Callys Czech Pilsner

Brewed by Cally’s Restaurant & Brewing Co. (formerly Calhoun’s)
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Harrisonburg, Virginia USA

Draft. Pours pale yellow with a thinnish white head. Aroma is sweet, and strikingly like Trolli Peach Gummy Rings. Body is similar, adds a bit of lemon. Relatively sweet for a pilsner, lacking some other characteristics of the style (hops?).

on tap-pours a retaining thin white head and pale yellow color. Aroma is sweet grain, secondary flat hops. Taste is sweet grain, secondary flat (saaz) hops.

Sampled this one on draught at the brewpub in Harrisonburg, VA. Pours to a beautiful, bright, deep golden color, with a creamy, white head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with lots of good, herbal and grassy hop aroma, paired with crisp, pilsner malt. The body is crisp and clean, with excellent pale malt flavors, on a round, polished body. This beer finishes with more really good pale malt flavor, then ends with an excellent, herbal/grassy hop bitterness that lingers. Excellent example of pilsner. Lots of good aromas, flavors, and bitterness, yet so drinkable. Very food friendly as well. Would make a good match to a number of dishes on the menu at Calhoun’s.

Not bad, basically a standard lager taste with, as the waitor described it, "a well hopped flavour". It isn’t what I think of when I think pilsner, but I did enjoy it with a meal. Nice spicy aroma, but lots of sour corn present as well. I do like the hop touch, but it wasn’t as wild as our waitor made it out to be.

Clear golden yellow coloured body with a thin white head. Aroma of crisp hops, fresh malt and a small amount of a medicinal twang. Light-bodied; Malty mouthfeel with some of the herbal and lemony flavours coming out after a second. Aftertaste filled with the sharp and distinct qualities of the style, such as the fresh hops and malt. Overall, a nice example of the style from a small and seemingly impressive brewery. I sampled this on ’pseudo-draught’ at the Old Dominion Brew Festival 2004 on 27-June-2004 in Ashburn, Virginia.

Clear yellow. Some head, no nose. Flavor is malty a bit, sweet and a bit fruity with some berry.

(ODBF04) Crisp and balanced. Smooth bitterness. Good pils malt backbone. My favorite from the festival.

Nice to see these guys finally venturing into the world of lager brewing. Nice golden color, good lasting head. Grainy aroma with grassy hops. Flavor matched, but with a spicier hop note than indicated by the nose. Good body. Thanks for the growler Rob!