Schloss Eggenberg Hopfenkönig

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Pilsener
Vorchdorf, Austria

Bottle courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a light clear gold with an average size diminishing white head. Aroma is somewhat sugary sweet and grainy with a hint of hops -- thankfully it doesn’t seem to be skunky but I still don’t care much for it. Mild flavour, also sugary sweet with grain, hops, some cloying honey and a bitter finish. Light bodied. I didn’t care for this at all, quite disappointing.

Grassy nose, some hops, pale yellow, small white head. Malt flavour has a mineralness to it, slight hops, light bodied, nicely bitter. Average, I hoped for better from this Brewery.

Bottle. Hmm. Does not set itself apart in any way. Lively. Just tastes like somebody poured St. Pauli Girl and Mickey’s together in the same bottle. A teeny tiny notch above generic. Kinda bloaty.

Bottle (330ml - green). Bright clear gold, fairly bubbly, with a smallish quick-diminishing head. Grainy, somewhat skunky hop aroma,a little sweet. Taste is light, again the skunky/funky hops providing the bitterness that keeps the sweet grain/honey malt from dominating - it finishes pretty bitter, there’s a lot of hop character here. Average body, nice astringency and decent carbonation, longish finish - this would be excellent fresh, just the damned green bottle yields the usual skunk character - part marks for what I imagine it would be like, if that makes sense.

Nice and sparkling beer. Bought in Austria in summer in a supermarket.

Bottled. Very bubbly with medium off-white head. Thin smell that wasn’t very appealing. Malt taste with hints of lemon and grass. Satisfying but thin in the mouth, but got Much worse as the beer warmed up. Gave a very alcoholic aftertaste at times. Would drink it again if there wasn’t much else, but it would have to be chilled.

Canned 0,33L. Light and compact foam, short persistence. Shining yellow color, limpid and lightly bubbly. Simple and ordinary scent: notes of malt, cereals, fresh grass and hop. Pleasantly bitterish and coolness scent with grain and hoppy notes. Modest alcohol. Medium/short duration.

Draught at the Tap House in Norfolk, Va. Pours clear light golden into the glass, with a very small head and no significant retention nor lacing. The nose is of wet tobacco and mash. Flavors of honey, subtle tobacco hints, mash and sours dominate the very small, lightly bitter finish. This has a medium-light mouthfeel, quite refreshing for the summer dog days. Overall, it’s not truly indicative of a pils (to me, of course), but it does seem somewhat complex for its light body, and does offer a decent brew.