Emersons Pilsner

Brewed by Emersons Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Dunedin, New Zealand

A Mes rate: 50cl bottle via Phil_L> Nice one mate this is a stunner. Lovely tropical fruit and crisp hoppy nose. Hazy gold good head. Lovely grassy hops with licks of passion fruit around the edge of the mouth. Great palate. More tropical fruit in the finish. Superb.

Bottle. A clear golden color with a medium white foam. Aroma is grass, citrus, hay, with a hint af passionfruit (!). Medium body, lively cabonation, and a medium sweetness finished with a nice bitter and long finish. A great thirstquencher / summerbeer. Probaly one of the best pilsner i’ve ever tasted.

Draught @ Copenhagen Øl Festival. Average fizzy white head that mostly diminished. Light cloudy golden colour. Dusty grain, floral hops and some fruity notes. Medium bodied with a lively carbonation and somewhat crisp and dry texture. Flavour was well balanced between the floral bitterness and malty sweetness. Dry and somewhat bitter finish. Excellent Pilsner and the best so far!

Bottle @ Københavnske Øldage 2007 in Copenhagen. Clear yellow / amber color with a average frothy fair lacing white head. Aroma is moderate malty, celar / earth, toffee, butter. Initail flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet and celar bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft.

It’s a straw, hazy beer with a huge, white and lasting head. The aroma has a lot of fresh aroma haps with a lot of fruity notes. The flavour leads the thoughts toward a pale ale, and it’s hard to understand, that this "only" is a pilsner. It has a nice bitterness, loads of fruit (citrus mostly) - it’s really, really nice - one of the best pilsners I ever tasted.

500ml bottle at Coastguard, St Margarets. Hazy pale gold colour with thin lasting white head. Given it’s called a pilsener I wasn’t expecting this. Yeast, passionfruit/tangerine/mango aroma. Lightish in mouth. Some structure. Swallow has more tropical fruit and a good hop bite. Quite drying. An impact lager. Bit too flashy? Maybe. Maybe the fruit is too sweet and cloying to make it drinkable for a session. Creamy in mouth. The drying finish is very pleasant. Good fullness in mouth. In theory I should like it a lot, has all the elements I like, but there is something lacking.

Really great stuff! Clear-ish, beaut aroma... lychee, grapefuit, citrus, lemon, elderflower! Great body, mid fizz, fat bubbles, great body, love this stuff... Such a great finish! And, wow! I have 10 more bottles!

Bottle. Pours pale yellow with a bubbly lacing white head. Aroma is nice, malty and very fruity. Quite full mouthfeel. Taste is round, malty sweet, then turns Saaz bitter. Quite excellent for the style!