South Shore Honey Pils

Brewed by South Shore Brewery/Wilmarths Deepwater Grille
Style: Pilsener
Ashland, Wisconsin USA

Pours a slightly cloudy golden color with large lingering head. Aromas of honey and brown sugar with a light grain. Flavor follows aroma, but is more subdued with an over carbonation.

Poured a medium and hazy golden color with a very large sized (4.5 finger) with head. Aromas of soapy honey. Tastes of honey with very light grain. Light honey sweetness. Lively, highly carbonated and thin body that leaves with a crisp finish.

pours cloudy yellow. i detected no aroma. not much flavor. no hops, no honey. inoffensive, but is that what i look for in a beer?

Bottle. Poured a cloudyyellow. If someone asked me what style it was just by looking at it I would have thought a hefe. Has a strange sour smell to it. I do not get any honey from it at all. Nothing I will be looking for in the northwoods again.

Pils? I think not. Shouldn’t it have at least one characteristic of the style? It had an aroma of dried out honeycombs, a nasty sweetness. The flavor was disagreeable, tart and metallic. No hop aroma, no hop bitterness... NO PILSENER!

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Another pilsener that tastes nothing like a pilsener...no hops, overly carbonated, too fruity sweet, a little strange sourness that I can’t figure out at all, and no honey flavor at all that I can make out. Other than that, no problem.

An ordinary lager that is a bit on the sweet side; I assume due to the honey. Very light hop aroma. Yellow, and completely lacking carbonation. Decent body, and while there is nothing wrong with it; there is not much to enjoy. Boring.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with hopdog, thanks Steve!) A loud pop when I removed the cap, 2 1/2 inches of off-white foam when I (carefully) poured the beer, and a significant amount of quickly-rising carbonation bubbles in the glass, yup, this beer is overcarbonated. The aroma is very soapy, fairly fruity, and a bit spicy like hot peppers. But it doesn’t smell sour, so my initially scant optimism has increased. The flavor is sweet, very fruity and a bit soapy. The honey could conceivably add to the sweetness, but it doesn’t taste like honey. And in some sense, it has a Belgian yeast characteristic, but what I definitely don’t get is the typical pilsener or lager graininess, or much of a hops presence here. In fact, this tastes nothing like a pilsener. Obviously, at least to me, the brewery had some "issues" with this batch. Medium bodied, with a long-lasting sweetness that gets old quickly. Medium golden in color, and fairly cloudy in appearance. That off-white head has never settled to less than a full, thin layer, and has left a considerable amount of foam on the glass. I probably wouldn’t like a honey pils anyway, but this soapy rendition hasn’t been enjoyable at all.