Telegraph Cerveza de Fiesta Pilsner

Brewed by Telegraph Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Santa Barbara, California USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a white head. Has a fruity grainy malty aroma. Fruity grainy malty crisp flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy crisp finish with weak grassy finish.

(Draught) Pours a clear yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of grain, grass, and light skunkiness. Flavor of grass, grain, and light lemon with a dry, bitter finish.

So good to be #10 rater. 750 c&c from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Batch No. 81. Opens with a cannon shot. Pours light gold with a fizzy/creamy white head. Aroma is mildly bready with some grassy hop. Med + body. The carb is very frothy. There’s a lot of grass, and the breadiness is not obnoxious. The BC may be a bit over the top, but there’s an incredible amount of flavor. The bitter is tearing at my jaw hinges. This after finishing off a Evil Twin Freudian Slip. I’m nominating this one for an Imperial Pilsner. Excellent lager (and I’m not a friend of those for the most part).

Bottle (Batch 55). Appears to be vastly over carbonated. Pours with a huge white head over a slightly hazy golden body. Aroma of apple, a bit of belgian yeast esters (odd), grainy, hoppy, grassy and spicy. Taste is dry, bitter, spicy and grassy hops. Very lively bubbles, over carbonated. Dry. Bland, but not bad at all.

A: The pour is a very pale straw color with just a thin layer of white foam. S: The aroma on this is very, very heavy on the sweetness, seems like corn. There is some grass and maybe even green chile peppers (or some sort of green vegetable). Light malt and bread with just a hint of yeast. T: Lightly sweet malts with lots of green, vegetal notes start this one off. There is quite a bit of grass and straw with just a mild yeast note. There is also a hint of banana on the background. M: The body is light with a medium level of carbonation. O: I should have known better, but my curiosity got the best of me. Not recommended.

Bottle. Yellow-straw beer with a big white head. Malt andlight spice aroma. Malt and spice flavor with light mineral notes. Medium bodied. Malt and spice lingers with light mineral notes.

Bottle thanks to a generous trader. Pours cloudy gold. White head. Nose/taste of pilsener malt, bready malt, yeast, lemon and light banana. Medium body. Lots of pleasant lemons and breads throughout.

Bottle from City Beer. Pours clear yellow with a massive meringue-like white head and a sharp banana aroma. There is a surprisingly thick pilsner flavor wtih a dry bitter finish.

Bottle:   Orangish straw, thick and hazy, large fluffy white head, nice lacing.   Grassy nose, a little dry straw/hay as well.   Nice and grassy on the tongue, straw, hay, even a touch wheaty.   Not as crisp as others, but it also feels a bit heftier.   Backside is a little astringent, but only slightly.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate to full.   Tiz okay, could stand to be a little crisper and less astringent, but I bet that it would also be not as full bodied.   Seems a bigger Pilsener, at a cost.

Draft at Imbibe Wine. Nose is lightly flowery and white bread type yeast. Urine yellow with a big heavy lacing white head. Lightly bitter, lightly sweet, and a hint of caramel flavorwise. Not bitter enough for a good pils.