Binding Römer Pils

Brewed by Binding-Brauerei (Oetker Group)
Style: Pilsener
Frankfurt, Germany

O,5 l bottle from the supermarket at Frankfurt airport. Lovely, bitter pils. Pine aroma, but there is some soft fruit in there, too, lurking underneath. The crispy dryness is the thing here, a near perfect pils in my book!

Tap. Why the low ratings? Poured a yellow orange, somewhat cloudy with thick and creamy white head. Smells of a good amount of malt and honey. Sweet, malty and grassy.

Aus der flasche from an off-license up Münchener straße, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (July ’06).
Back at the hotel as the mercury was near boiling point. Our small room had two much needed necessities - a fridge, and air-conditioner - so we were set for another midday session before heading out. This one, chilled, did quite nicely. It pours a bright, cheerfully glowing gold with whispy, intermittent and fine carbonation. Head, reluctant to rise off the pour finally established itself a thin, dense white pad that left little evidence upon the glass. Aroma is malty and quite sweet, bready, toasted and quite gritty confusing it for style (I had previously tasted the Dortmunder-styled Binding Export - the aroma for this more suited that style!). Comes together in the mouth though, holds well. Malt is dry here and slightly ’haystack’ grainy. Shy front end sweetness develops, back is herbal, cleanly sour malt and hops shine in well before a peppery, mildly bitter end that shows some stuffy, earthy hops and more dry malt. It is crisp, clean and avoids that soapy edge most dry pilsners ail from. Nothing but malt and hops good!! The body is featherweight, the carbonation nothing more than an addition to keep it lively. It went down without an ill-thought in my mind, the next went down without any though at all. Not bad, one that’s just good, honest sessionable!!! (50cL, BB 25/01/07)

As BBK Pils ... the deep yellow color of a honey mustard with nice tiny-ballooned head. Rich and cookie-dough-based malt with slight starchy finish. I can drink a ton of this stuff.

Respectably dry, herbal taste.

Pleasant gold apperance with underlying malteness. A bit bland and there are certainly lots better around but overall not a bad beer.

On tap at a place off Zeil between Hauptwache and Konstablerwache in Frankfurt. The label just said Binding pilsner- no Romer. Not too bad a beer. Very fresh tasting and crisp. Delightfully strong fluffy head atop the footed glass it was served in. Yellow and fizzy with a grainy flavor that works. One could pound a few of these in between apflewines on the Romerplatz.

The bottle looks good, the beer in the glass also. Tastes more spicy then dry. Modest hoppy. Malty and spicy finish. Very drinkable. Good beer!