Crisply appealing raw-grained straw-hazed light body. Carbolic lemon-limed Seltzer fizzing affects mild grassy-hopped herbal-spiced citric bittering. Subtle crystal malt creaminess contrasts scant wheat-husked barnyard-hay leathering to tidily astringent finish.
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(MUM) OLD HARBOUR SELECT PILSNER
SHMALTZ CONEY ISLAND MERMAID PILSNER
Originally known as The Chosen Spot, murky dry-hopped rye-malted pilsner places mild Scotch wisp above sour-fruited tartness. Toasted cereal-grained oats-dried caramelizing reinforces rotted orange-apple pungency, carbolic lemon spritz and grassy horsehide leathering. Ample alcohol astringency wearily consumes cracker-salted citric finish of medium-bodied triviality.
SCHONRAMER PILS
Boggling diacetyl buttering, phenolic hop fizz and gnarly vegetal astringency plague musty sour-malted straw-hued moderate body. After modest barley-rice sweetness counters mild lemon bittering and grassy-hopped repose, coarsened corn-oiled finish impedes progress. Withered white bread spine collapses and wavered herbal nuances barely register.
SAMUEL ADAMS NOBLE PILS
OSKAR BLUES MAMA’S LITTLE YELLA PILS
Crisply carbolic straw-hued Czech pilsner needs deeper yellow-fruited luster and more incisive lemony lime tartness to overcome bleak corn malting. Understated herbal-floral influence, lackadaisical grapefruit bittering, and barren honeysuckle whim weaken over time. Kolsch-like ale yeast brings latent green grape esters and champagne sparkle.
CHUCKANUT PILS
Adequate yellow-fruited, corn-malted, cereal-grained pilsner brings herbal-tinged lemon spoilage to the fore. But German-styled moderation’s murky orange-grapefruit meander needs better thrust.
(ANHEUSER-BUSCH) BUD LITE GOLDEN WHEAT
Boringly astringent and completely insignificant Bud Lite derivative flattens out metallic phenol hop coarseness with meager orange-peeled corainder wisp to frail white bread staleness. Lacking sufficient salty-grained bitterness, and worse, efficient counteractive malt sweetness, this fizzy orange seltzer approximation goes nowhere fast.
LOWENBRAU PILSNER
KELSO PILSNER
Dank-grained medium-bodied Czech pils with lemony hop fizz and floral-spiced Orange Blossom honey drift falls way short. Vacant crystal malt sweetness and inferior vegetal spill (asparagus-maize-carrot) sink it further into stylistic oblivion.
BROWN’S TOMHANNOCK PILSNER
MICHELOB ULTRA TUSCAN ORANGE GRAPEFRUIT PILSNER
Thin natural flavored malt beverage spritzer introduced ’08 comes in clear bottle. Though a tad arid and impossibly dry-bodied, its tart sun-kissed grapefruit-tangerine sweetness stays on the nose, informing washed-out Seltzer-fizzed candied citrus theme. Orange Krush soda with vanilla ice cream’s a better bet.