Bottle (purchased at the brasserie): Clear, golden mid-sized lacing white head, grainy, sweet-malty and fruity-yeasty - a special house quality? - nose, softly interrupted by grassy hops; moderate, slightly dryer bitter-sweet flavour, light bodied; yeasty, bitter, harsh finish. Not well balanced, hops are not blending in, the Pilsner character is disturbed by the yeasty aromas..........

(bottle) Clear, pale golden colour with a medium-sized foamy white head. Sweet, quite bready malty nose with shy herbal hops. Light-bitter flavour with a touch of residual sweetness, light to medium bodied with a crispy, slightly fizzy, not perfectly matured carbonation. Bready malty base with light herbal accents; bitter-sweet, lightly hoppy finish. Lacks maturation.

(Bottle 33 cl) Comes as "Holnsteiner Mini Pils". Clear, pilsener golden with a white head. Clean, malty aroma. Medium body with distinct, sweetish notes and some dry hops in the finish. But the sweetness seems to dominate. 131106

A golden beer with a disappearing beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with a light metallic note from the hops. The flavor is sweet malty, at first with a note of caramel, but soon the metallic hops comes along and dominates towards a sweet end with the metal note lingering for a long time. Not a favorite.

tasted this on tap at a pretty seedy poolhall in amberg. looked great with a big furry head but turned out to be pretty bland. pleasant very late bitterness but no real character