Bottle. pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, grain. Flavour is fruit, malt, grain, hay. Boring beer.

Bottle. Clear, pale golden beer with a white head. Quite weak nose, grainy with a little fruityness and some hay. Grainy flavor with bitterness that lasts. Hay as well, initially. Thin to medium body. Decent, or at least not foul, but dead boring. (070809)

Bügelverschlußflasche: Pale golden, mid-sized fluffy head, quickly collapsing and sticking to the glass; sweet-malty and cardboardy nose with a touch of vegetables; weak sweetish-bitter flavour; slightly bitter finish with a big touch of cooked vegetables and a faint metallic tinge. Down the drain.........

I remember having been to Köthen before (in 1991) and tasting some beers of this brewery. First I visited a friend then living in East Germany near Chemnitz, together with jbrus and travelled on, first to Köthen, later on to Berlin. The Köthen beers seemed average, except for a bready helles. And now I renew the acquaintance with this zwickel-pils. Blonde and hazy. Swing top bottle. Firm frothy head, fading away slowly. Light citric but dusty aroma. Medium to full bodied. Malty with a flowery hoppiness and a bit of citrus. Good quality pilsener that IMO has suffered a bit in the bottle.

(swing top bottle) Hazy yellow colour with a firm and quite stable white foam. Dusty, slightly citric and papery malty nose with a touch of grassy hops. Moderately bitter flavour, light to medium body, crispy mouthfeel. Yeasty and malty taste with a hoppy background, which is slightly grassy and herbal; bitter hoppy, slightly papery and a bit sticky finish. Drinkable but not particularly demanding Zwickel Pils.