Odell Double Pilsner

Brewed by Odell Brewing Company
Style: European Strong Lager
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

12oz bottle-A hazy pale golden body with no head and an aroma of citrus and pale malt. Taste of malt, hop citrusy, and not a bit of alcohol taste for the alcohol content. A light to medium bodied beer. Not a bad beer but very interesting.

12oz bottle. Clear and filtered. Bright golden hue. Spiral of white head. Slight grainy nose. Medium and sweet. Long, lingering dryness, but with a cloying caramel candy medium roast. Nice mild burn. Crisp yet rounded. Hits every part of the ole taste buds. Cookie malts, Little sweet cocoa. Lively mouthfeel. Tart middle. Finish a barage of muddled hops with the malts lingering the longest. Very pleasant!

This is a decent single-release batch by Odell. Pours a nice crisp looking gold color, decent head. This one is bready, It has a barleywine like taste to it, to me. Like a really really light barleywine. It’s sweet, has a good hop bite - full bodied. Alcohol is present in the taste but doesn’t distract too much.

12 oz. bottle from Merchant of Vino / Whole Foods. Drank on 8/8/06. Very clear, golden yellow. 1+" creamy white head. Slowly drops to a thin layer. OK lacing. Aroma - bready, sweet, lemony citrus. Fairly strong. Flavor - Relatively high up front bitterness. Kind of sweet, almost lemony with a definite alcohol flavor in the background. Fairly dry finish. Palate - pretty light. Overall - a good beer, but definitely different. Aroma, most of the flavor and the body of a pilsner, but at 8%. Doesn’t really hide it very well. No real hop flavor or aroma. I guess I want some more body to back up the alcohol. Maybe that’s what they’re going for though, a big beer ABV-wise, but nice and light for the summer?

Clear yellow body, with white, small, frothy headthat lasts; all points come from head, not body. Peppery hops and bready notes with lots of honey in the aroma. Taste is bread, lightly toasty, with sweet honey filing in. Spicy and floral hops come to the forefront quickly and last fully and throughout. Medium bodied, but with a chewy texture and highly carbonated; lacks the crisp flavor of most bohemian pilsners. Finish is thick and surprisingly lon and sweet, but peppery hops finally take over in the end. Interesting, but not a great beer. Nothing sets it apart from mediocre beers.

12oz bottle via trade with kenb! - Thanks Ken! - Pours golden and sparkling with much carbonation rising to the top and settling in the 1 finger foamy white head. Aromas of light floral and grassy hops blended with lots of bready notes. Flavor is sweet with bready malts, and a little honey, a touch of peppery spice on the finish. Pretty heavy for a pilsner and much less crisp on the palate. Plenty of carbonation too. Reminds me a lot of Golden Shower.. Drinkable but nothing great.

Bottled: Clean golden hue with a small frothy head and okay lace. The aroma has notes of lots of aromatic, floral, and grassy hops with a honey and bready malt nose, some phenols. The taste starts sweet and fruity highlighted by biscuity and grainy character. Additionally there is a light hop spice notes that reminds me of a pinch of cardamon and pepper. A moderate alcoholic presence bites the side of palate and leads to some warming of the chest after awhile. Sticky feel is surprising for a "pilsner". The first bottle left me disappointed but the second the following night was much more well received.

Pale shade of yellow. Foam quickly breaks and settles, but nestles into a nice thick ring. Polished herbal hop and straw aromatics. Delightfully soft and floral. Soft, fairly creamy carbonation. Fresh herbal bitterness immediately latches onto the palate and unleashes a stiff bitterness. Alcohol reveals its strength, but doesn’t overwhelm. Delicate candy apple sweetness merges with a light edge of acidity which cuts the clingy hop oils. Only lightly minerally. Malts show no real sense of direction, as they’re quite crowded and confused, but the bitterness continually tightens its clasp and lends firmness. Much of the fresh bitterness loses itself in the tangy, biscuity Munich sweetness, while alcohol tingles the sides of the cheeks. Finishes spicily hoppy (Tettnanger?) and relatively brightly flavored, with notes of lemon cake and toasted hay. For a brewery that produces far more ales than lagers, they’ve gotta be quite pleased with this. A cleaner bitterness and a less-complicated grain bill is all this needs to become excellent.