Penn Kaiser Pils

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

when i said i loved hops the bartender poured me this. i was thinking more of an ipa. this reminded me of bitburger pils.

Poured a clear golden color with a large white head. Hoppy aroma with some malt and sulfur underneath. Very hoppy flavor with a long bitter finish. Light body. Cereal grain notes.

sampled this at a beerfest, decent but not the best. It was my first sampling of Pennslyvania brewing Co.

Draught at Pete’s Waterfront AH. Gold colored with a foamy, even spit-like head. Floral hop and sweet cereal aromas. Flavor of honeyed malts, floral, grassy and light citrus hops, with a tinge of butter. Light to medium bodied but seemed to water out after a while. A non-offensive and drinkable pils, but nothing really notable here.

Light golden color with a small head. Aroma is sweeter and malty with some summer fruits detectable. Flavor is sweet and lightly malted, but a strange fruit/adjunct flavor is very pervasive. Not well hopped for a pils. Could have been better.

On tap at D’s in Swissvale’s Regent Square. $4.50 for a pint. Ubiquitous pale yellow american lager color with a big white foamy head. Head fades after a few minutes. Smells just like good ol beer, yeasty and a bit permufy or sweet. The flavor of this is mild and well behaved. No surprizes here and I’m glad. Enjoyable and easy going. Low medium tingly carbonation, but was expecting more. Definately has that back of throat pils personality that grows. This beer is friendly and enjoyable. Clean and zesty. Perhaps a good pale yellow session brew. Very glad to have had the chance to taste this rare beer. IPA and impy stout lovers will like that medium pilsner bitter bite that hangs for a few moments after the finsh.

On tap, at brewery, 3/11/07. Pours a slightly hazy very light yellow gold body under a very creamy and foamy off-white head that showed excellent retention. Aroma is light bready pils malt and some nice german hops, pretty clean. Nice fairly aggressive bitterness over the soft doughy malt. Finishes with moderate bitterness and a little bit of DMS. Mouthfeel is light bodied and crisp as expected with a watery body and a long lingering finish. Overall, a little watery maybe, and the DMS on the finish was a slight turn-off but at least it was pretty minimal.

After a trip to Pittsburgh, I’m convinced that Penn is one of the premiere lager breweries in the US. Dry and crackery, citrus zing, esteric, sturdy dry malt backbone, a formidable lawnmower beer. Sturdy bittering. can’t beat this in the Penn biergarten on a sunny August afternoon.