Warsteiner Premium Verum

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

A sweet smelling goldon pilsner. It has a nice bit of hop bite to it, as well, but it's not very complex or interesting. Still, it's refreshing and solid.

Definitely not one of my favourite German pilsners. Dry and skunky flavour.

Supposedly one of the top selling beers in Germany, which doesn’t say much about the beer itself except it seems just another part of a clever marketing campaign. Beer writer James D. Robertson wrote twenty years ago of ’a very fine Pilsener’ with ’complex malt and hop aroma, and flavour’, so I was expecting a little more than was served up. Maybe big business has reeled its ugly head! Clear pale gold with very fine, light carbonation failing to keep its initially fluffy white head on for longer than the first sip. Overly generous unfermented and gritty malt, and haystack chaff aroma (a little like my breakfast cereal). The aroma wasn’t unclean, but more reminiscent of barnyard musty. Similar to the aroma in the mouth which gave the feeling of a non-alcoholic ’Near beer’ with its gluggy, gritty and lightly toasted malt flavour and bready yeast feel. It had a little balance in the back with some grassy and slightly sour hops. Finish is malty and sour with a long lingering effect like spent grains. It was generous in flavour, which I suppose was it failing point as it came across as clumsy and didn’t get any better towards the end of the glass. Disappointing!!! (33cL bottle, BBE 08/05)

Bottle. Clear yellow colour with small white mostly diminishing head. malty aroma with hints of grain and straw. watery palate

From the bottle. Quite drinkable, plenty of malt and bitterness drawing through. Something I definitely do not mind drinking if it’s there.

Wartseiner Premium Verum has a no hop aroma and some malt. The color is a light golden with a quickly diminishing white head. There is some bitterness and malt flavor.

From a bottle poured a clear golden color with a good amount of head. Not mouch flavor and a quick finish.

Colour gold head good,carb perfect,nice freshalmond like smell,earthy one that appeals to me.Tastes lovely hoppy and good bitter and dry finish,very refreshing drink.