Atlanta Laughing Skull Bohemian Pilsener (2008 and earlier)

Formerly brewed at Atlanta Brewing Company
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Atlanta, Georgia USA

(Bottle) Pours a pale yellow with a thin white head. Flavor of wheat, honey, butter, and citrus. Not a particularly appealing beer.

Bottled, all the way from the Deep South thanks to BelgianHomeBrew. Starts out rather dark for a Pils, clean and clear and honey-amber. Aroma, whoa there’s a lot of sugar there; very caramel-ly but not a lot of hops. I like it, but seems odd for the style, again. Flavor again very malty, but the hops do come on in the end, and boy do they come on! Finishes pretty bitter, but with very little carbonation. Not really ’refreshing’ as a pils should be. This beer had me confused; is it a Pils or a Bock? A lager or and IPA? I don’t know; not bad, not good, but interesting.

Rerate - 6/8/03 - After drinking 3 of the 6 of this and trying to give it a chance because of it being from a small brewer etc - I just have to lower the rating - this beer just ain't right! Funky phenolic taste just overwhelms everything. Original rating - 2.6 - This beer looks good - but everything else is pretty dissapointing. Has a nice thick dark golden pour with a milky white head. Sort of a medicinal - band-aid like aroma to it. Flavor is off - almost tastes skunked - but I see that everyone else states the same thing - so it must supposed to be that way! Flavor -like the aroma - reminds me of band -aids. It grows on you after a while - but not a real enjoyable beer.

Draught at Bayerischer Donisl, Munich.
Light hazy yellow coloured, medium sized white head that went away slowly, pleasant estery fruity nose. The taste is huge letdown, light yeasty, weak fruity and sourish wheaty with not so pleasant tart finish.

Another winner from ABC, I love Laughing Skull and Rogue, always unique.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with goldtwins, thanks Larry!) This bottle opened with a loud pop and poured with so much foam, it took a full 20 minutes to pour. This is not an overly flavorful pilsner, and not one of the better pilsners out there, but it’s not as wretch-inducing as I was led to believe. It’s lightly hoppy and bitter, but doesn’t seem to exhibit much of the maltiness normally found in a Czech pilsner. Medicinal? Yeah, maybe, but having been sick with the flu for the last week, the medicine I was taking tasted much worse. Very carbonated palate, but with enough body so that I wouldn’t call it totally watery. The aroma is lightly hoppy, but kind of vague in it’s characteristics. Medium golden color, very hazy in appearance, but the army of carbonation bubbles rising quickly to the surface is still visible. The huge, foamy, off-white head never settles below an inch and a half and leaves a dense drapery of thick foam on the glass, plus some massive unattractive globs.

Clear gold color, white head, fair lace. Nose, light malt, start is malt, very thin, finish, acidic with moderate carbonation, little hop presence. Love the label, the beer is a ’Typical Pilsner’, lacking in most aspects, but then I like BillB don’t care much for lagers/pils, although they do quench the thirst.

WTF is going on in this beer? Some kind of wierd petri dish, phenolic, rancid butter thing going on in the nose and the flavor. This was a pain to drink. All in all, I'd be hard pressed to tell you whether I wanted a 6 of this or 3 40's of malt liquor. Note to self: NEVER overindulge on this one, because you'll taste it forever. Rerate, downward: After sampling this beer, I was spitting the vile bandaid flavor for hours afterwards. This is unfit for human consumption. It is unfit for marinade. Do not apply externally. It might be useful as slug bait. Re-re-rate, again downward: It's 6 days later, and just looking over my ratings for the past week, I cringed when I saw this entry.