William Brennans Golden Pils

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Pilsener
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

12oz bottle. Filtered yellowish copper color with a nice white head that settles out pretty fast. Lots of CO2 bubbles. Crisp sweet aroma. Somewhere between light and medium bodied, with a solid bitter edge. Not particularly as clean as you might like it to be, with some corny sweetness in the finish. Overall though, this is still a pretty good product.

Thanks to Skyview for sharing this tasty pils. Gold body with faint head. Corn and faint hops on the aroma. Slightly bitter taste with more corn, malt and hops.

Aroma of malty grain, yeasty dough, and slight hop bitterness. Pours a large, white, frothy head that is mostly lasting. The body is slightly hazy with a few medium sized particles floating around. The hue of the beer is orange and gold. The initial flavor is sweet and finishes with mild hop bitterness that is average in duration. The body is light to medium with lively carbonation. Could have benefited from a fuller body. Not a bad beer but nothing special either.

Golden color with a moderate off white head. Sweet malt and light band-aid aroma. thick, yet spritzy in feel. Maybe my taste buds are off today, but I had a bottle of this a few days ago and thought higher of it. Lacks a malt finish that I really enjoy in this style. This one seems a bit grainy. I have another bottle and will rerate in a few days if my impressions are based on a bad taste bud day.

This is a nice pils. Gold color and moderate hop aroma, with malt and hop flavor. Mild bitterness.

From a 12 oz. twisted cap Capital long neck brown bottle with no freshness date, served in a Capital pilsener glass. Poured a clear golden with a good foamy white head that slowly reduced to a thin sudsy lacing, minimal amount of ringed sticking. Aromas of dry crackers, floral and a bit grassy with touches of spice. Good carbonation and a crisp, dry velvety smooth light bodied mouthfeel. Good pilsener taste, dry cracker malts, a light fruitiness, earthy, grassy and spicy hops, and a dry earthy, slighty sweet malty finish. I like pilseners to begin with, plus I admit, I have a high opinion of Capital’s German style beers, and I found this to be quite enjoyable, dry, tasty and balanced.

Thanks to Skyview for getting this for the group. I finally get my hands on one! Gold color with no head. Light aroma of corn and Noble hop. Taste is slightly bitter. Dusty earth finish.

2006 bottle from StewardofGondor, drunk on 4/18/06
Brimming over the top of the glass with rocky white head that is both well-retained and lace-forming. A highly clear, baked-straw golden body shows a flurry of medium-small sized bubbles.
Rather muted straw and grassy hops, not overly crisp or aromatic, seem to hover above the liquid. Little more than fluffed grain in a warehouse, as far as malt goes. I first pass it off as the large head impairing the the aroma, but after swirling the glass some and allowing it to breath further, the most I get is a bit of light honey and sourdough or cedary-oily notes. A bit more sweaty hay emerges, as well, but it’s a far cry from crisp or lively on the nose.
Flavor is rather heavy in water to malt ratio. Not loose/thin in texture, but just lean on malt. Dry cereal and some moderately crisp straw show redeeming qualities, as the palate adjusts to the wetness. Moderate carbonation and certainly drinkable, but there’s a bit too much dough on end and I can’t shake the initial cidar-cedar note. Ultimately too round for a pils and especially for a Bohemian Pils (which this is not). Dry finish at least, with no alcohol.