Much better on tap, where barley sweetness and fruity malt residue shine through. In the bottle, murky grains and musty malts are not fully integrated, becoming tinny lightweight dreck.

Considering Asian auspices, extremely flavorful and surprisingly fruity. Goes down smooth with softly carbonated sweet water flow. Roasted barleymalts engage orange-red fruiting to relaxing rice finish. Serve with Chinese food (if you could still find it).

Distinct musk-like hop-grained aromatics and crisp-watered bread-like yeast mouthfeel could be mistaken for Heineken (Holland’s better brand) in a heartbeat. But heavy carbolic fizz and soapy finish become obtrusive obstacles, narrowing its appeal. Canned version gets metallic.

Soured butter malt slickness dulls thin barley strand and bland soapy finish. Closer to dank grainy Eastern Euro than crisp rice-caked Asian.

Effective traditional Euro pils retains economical orange peel tang, floral-dried wheat husk, and grassy leathering. Light hop spicing trails seltzer-watered fizz.

Soapy white-headed sunny-yellowed German-styled dry pils plies sour fruited facade to doughy corn-husked tobacco astringency. At blanched finish, toasted barley-oats and biscuit-y wheat fortify faded grapefruit-lemon pang.

Though first bottle consumed was imported by estimable Killian Company, rich copper-hued biscuit-y wheat German brew maintained distinction. Zesty yellow fruiting, animated spice-hopped sop, and sweet barley roast lingered to lemony mineral-grained finish. Original Bavarian version brought richer barley malting to spicier lemon bittering.

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.

Steadfast sugar malt drift harbors cotton-candied jellybean nicety for green-canned moderate-bodied pils. But minimal grain backbone slides precociously.

Palest yellow-bellied Bahamian with lemony grapefruit aroma lines limed pineapple tang across balmy corn-sugared toasted barley restraint to zippy agave quip. Plain, watery summer treat reasonably steadfast for such a light-bodied beer.

Fizzy-watered sweet-scented golden pilsner maintains grain-hopped lemon-dropped simplicity. More class and character than mediocre competition. Probably not on market as of 2006.

Robust soft-watered Czech-styled Aussie dry body may be richer than respected Brooklyn Pilsner and compares most favorably to first-rate Eastern Euro competition. Opulent earthen grained bittering, doughy glutinous malt sweetness, corn-husked straw grass reminder, and sneaky applejack-grapefruit snip deep-six any negative solvent-like oxidation. Wavered citric-floral Saaz hopped sharpness, white peppered spicing, and green tea spree randomly tingle tongue.