Schwelmer Pils

Brewed by Brauerei Schwelm
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Schwelm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bottle. Pours hazy dark golden/yellow. Earthy hops, biscuity malt. Low carbo, slightly slick. Taste is very good. Good Pils.

12oz Bottle purchased from Hi-Times. Pours a coppered gold, with a light haze and a frothy white head. Cracker-like pilsener malt character, heading towards oldness. Tinted with slightly metallic bitter hops. Flavor is wet, rusty, and and oxidized. Sloppy. Grains are messy. This just isn’t snappy or desirable. The hops are dusty, the beer oxidized. Ugh.

Bottle. Pours a golden body with a white head. Sweet malty body with a thin earthiness. Light citrus accents and some mild lemon acidicty. Grain and a light earthiness. Kevin this ratings for you!

A nice looking golden brew with a thin white head, dull scent, and bitter taste, lacking all crispness and depth, and a sour aftertaste. Very disappointing for the genre.

Thin head of fine bubbles. Good carbonation. Light bready malts, lemon grass and some hops. Clor is a clear golden orange. Flavor is light bready malts again with some sweetness and grainy notes. Even though it is light on flavor, I am still enjoying this brew. Not as dry and as sharp as I would have expected. Finishes smooth and a bit on the creamy side. A decent and enjoyable pilsner. Better than expected.

Clear blond coloured beer with some very light carbonation and an average white head. Fresh hoppy grassy light sweet aroma. Medium palate, light sweet touched. Finish is light bitter with some sweet hoppy hints. Longer dry finish. Medium pilsener.

Pours a slightly hazed golden into the glass, with a thin white ring that leaves tiny soap lace that dissipates quickly. Lots of country silage, sour grains and some grass to the nose. Some tannic grape notes, along with grains and hay flavors intermix with some melon and citrus in the mid-palate. A straw and earthen-hopped finish lingers slightly on the back-palate. A decent German Pils, and complex enough with a decent body and medium mouthfeel. Nice countryside effervescence, with lightly toying carbonation levels... just this side of a "flat" seltzer, yet creamy somehow. Definitely improves at it warms, opening up stronger farming silage and grain/hay notes. Certainly a nice take on one of my "not-so-favorite" genres.

Comes in a fancy swing top bottle which I suspect is the main reason it is exported to Australia but it turns out to be quite an individualistic German pilsner. Pours a straw yellow colour with an ample white head. Nose of dry grassy hops and pepper. Taste of bitter grainy malt with further grassy hops. Slight citrus tinge in there as well. Dry bitter hoppy finish that lingers in the mouth. Medium bodied. Gets smoother and more integrated further down the bottle.