Tröegs Scratch 17

Formerly brewed at Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Hershey, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

(12oz bottle) Pours a lightly hazy yellow body with a spare white head. Aroma of toasted grain, light lemon, light honey, and florals. Flavor of hops (floral, grass, light lemon) and grain.

Cleaning out the fridge and there was a scratch 17 in there...12oz bottle. Poured a medium and hazy yellow color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of wet grass, lighter citrus, and straw. Tastes of straw, earthy, grains, and lighter citrus.

Deep gold with off-white head. Nose is pale malt, Saaz hops, slight honey. Tastes crisp, hoppy, with pale malt, mild lemongrassy grains, some honey-apricotty flavor, and a smooth palate.

Bottled. Poured pale, almost milky golden with a short, easily-resuscitated off-white head. The aroma picked up soft bready notes accented by bananas and mild berries.. a warm, dark honey sweetness emerged with warmth. The flavor found the honey and bread again at the core, with lightly toasted earth, lemon zest, and chalky bitterness around.. more lemon sourness than bitterness on the short, grainy finish. Light-bodied and dry on the palate.. felt OK, but never any better. This was alright, but lacked that nice, somewhat bitter, crisp feel I like from my pilseners.

Bottle pours a golden hazy body with 3 finger white head. Dusty belgian hops hints of coriander and some lemon and citric notes. A hint of honey and floral citrus. Overall decent.

Hmmpf. Boring pils time. Yellowish pour. Malty grainy nose with some hops. Flavor has more hops than most crappy pils. For the style this one is above average but not amazing.

UPDATED: JUN 14, 2009 12 oz bottle from Capones. Pours a very hazy light blonde/straw with a nice fluffly sticky white head and killer lace. Aroma is light lemon zest, herbal and flowery hops, with hints of bubblegum- tons of fresh doughy pils malts, and ligth crackery hints. Flavor is zesty and herbal hops- flowery, toasted malts, doughy bready pils, with a slight solvent lemon zest kick - light soap, yeasty dough, and continental noble hop floral and spicy kick. Clean and refreshing- dry and a nice medium bitterness. Kind of like an amped up sunshine with slightly different hops.

Courtesy of markwise. Pours hazy gold with thin off white head. The aroma is tart lemon smelling followed by grains. The taste starts with a quick pulse of tartness and then moving into modest floral to spicy hop notes. It ends with an additional layer of grains and malts. Nice refreshing brew.