Vogelbräu Karlsruhe Pilsener

Brewed by Vogelbräu Karlsruhe
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Karlsruhe, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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On tap at the brewpub in Karlsruhe, Germany. Pours a hazy gold-yellow color with a rocky frothy white head. Aroma is a sweet malty paste with some straw at the end. Taste has the small brewhouse taste with nice meelo malts, grains and mix of light fruit. Palate is a wonderful mouthfeel and after taste. Ends tart. Wow.

Cloudy orange body with a small white head. Grassy aroma. Taste starts grassy then becomes suddenly fresh-made bread. Chicory-wise bitter finsh, which becomes malty. Seems strange this bitter/malty alternance, but I really don’t know how to explain it. You should try it yourself. It reminds me somehow of Forschungsbrauerei’s Pilsissimus, but less bitter than it. Medium bodied, lively carbonation

Hazy golden yellow huge head lacing high carbonation fruity malty decent hops pleasant fresh aftertaste.

Little hazy (but he, its unfiltered) golden yellow with decent fluffy white foam head. Aroma is nice bitter pilsener, some flowers. Stark taste, not too bitter, but pleasant stark. Aftertaste is pleasant, fresh and bitter. (Karlsruhe 201211)

Look: unfiltered golden beer, nice creamy white crown. smell of bitter hops and rich malt. Taste :When drinking it, a malty aroma spreads in mouth. Very well carbonated.rich pilsener taste.after that a pleasant and refreshing bitterness. Great cool beer on a hot summer day. Tapped army Vogelbräu Durlach

At wedding in Offenbach. Hazy sweeter beer with hop ending. Quite nice. Serving: Tap

Herb-bitterer Beginn, erfrischend. Die Bitterkeit bleibt, etwas stärkerer Hopfen und auch Bitterkeit, stimmig. Rund, natürlich, knackig bitter. Gut! 10/10/10/11//11

Bottle 5L from the brewery in typical German bottles, a cloudy yellow beer with intense head and heavy carbonation. A quite dry beer with good body, pleasant hops bouquet, high carbonation, refreshing and easy drinkable.

UPDATED: JUL 24, 2011
2011-06-21, draught at the brauhaus in Kapellenstraße, 8-4-7-4-16=39
Cloudy blond color (it seems paler than usual), with beautiful creamy head. Wonderful aroma, noble hop, Hallertau. The mouthfeel is dry, there is a quite good crispy malt flavor, but surpassed, covered by a very strong hopping, very green, a bit aggressive but also aromatic. The final is maybe too bitter. Good and pleasing, rough.

2011-05-09, draught at the brauhaus in Ettlingen, 8-4-7-4-15=38
Today this beer has a particular accent on biscuity malt aromas. As often happens at Vogel, the ending bitterness is quite grassy and harsh.

2011-01-17, draught at the brauhaus in Ettlingen, 5.1% ABV, 12% Sw., 7-4-8-4-15=38
Muddy light amber color; compact, generous head. Nice hop aroma, mild, with some apple presence. Good malt flavor, a bit sweeter than other times, therefore better balancing the strong bitterness, that comes with green hops. Powerful final too, and less harsh than in other occasions. A bit uncontrolled as usual, not elegant, but very enjoyable.

2010-09-14, draught at the brauhaus in Ettlingen, 8-4-7-4-15=38
Cloudy deep blond color, creamy head. Very nice hop aroma, very hopflowery, green. Dry mouthfeel, with some crispy, biscuity malt, lean, but hidden by a very bold bitterness, and an aggressive, green hopping. The final is a bit harsh. Very refreshing, a bit rough.

2010-09-01, draught at the brauhaus in Kapellenstraße, 8-3-7-3-15=36
Cloudy blond color; compact head. Very nice hoppy aroma, grassy. Good mouthfeel; powerful hopping, green, very aromatic; maybe the final is a bit harsh.

2010-07-28, draught at the brauhaus in Durlach, 8-4-7-4-15=38
Muddy dark blond color; generous and compact head, persistent. It has a wonderful hop aroma, and with crispy malt. The body is correctly structured, the mouthfeel is dry, there is a good crispy malt flavor (decent intensity), and very strong bitterness; the hop has undoubted aromatic qualities, but I have to admit that at the very end the bitterness is maybe disturbing a bit. Aggressive and very good beer.

Draught @ Vogel Hausbrau Ettlingen, Rheinstrasse 4, Ettlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany 76275.

Unclear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, straw, light to moderate hoppy, grass, citrus, soap. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus peel bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100929]