Penn Penndemonium

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of goryshkewych. Clear deep golden with a small off-white head. Sweet malty aroma - a little oxidized perhaps. Medium body, sweetish malty and again perhaps a little oxidized with overripe fruit. Carbonation is a little low. Sweet malty finish, no real bitterness. A little over the top but still a decent drink. 220909

weak, tastes german and malty, really dissapointing for such a cool label. Bottle from a tasting at the house of chris Montelius

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a very small sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a softly carbonated orange colored body and a fair lacing. . The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a mellow biting hoppy aftertaste with a soft bock like note to it. The mild flavor contained notes of malt floral hops and dash of caramel. A decent one that I would consider buying again.

A solid pour produces a two-finger thick, pale tan colored head in my 25cl tulip glass. The beer is a light amber color that shows a pretty copper color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of concentrated pale malt, pale toasted grain, a touch of toffee, a light herbal spiciness, a touch of grassiness and maybe even a hint of lemon zest. The nose is fairly mellow on this beer, it could certainly use a touch more expressiveness, but what is here is certainly enjoyable.

Fairly dry up front, but this does pick up some malt sweetness to it. The sweetness mixes with the hop notes and in the finish even takes on a touch of something like a herbal honey. This finishes with a touch of buttery malt flavor as well as a light bitterness that is noticeable but not biting enough to hold the sweet malt in check. This is not an overly sweet beer, in fact I was expecting it to be a bit sweeter than it is. The body has a richness and heft to it that sticks to the palate with a viscous coating quality, still this is not overly heavy as it is not really cloying. Despite being a bit more malt focused, this is actually fairly well balanced between malt and hop, especially when you take into account the herbal hop character. A nice toasty, pale grain character that contributes a touch of dried hay notes peeks through the malt sweetness from time to time.

Not bad, there seems to be a soft diacetyl influence at times that can make this a bit on the buttery side, but it is not overwhelming, even though I can be particularly sensitive to it at times.

Poured a golden hay color with a nice frothy head.Lots of malt tones.Malty with some nice carbonation.I would say this was a step above a lawnmower beer, more like a nice autmn watch the leaves turn color brew.

11/15/2007: Penn Penndemonium is transparent and dark gold with lively carbonation and a frothy thin white head. It has a malty and lightly buttery aroma. The sweet flavor has sugary malt and light caramel. There isn’t a lot, if any, bitterness. This beer is soft, mellow, and really drinkable. Overall it has a nice sweetness and is very enjoyable. I think that this is another slightly underrated beer.

22 fl. oz. bottle from mcbackus via trade in September 2006. Rating #93 for this beer.

Golden pour. Sweet aroma of apples and pears. Flavor was all fruit. Apples, bananas, pears and vanilla. Drinkable. Nothing outstanding.

Skunky, big skunk bomb. Rice and beans and meat taste with some more skunk.