St. Sylvestre Du Moulin Pilsner

Brewed by St. Sylvestre
Style: Pilsener
St. Sylvestre-Cappel, France

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity grainy aroma. Fruity malty grainy flavor with some grassy hints. Has a fruity malty grainy finish.

A very pale straw pils with a thick lacing white head. Anemic. Aroma is herbal and citrusy. In mouth, crisp and lightly sweet herbal malt, with a rather powdery light body. Overall, boring offering.

Pours a clear pale gold color with a medium, white, fizzy head that diminishes to almost nothing. The aroma has a dominance of pilsner malts with mild hops and hay. In the mouth the beer feels cheap, a good measure of pilsner malt, hay and some hops but not enough. The body is light to medium with a creamy texture and lively carbonation. Feels like lots of other cheap lagers that pretend to be pilsners, boring.

In short: Lame Macro-ish pilsner lacking on the hops
How: Can, 500ml, relatively fresh (I think)
The look: Clear yellow body with a long-lasting small white head.
In long: Faint skunk on the nose (and that’s coming from a can). Impassive pale malts with round/smooth lager yeast provide an ok body but not much in the way of flavours. Light hint of vanilla. Main problem is with the hops. The little that is there feels like those almost-synthetic hops approximation that macros use. This is a little above typical Macro beer but really not by much. Weird, the French butchering the German pride that is the Pilsner. Like if they still hold a grunge about something…

Can Mondial. Corn and malt aroma, yellow, very small white head. Fair malt taste, some bitterness, sweet grainy, ordinary.

Can: Poured a bright golden color lager with a nice pure white bubbly head with minimum retention. Aroma of grainy malt with some light skunky notes and maybe even buttery malt notes. Taste is also dominated by skunky notes with some grainy malt. Body is about average with some average carbonation. Definitely something I won’t seek out again.

On can... Aroma:light malt,light citrus aroma... Appearance:yellow fizzy beer... Flavor:light malt flavor,light acrid flavor....

Sampled at the Mondial, coming from a 500ml can, very pale yellow color, with an off-with head, fresh wet hay nose, with a faint floral hop, hint of vanilla, with a sweet pale malt aroma follows through on a light-bodied palate, with a crisp sweet pale malt, with a yeasty bubblegum character, with a flowery hop, with a staw accent, leading towards a sweet maltiness, faint floral bitterness finish.