Penn Gold Lager

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Brewed in the USA... Pours gold in color with a small lasting white head and lots of carbonation. Aroma of grass, bread, malts and soap. Taste is of soap, malts, flowers and corn. Mouthfeel is medium in body, kind of smooth with a sweet malty finish. Not bad, but not sure about all the medals?

Soft golden pour with some haze. One finger frothy white head. The nose is bready, grassy hops, sweet, some corn. Flavor is bleh, grassy hop bite, corn, sweet malt. Palate is crisp with a slightly metallic hop bite.

On tap at Bar Ferdinand in Phila. Not much aroma. Taste was of mild hops and yeast. Slightly flowery but not much else. Meh, not terrible but I doubt I’d drink it again.

Bottle. Pours an orange amber body with an off white head. Sweet malty dingy malt, a bit vegetative with some corn sweetness. Eh not for me.

Skunk aroma. Hazy yellow, no head. Skunky plastic flavor with traces of lemon. A tiny bit of lemon zest. Bleh.

pours hazy golden with a quickly dissipating off-white seafoam head. sweet nose of caramel, malt, corn syrup, maple syrup. flavor is corny, malty-sweet. aftertaste is short and malty.

A fairly typical Euro lager taste to this one. Pretty full flavored for the style. OK, but nothing special.

(Bottle) Aroma rich, malty, complex, with a hint of skunkiness and a hint of alcohol. Outstanding example of this style. This really tastes like a German beer, even down to the details of the faint and not altogether unpleasant metallic character. However...tasting "German" and tasting "Good" are two different things. This beer has some objectionable qualities: a faint skunkiness, a bit too much alcohol in the aroma, and perhaps worst of all, an unpleasant funky sourness to the malt, characteristic of many macro brews (although the hops in this beer more than distinguish it from macros). Some good, some bad, perfectly drinkable, decent, but if I were the judge, not award-winning.