Green Man Premium Pils

Brewed by Green Man Brewery (NZ)
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Dunedin, New Zealand

Bottle. Deep golden pour, frothy white head, lacy trappings. Biscuity sweet malt aroma with really nice delicate aromas of floral fruit. Generously malty palate, lots of body, perfect balance of flavourful aromatic hops and bittering hops. An exceptional pilsener without being ’in-your-face’ in any way. It may help that I have a super-fresh bottle too. Truly excellent.

Carbonation medium lots of frothy head gold colour aroma biscuit fruit malt flavour fruit malt apricot pear honey not bad tastes light bitter with the good hop influence finish fruity malt light fizz tasty pilsener sweetness good

500ml bottle - looks the goods in the glass, golden with again, a decent persistent head. Light sweet fragrance in the nose. I wonder if this & the lager were swapped at birth. This lacks any hop features, mouthfeel is sweet fruits with some cereal meal type grain notes but finishes sweet. Bizzare but no where near what you would expect from a Pils

500mL bottle. Pours a clear yellow with not a lot of head. Really strong, sweet malt (straw) nose, almost funky. Some floral hops and fruit like apple. Flavours are much the same, not a lot of bitterness. Kind of boring really... No finish that I can tell. A bit watery, and clean on the palate. Overall quite simple but nice and malty.

330mL bottle from the brewery. Pours golden with a fizzy white head which dissipates fully. Cotton candy sweet nose. A lot of vanilla and a little bit of caramel malt. Interesting aroma, for a pilsener. On the taste; initially grassy hops, then some honey like sweetness. Smooth flavour, hints of vanilla. Medium/low bitterness, finishing grassy. Would be an excellent session beer to have a rigger of.

Bottle (500ml). Poured golden with a tiny fizzy head which dropped has fast a soda water. Aroma was of grassy hops with lemon soap, lime and sweet biscuity malts. Flavor was a light hop bitterness with sweet biscuity malts, lemon citrus, light herby notes and grassy clipping in the finish. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation, a dry mouthfeel, watery texture and a average finish. Very little difference between the Pils and the Lager.

(Bottle 50 cl) Slightly hazy golden with an off-white head. Malty and lightly floral nose. Medium body with sweet clean malts and a floral touch. Dry and lightly hoppy finish. 270408

Another decent session lager from this promising Dunedin brewer. Working out of the same city as Emersons is a bit like being Manchester City FC because Emersons set the standard in NZ. However, the two lagers I’ve had from Green Man suggest they’re rising to the challenge. This pilsener was deeper gold than the lager but with inferior head retention. A much bigger aroma than the lager but disappointingly it’s not a million miles away from a hundred standard Australasian macro lagers. Grainy with plenty of malty sweetness and some lemon tartness. Like the lager, it tastes significantly better than it smells. It’s sweet, malty and very clean. Gives no hint of the strength. Some tasty juicy fruit and a dry finish with minimal bitterness. I could imagine sticking away a lot of these. (500ml bottle from Camperdown Cellars. BB Nov 08)