with the label change, but marketing is marketing and pretty sells. Oh wait, maybe if it was good beer as well it would sell.

Bottle from Shangy’s, Emmaus. Pours pale gold with fizzy head. Aroma of slight hopcit and pale malts. Not much flavor, and a light mouthfeel.

From a can. Very light yellow color. A large head that dissapates quickly. A slightly skunky aroma of grass and dirt. The taste is a light dirt and carrot. Not much else. Not too offensive.

Sampled at ABR 07 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pours a clear pale straw brew with a fast dissolving white head that leaves behind a thin white ring. Aroma of bready malt and a touch of citrus zest hops. Taste is light bodied, well-carbonated with a light bready malt and a touch of citrus zest bitterness. Finish is slightly metallic, a hint of citrus bitterness and then clean finish. Man, I sure miss the Minnesota Brewing Company’s version.