New Belgium Blue Paddle

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

12oz bottlesss. Pours a clear golden with some fizzy bubbles and a nice dense small fine white froth, looks good. Aroma of light cereal and light noble hops, some flour, fairly clean. Flavor is not quite as clean, still pretty good, some cereal, bitter noble hops, not too sweet thankful, just a bit sweet and grainy in the finish which ruins the illusion. Medium bodied, slightly chewy, crisp carbonation.

"Not bad for a pilsner. Bright yellow pour with aroma of grass and hops. The flavor is more hops than your average pilsner and when served very cold makes for a decent beer. "

12oz bottle. Pours a crystal clear, pale golden body with a foamy, two-finger width, white head that dissipates slowly and leaves a lot of streaky, clinging lace. Aroma is a light amount of sweet malts, crisp hops, and fruits. A bit of bread and grass. Flavor is semi-sweet bread malts, lemon, and an above average amount of bitterness. Finishes grassy and very dry with a moderate duration. Palate is medium bodied, smooth and malty. I was hoping for a lighter body. Overall, a fairly bitter pils with a nice balance. The hops are crisp, but a little too full in body. Not bad though.

12 oz. bottle, "mix-a-six" rack at Hy-Vee, Storm Lake, IA. Basic pour with a clear, golden pils color and a thin head of foam in my tumbler. Some oxidation right up front, that never really goes away. Definite all-malt taste with a proper golden pilsener toast. But that skunkiness is staying in the beer, overpowering what should have been a decent brew. Bottle read "Best before 20NOV09," so maybe it sat on the loading dock too long?

Pours pale gold with a white uneven head. Nose is grassy. Taste is sweet malt up front, with mild hop bitterness in the finish. Nothing spectacular, but a good pils.

as it is, and probably should always be, it’s in one’s own taste buds and, i have always enjoyed this pilsener/lager, especially in it’s complex aftertastes lingering like a cool breeze rippling across a still pond.

Good pilsner beer. i agree that this would be a good crossover. Similar to the millstream pilsner. yellow color...light white head.

Clear and golden on the pour with a short white head and minimal flecks of lace. The aroma was sweet, almost some adjuncty corn coming through, very little spicy Saaz hops noted. The flavor follow suit with sweetness dominating with not enough spicy hops to balance it out. Thin body. Tasted more like a run of the mill pale lager than a Pilsener.