Stratford Pilsner

Brewed by Stratford Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Stratford, Canada

341 ml bottle from LCBO. Pours a clear bright yellow/gold with small white cap. Sweet malt prominent in the nose with some citrus. Flavour is fairly sweet, lightly biscuity with some very apparent cirtus hops. Crisp citrusy finish. Nothing special.

I was surprised by the crisp taste of hop and the finish of malt. I was pleasantly surprised by this beer as I was expecting terrible and got mediocre. But that’s where is stays.

341 ml bottle from jessem. pours yellow with a persistant white head. husky malt aroma, some algea, lacking hops. the flavour is much better, clean barley malt with just enough hops in the end to keep it from being sweet. some light fruity notes in their as well. a very decent beer but it needs more hops to get it in the 3’s. thx for the bottle jesse.

341 mL bottle. Yellow-golden with a small, weak white head. Aroma is a little weak as well, dominated by malt with a little lemon-pepper and a little straw. Flavour is better, with some sweet malt, a solid bite of hops, and some honey. Nice hop bitterness in the finish. Appropriately dry. I’m not a big fan of pilsners, but this one’s not terrible. Really quite drinkable.

nice golden pils like pour. A good white fluffy head. Aroma is sweet malt, and an odd lemony sourish aroma. There are some odd swet/spour corny notes, and again that lemony flavour somes through, this is odd. The malt backbones comes thorugh in the finish. Quite an odd pils, but reallly it is tasty, and quenching.

On the pour, there is hope for this beer, looks like a beer should golden carbonated nectre with a bone white lightly sticky head. On the nose theres some toffee, hops, and citrus. But the beer just doesn’t back up any promise of goodness once it touches the tongue, the flavour is more or less a empty void of taste, the only thing I taste is carbonation, I may aswell be drinking coors light.

Draught at BeerBistro. Nice unassuming somewhat German-style Pils that doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t. Mild aroma and smells and tastes great, refreshing, real hop flavour with no metallic overtones. What hops are in this? "While the definition of “pilsner” is open to much debate in beer community, it generally refers to pale, hoppy lagers, ranging from 28IBUs and up. Pilsners that do not meet the specific characteristics of a German or Bohemian pils will be given this generic classification." Well it’s bang on then.

341ml bottle. Pours a nice golden colour, that’s actually somewhat hazy, with a large, quickly dissipating white head. The aroma is very sweet, malty, with a nice floral background. The taste is very sweet, biscuity malts with a lemony hop presenece (but the lemony taste actually somewhat adds to the sweetness). Not as much bread doughiness as I was hoping. The aftertaste is again very sweet and malty, but with a touch of corn. This is a pilsner more than anything else, a very lemony/citrusy one. Not bad, enjoyable, just not exactly what I was expecting. I really wanted to like this beer, but it was a bit of a let down. It tastes almost like lemon juice mixed with beer. And it looks like it too, because it’s pretty murky yellow. Too bad.