t IJ Plzen

Brewed by Brouwerij ’t IJ
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bottle from Oak Tree. Pours a pale godlen body with a thin white lacing. Flemish cherry nose with belgian spices. Light dry acidic woodiness. Decent.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow to orange with a huge white head. Earthy and spiced yeasty phenolic aroma. Brett-ish and dry flavoured with a mild citric note, dry though and light wheat-like with a nice hoppy note. Dry and yeasty phenolic finish.

Bottle: Poured a hazy orange with a large bubble filled white to slight off white head. Aroma is sour fruit and grass. Taste is citrus fruit with a floral hint. Finish is bitter.

A hazy yellow colored beer, with great foamy white head. The aroma of grassy malt, with some bitter hops and fruits. The taste of some bitter hops, with malt. There are fresh fruits like citrus, lemon and some flavors of flowers. The aftertaste is long bitter.

(Bottle). Sweet ripe fruit aroma. Light golden body, large fluffy white head. Flavor is sweet and fruity, then transitions to yeasty with some bitterness. Quite different from the usual Bohemian pilsener, but tasty and pleasant.

Bottle. Golden beer with a very strong head. The aroma is quite fruity and dry, and the flavour is so very dry and slightly face pullingly sour. Overall a disappointing and quite undrinkable beer at times, but you get use to it.

Bottle. Hazy gold with a large head. Aromas are weetabix malts with citrus and yeast. Dry and hoppy. Flavours are yeasty and dry with bitter hops. Some toffee malts but with some soapy dishwater notes. Earthy hops on the finish.

Bottle from Olivers, Albany NY. Hazy straw blonde, white head. Nose is rather muted light nuttiness, buttery malt, a bit of herbal hoppiness, some citrusy almost tang-like fruit. Flavor is herbal, light malt, slight caramel. Sweet finish with some more traditional pils malt characteristics