Warsteiner Premium Verum

Brewed by Warsteiner Brauerei
Style: Classic German Pilsener
Warstein, Germany

Clean and crisp in flavor. No head retention. Nice yellow color. Typical for this style. Pleasant to drink.

One of the best pilsners - and very identifiable. The bitterness is not always pleasant, however.

A little bland, with just a hint of bitterness in the aftertaste. Decent.

Pours pale yellow with a good sized head that leaves fairly quickly. Aroma is sweet grain with light mustiness. Very thin body, light carbonation. Mellow malts on the first taste and the finish is sour hoppy. While this is not my favorite style, this is kind of boring even for a pilsener. Easy to drink and was very unobtrusive with the soup I had it with.

bottle - Pours yellow with a thin, fading head. Light malt aroma. The flavor is fairly typical for the big brewery, pale European beers. They have gotten the hops balanced nicely and the lively mouthfeel is not unpleasant. The finish is crisp. It’s not bad, but nothing to get excited about. I’ll agree that their Dunkel is better.

12 oz brown bottle. Pop the lid and get a whiff of cabbage family cooked vegetables. After it ends up in the glass it is much more attractive, has a plastic or chemical sterile aroma. The look of this beer is rather different than others. At first I thought that it was full of fine bubbles that was not rising to the top but upon closer inspection I see these are some kind of particles in there floating around. This is interesting and hypnotizing, I hope I just don’t have a bad bottle. I looked in the bottom of the bottle, like a wheat beer, and there is no sludge on the bottom, go figure. Other than that the beer is pale yellow with a ring around the inside of the glass for a head. Very smooth initial flavors. It has the same kind of flavor that the aroma insists. It’s not plastic or chemical in a bad way, it seems very refined and controlled. There is a slight hop or malt bitterness that builds on the back of the throat. Enjoyable with just the right amount of bitter personality. The carbonation provides just the right amount of tingle on the back of your tongue. The bitterness that builds as you drink keeps trying to insult the back of my throat but really never quite gets there. Overall a well mannered refined and cultivated German beer taste. I’m sorry I waited so long to taste this.

A readily available, although somewhat average, German Pilsner. I prefer a little more body, but this is a refreshing light beer that undoubtably will have a following somewhere. Not bad, but there are better beers from Germany.

Not my first choice for a Pilsner by any means, especially from Deutschland. Just doesn't have any outstanding characteristics, even compared to other mass-market Pilsners. Quite pale yellow color. Some hop flavors towards the end saves this beer from utter suckdom, but just barely.