Gösser Beer (Export)

Brewed by Gösser (Brau Union)
Style: Pale Lager
Leoben, Austria

Pale golden colour, thin white head fading to lace. Light malt aroma. Faintly bready with a noble hop character. Flavour is similar, a bit bready, light caramel with a decent hop finish. Moderate bitterness. Well made, if unspectacular.

Golden color with a quick diminishing white head. Bready malty aroma. Mouth feel is heavier than I expected. Slight citrus and grassy flavour. A decent brew.

About as middle-of-the-road as a beer can get... Hops are mediocre and give off a slight skunk taste, an ever-so-faint malt presence that needs to be a little more assertive. Not bad, but not worth going out of one’s way to acquire.

1/2 liter can poured a golden-straw colored lager with a decent fluffy cap. Good lacing and the cap has fair retention. Medium effervescence. A pungent aroma of bread dough with grassy-mown hay hop tones ( very promising). Mouth feel a tad thin... malt backbone ( sweet doughy) does not stand out against the hops ( far too pronounced for a helles) which add a lemon twang to the clean finish. Not a bad beer but not enough malt pronouncement for a Helles and a tad much for a pilsner... Is this a pilsner trying to be a Dortmunder or a Helles trying to be a Pilsner? ...this beer has an identity crisis....not bad though.

Grainy sweet malt aroma. Clear golden blonde with shy white head that diminishes to slight ring. Grainy flavour with light floral/herbal balancing bitterness. Somewhat watery with very strong carbonation. Can.

Bottle. Slightly hazy yellow beer with minimal head. Barely any aroma, just some faint malt. Light grainy flavors with a balanced bitterness. No hop flavors to speak of. Not much malt character, either. Finishes about as clean as water. Could drink like water, but why? Perhaps I need a fresher sample.

Beautiful gold with slow bubbles. A thin white head. Very light aroma of cooked green beans and some bread. The taste is a light and refreshing blend of celery with a hint of black pepper. Not much character here, but this would make a nice lawn mower beer.

Definately one of my favorite Austrian beers. Very light and fizzy, but with a decent palate and clean finish. I order this one a lot, when I can find it, but wouldn’t buy quantities of it. I nice fallback.