3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at the brewpub.
Hazy pale yellow with a fine lacing white head. Floral hop pils aroma with a mild malty character. Medium bodied pilsner, sourish yeast with a nice hoppy character that remains in the aftertaste. Nice pilsner.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear, yellow color with a lacing white head. Hay, strong hops with a light sweet taste. Not a complex beer, with a hoppy, bitter aftertaste. Decent pils.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at the brewpub
Muddy blond color; creamy head. Nice cereals and malt aroma. Cereals and malt flavor, with some residual sweetness, hay; the bitterness is not strong. Maybe rough but pleasant.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught @ Salm. Cloudy golden with good white head. Not a lot of aroma, somewhat hoppy. Palate is medium bodied but dominated by an unusually creamy carbonation. Light malty bready start gives way to good long lasting bitter finish. A nice Pils.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Preferred this one to their helles. Color was a slightly cloudy gold with a foamy head. Aroma was wheaty, yeasty and earthy. Flavor was bready, yeasty and earthy as well, with some herbal elements. A well done version of the style for me.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 18, 2009 My Bottom Line:
The piquant hoppiness of this most healthy unfiltered Pilsener drives its spicines into the chewy straw of the base malts to create a pillowy and flavorful quencher not unlike its Franconian cousins.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A dollop of foam bobs atop the cloudy blond.
-The nose is draped in herbal hoppiness, yet it is quieter than the flavor profile.
-Their Helles has better malt character (to my tastebuds), but their bodies are very similar.
-The spicy hop bitterness pleasantly lingers.
On tap at the brewpub.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draught at the brewpub. Cloudy golden colour. Small head. Good aroma hop flavour, sweet and nicely spicy. Mild carbonation. Pleasant and easily drinkable. Not a pils, but good.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at the brewpub.
Cloudy yellow coloured with a white head.
Fruity aroma of malts and hay.
Fruity flavour of malts, hay and hops.
Hoppy finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body: Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2 Pale Yellow(1)->Copper(5) : 3 Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 3
Head: None(1)->Large(5) : 2 Lasting: 3 Lacing : 3
Aroma:
Intensity : 3
Yeast : 1 Bread : 2 Apple : XX Tropical Fruits : XX DMS : XX Diacetyl : XX Sulphur : XX
Malt : 3 Pilsner : 3 Pale : XX Vienna : XX Biscuity : XX Hay : 3 Toasty : XX Caramel : XX Honey : XX Cereals : 2 Grainy : XX
Hops : 3 Noble(1)->American(5) : 1 Leafy : 2 Floral : 2 Lemon/Lime : XX Herbal : 2 Grassy : 3
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3 Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2 Sourness : XX Bitterness : 4 Farmy : XX Complex : 2 Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 3 Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2 Clean : XX Crisp : 2 Sharp : XX Watery : XX Oily : XX Chalk : XX Astringent : XX Alcohol : XX Mineral : 2 Oxidation : XX
Comments: Served quite warm this one, but still a crisp, well-constructed pils though with little identity and very filtered for an Austrian lager. Fair bitterness, quite green.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
on tap at the brewpub. pale golden with a steady white head. light menthol aroma, very grainy, plenty of bitterness, no real sweetness, tasty stuff
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