Penn Pilsner

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

Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a tiny head that vanishes quickly. Aroma is of barley malts. Taste is malty with hints of grain,barley and yeast. Average for a pilsner. Will never drink this again though.

not a bad "pilsner". not much aroma except a small bit of mint? has a nice burnt gold color,clear and well carbonated. not much head either for a pilsner.( I used a really tall pilsner glass and could barely coax out a weak 16th of an inch head.) could work on the grain bill. not enough balance in malt to hop flavor i.e. too bitter. almost has a rolling rock thing going on in the after taste?I drank a six pack relitivly east though!

After going through a six pack of this the other night with a few friends I realize how good this beer is. Nice sweet caramel malt taste with just a hint of hoppiness in the aftertaste. Not much, but just enough to balance it out. This is an outstanding Vienna. Better than usual macros. Golden colored with a 3 finger head. Not much aroma or taste- slightly sweet with a hoppy aftertaste but nothing too strong. Original rating: Aroma 6 Appearance 3 Flavor 6 Palate 3 Overall 6

Draught: This one pours a slightly dark, mostly clear golden color. Mine had very little head and only a little bit of lacing. The aroma was a bit lighter. There were some notes of sweetness, otherwise fairly non-descript. The taste was OK. A decent beer, but not a true pilsner. Some malts, a hair bitter. Not a bad session beer, but nothing special.

This pilsner poured a dark cloudy yellow colour with not much of a head even after a vigourous pour. To the nose...slight paint thinner aroma. If you got through that, vinegar, dough and a very small scent of spice. First taste was very mettalic flavoured but after that the malts came through. Slightly bitter to the tongue, a little thick feeling aswell. The palate was hoppy and a little bitter to the end.

There is something fundamentally wrong with this pilsner if that is what the brewery wanted it to be. It is thin and near amber in color. Taste was reminiscent of burnt caramel, and not in a good way with unflattering bitterness. If it is really a Vienna then label it as such.

This is a conundrum. I rated it and hated it as a pilsner, but upon seeing the style as vienna, I want to be a bit more lenient and try to appreciate it as that. My original rating stands. They really need to re-name this one.

"Borrowed" a bottle of this beer from my father... It has a medium sized quickly descending head. It has a slightly cloudy amber colour and a rather sweet smell. It also tastes quite sweet with perhpas a hint of honey. Not really a great beer, but it is certainly interesting enough.