 ClarkVV (3547), Allston, Massachusetts, USA
May 10, 2006 Updated: May 18, 2006
BIG Thanks to Engelsmann for this bottle. Best before SEP 07, it says. Huge white head, very strong retention, snow white in color and very dense/creamy, providing ample sheets of lace. Great clarity in the very pale-straw body, with faint bronze-copper tints. Unfiltered, but settled and carefully poured. Tiny bubbles rising methodically in the liquid. AROMA. Nose just blows up, surging forth with saaz and hallertauer dryness, but just enough light grass-like fruitiness and a very crisp lager yeast bite that dries things out even moreso on the end. Snappy, crisp, dry, highly aromatic, this is pilsener at its best. Further sniffing shows ripe green bartlett pears, mixing with a mildly sweet, almost tart white grape juice note. Malt is grainy, with minimal traces of sourdough, but it adds substance without butting in on the masterpiece that is the hops and yeast. FLAVOR. Pears and juicy white grape juice notes combining with lighlty sourish malts and crisp, snappy yeast, flow gracefully down the throat, with not-overdone carbonation. The dry, hay-like, sweaty and grassy hops keep things very dry, without overdoing the bitterness. Just a wonderful job with the finishing hops! Malt adds light honey that lets the crisp notes simultaneously nip at the palate and then sink in to a soft sweetness, only to be rinsed lightly by the engaging carbonation and then further cleared by the genuinely crisp yeast. No flaws whatsoever. Perhaps a little vacuousness in the middle, with some water and just a touch too round of a maltiness, but then, not all pilseners are bone dry. Oregano/dill and grass come in retronasal, quite pleasingly. Perfect carbonation levels, thanks to a superbly executed bottling job, especially for an unfiltered, delicate lager. Texture is supple, bit too round at times as stated, but it makes up for it by being wonderfully dry at the beginning and end. If this does indeed have American-style hops in it, they are certainly used sparingly and complementary.
larsniclas (3031), Gothenburg, Sweden
Oct 4, 2008 Sampled at EBF08.
Pale golden, slightly hazy.
Light cereal maltiness.
Dry, floury bitterness.
Rune (1809), Tromsø, Norway
Oct 1, 2008 100ml from bottle at EBF 08. Light hazy, late straw body – fading, white foam. Citric aroma. Taste of sweet passion fruits, supplemented by discreet bitter endnotes. Clean tasting, refreshing and easy to drink. More than an average pilsner (12.09.2008).
ChristianScheffel (2216), Odense, Denmark
Sep 24, 2008 Cloudy yellow with a big white head, long lasting thanks to constant bubbles. Aroma is filled with hops, floral, grassy, a little pine, and an assortment of tropical fruits. The flavour is sweetish and fruity with more than enough bitterness to balance. It’s close to being a hop bomb, which unfortunately is a little more than continental style hops can carry in my opinion.
gam (576), brisbane, Australia
Sep 21, 2008 500ml bot-Thick frothy head on a misty gold pour,ample carbonation.Aroma,hops fruit malt,a perfume.Flavour passionfruit,malty,hops good,stonefruit,slight creaminess.Pils with a difference right colour and different balance of taste,more toward fruitiness.Still has the look of a pilsener and hop taste of German styles,it is a very nice beer with the crispness of good pilseners.Finish crisp fruity rewarding.
FatPhil (2362), Espoo, Finland
Sep 21, 2008 Bottle (EBF2008)<br />
Citrussy hop aroma. Palate a bit watery. Very pleasant, but a bit thin. Fruity, which is good. Thin, which isn’t. Nice summer chugger I’m sure.
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