3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
33cl Bottle: Lightly sweet aroma. Smells strongly of banana and some spices. Poured a golden-brown color with a large, rocky, fizzy, barely-off-white head that got smaller but lasted throughout. Very cloud. Small particles. Flavor is medium bitter. Tastes of hops, orange peel, spices, black pepper, coriander, Belgian yeast, earth, and more pepper. Medium body. Dry body. Lively carbonation. Dry, bitter finish. Overall, interesting, but the flavor is a bit too much for me.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draught at the t’IJ brewpub. Hazy golden color with creamy head. Sweet and malty aroma with vanilla. Thick, grainy maltiness in the flavor along with rich bitterness and oily herbal hops. Some sourness.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
maybe my bottle is fucked up but its a beautiful cloudy gold with a thick fluffy head - never have i seen a pilsener with such an appealing appearance. the aroma is complex, with hints of citrus and fruit. the taste is incredibly complex for a pilsner as well - highly recommended.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle acquired in Florida at Knightly. The beer pours to a hazed flat yellow colored body with visible carbonation and a gorgeous rocky/fluffy white head and nice lacing. The aroma has grassy hops with light yellow apples and yeasty silage. Very aromatic and quite nice. The flavor is hoppy, yeasty, bananas, and grassy hops. Sort of like a Belgian ale mixed into a hefeweizen and a pilsener. The palate is mineral laden and extremely over-carbonated. A medium body and bitterness hit later.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
A Mes rate:
Bottle at Lowlander. Cloudy golden with a big white head. lovely Belgian type hoppy nose. Nutty and spicy flavour. Crisp clean and very hoppy. Tangy and aromatic with an almost bretty sourness in an Orval type way. Salt and pepper finish. Interesting and enjoyable pils that is in my opinion one of the best offerings from this brewer.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft - Clear a little thin corn colored body, creamy white head, lacing; Fresh a little lemon like, very malty: Slightly sour fresh, slightly bitter body; Very long very bitter finish, first hoppy later malty. Great, fresh and very drinkable.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: SEP 1, 2007 bottle from uto. I grabbed this because it is one of the few newbies at uto and ’t IJ has yet to let me down. I don’t know why, but I was not expecting what came out of the bottle. I got very worried as soon as I smelled it and sussed that it was a pilsner - a quick ratebeer search confirmed my fear. Totally shocked that it is actually quite good. Pale gold with signature IJ head - massive, sparkling and ever-swelling. Yeasty pils aroma. Refreshing light taste of yeast, grass and citrus. Salty grass finish. Drinkable indeed.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Interesting. Straw colored. Yeasty smelling, with some fruitiness. I wonder if they used a Belgian yeast for this. Lots of Belgian type overtones to the flavor. There is a slightly bitter after taste, but the flavor is largely fruit and yeast. Nice take on a pils.
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