Hurricane Reef Caribbean Style Pilsner

Brewed by Florida Beer Company
Style: Pilsener
Melbourne, Florida USA

Bottle. Rather substandard. Once I read the label I thought to myself "I hope this doesn’t taste like that horsecrap Carib or Kalik". Well, guess what? It does, and it sucks just as hard as those beers do. Don’t waste your time unless you are dying from thrist.

Draft sampler at FBGF. Poured a straw color with a small white head that diminished quickly. Little to no aroma. Light body with soft carbonation. Clearly a light beer.

Too sweet! The aroma is corn and corn syrup and some of that rubbery smell that most beers in clear bottles have. (BTW it’s in a clear bottle.) The appearance is golden and a little hazy. The flavor as I have said is SWEET malt. There is also some bitterness but it’s unusual and not pleasant. Oddly the palate is better and therefore thicker than most pilsners. I have had plenty of beer but I have to say this is the sweetest. As a result it’s hard to drink.

Courtesy of Degarth,

Had a skunk aroma. Yellow body with carbonation and good white head. Overly bitter flavor at first but it subsided by finish. Wasn’t all bad needed wash for my pizza anyway.

Skunky smelling. I’m not being curt that is all I can smell. Pale yellow. Good sized head. not as overly sweet as the recent S American lager mini-tour I took, but not exactly flavorful in any other direction either. Some fairly present malt for a pilsener. Betetr than I thought it would be.

hardly any aroma. orange-yellow in color with small fizzy white head. some yeast floating around. i taste some kind of sweet tropical fruit that tastes kind of gross. very carbonated. not very good at all.

Bottle pours pale yellow, large white frothy head, moderate carbonation, with spotty lacing.   Pale Malt aroma, slight cereal.   Very pale malty flavor, slightly sweet.   Medium bodied, with a slightly less than medium mouthfeel.   Finishes a bit corny, or at least grainy.   Not very crisp, but not terrible.   Meh... definitely a pounder for the hot Florida sun.

This is one of those brews that gives Fl a bad name, this brewer has done better with some other styles but this is not one of them