Schwelmer Pils

Formerly brewed at Brauerei Schwelm
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Schwelm, Germany

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

Aroma: Honey / Maple Syrup / Malt / Almond / Light Fruit Appearance: Beautiful Golden Amber color Taste: Wheat, Light Citrus, Honey, Almond Palate: Soft / Fluid Overall: Session Beer, or sipper. It’s definately one of those beers to savor after a hot day working in the yard. It’s refreshing and wonderful - This should be the standard of the big guys like Miller/Bud/Bullshit - in a perfect world.

Pop-top @ Rudat, Dortmund-Oespel, Germany. Pours a very clear gold with glacier sized, cotton white head. Nose is grains, wild grass, and late summer arid business. Taste is grains, slight bitters with a medium-light body that’s not too bad. Palate is ok, but one-dimensional.

Bottle. Pours gold with a thick white head. Low bead. Smells slightly earthy and quite spicy with light honeyed malt. Full-bodied for the style. Clean malt sweetness with substantial bitterness. Brief bitter finish. Leans much more towards the Czech pils than other Germans I’ve tried. Good.

500 ml bottle (One Pint Pub, Helsinki, Kölsch Days 2010)
Pale yellow, small heal. Thin papery aroma, but mostly. Malty, even grainy, but quite light. Taste differs, it’s more hoppy. still short of what I want from a pils, and too papery for being a good pils too.

(Bottle at One Pint Pub) Poured very pale golden and clear. Head was small and white. Aroma was herbal, malty, grainy and mildly grassy. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were hops, grass, herbalness, malts, grain, fresh malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was malty and bitter.

This is a German pils. Yes it is, it totally tastes like one, I swear it.

500ml bottle. Pours a clear, bright gold, with a strong head and good lacing. The aroma is all hops - floral, grassy and slightly sweet. There is an unusual sweetness up front, as the beer enters the mouth, followed by strong, spicy pilsener hops. This flows into an enjoyable malt finish, tempered by the same lovely hops. A great example of the German interpretation of the pilsener style.

Big foamy pour, straw colour. Nse is straw and grass. In the mouth it is medium bodied and quite snappy. Perhaps a bit old but was still quite enjoyable.