I'm skeptical of beer with vanilla in it. But it came with the pilsner of the same brewery, so I thought I'd try it out.
Pours a foggy, opaque brown with a medium tan head that's pretty good for a porter. The last of the pour is darker than the first, telling me that either the java or the vanilla settles, maybe both.
Vanilla. It's not too crazy, but it's the most prominent smell.
Ugh. Way too much vanilla with a slight coffee taste underneath. Not roasted, and slightly grainy like a porter should be. I can't get past the vanilla. It's just flat out too much. Tastes like a cream soda, with a slightly fizzy carbonation and a milky feel like a milk stout. Odd combination of smooth and crisp, but washing out all of it is the vanilla.
Pouring this one out.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Atwater Brewery's Atwater Pilsner
As I've mentioned before, Pilsner is easily one of my most favorite styles. And although I prefer the Czech variant, German pilsners are very good too. But a beer from Detroit?
Pours a deep yellow to orange with a huge light tan head for a pils. Good carbonation means that the head stays for quite a while. Based on color and head retention, this one is shaping up to be very close to Scrimshaw Pilsner, which is a good thing.
Like a German pils should, it smells more malty and less skunky than a Czech. Solid light bread is secondary to to the pils funk that is as much bitterness as the skunk's ass smell that a pilsner must have. Basically more subdued than an in-your-face Czech, but that's appropriate for the style.
Reminds me just a tad of some of the Mexican Macro lagers, mostly Carta Blanca. The body is heavier, and this has more of the pils flavor, but its bitterness tastes a bit like wet cardboard. That's mostly as it warms though, so drink this one cold when it's more like Scrimshaw and less like sucking on a box. When cold it's a good beer, and is right in line with what a German pils should be like, but warmer it loses its character and is just indistinctly bitter.
Pours a deep yellow to orange with a huge light tan head for a pils. Good carbonation means that the head stays for quite a while. Based on color and head retention, this one is shaping up to be very close to Scrimshaw Pilsner, which is a good thing.
Like a German pils should, it smells more malty and less skunky than a Czech. Solid light bread is secondary to to the pils funk that is as much bitterness as the skunk's ass smell that a pilsner must have. Basically more subdued than an in-your-face Czech, but that's appropriate for the style.
Reminds me just a tad of some of the Mexican Macro lagers, mostly Carta Blanca. The body is heavier, and this has more of the pils flavor, but its bitterness tastes a bit like wet cardboard. That's mostly as it warms though, so drink this one cold when it's more like Scrimshaw and less like sucking on a box. When cold it's a good beer, and is right in line with what a German pils should be like, but warmer it loses its character and is just indistinctly bitter.
Atwater Brewery's Atwater Pilsner
As I've mentioned before, Pilsner is easily one of my most favorite styles. And although I prefer the Czech variant, German pilsners are very good too. But a beer from Detroit?
Pours a deep yellow to orange with a huge light tan head for a pils. Good carbonation means that the head stays for quite a while. Based on color and head retention, this one is shaping up to be very close to Scrimshaw Pilsner, which is a good thing.
Like a German pils should, it smells more malty and less skunky than a Czech. Solid light bread is secondary to to the pils funk that is as much bitterness as the skunk's ass smell that a pilsner must have. Basically more subdued than an in-your-face Czech, but that's appropriate for the style.
Reminds me just a tad of some of the Mexican Macro lagers, mostly Carta Blanca. The body is heavier, and this has more of the pils flavor, but its bitterness tastes a bit like wet cardboard. That's mostly as it warms though, so drink this one cold when it's more like Scrimshaw and less like sucking on a box.
Pours a deep yellow to orange with a huge light tan head for a pils. Good carbonation means that the head stays for quite a while. Based on color and head retention, this one is shaping up to be very close to Scrimshaw Pilsner, which is a good thing.
Like a German pils should, it smells more malty and less skunky than a Czech. Solid light bread is secondary to to the pils funk that is as much bitterness as the skunk's ass smell that a pilsner must have. Basically more subdued than an in-your-face Czech, but that's appropriate for the style.
Reminds me just a tad of some of the Mexican Macro lagers, mostly Carta Blanca. The body is heavier, and this has more of the pils flavor, but its bitterness tastes a bit like wet cardboard. That's mostly as it warms though, so drink this one cold when it's more like Scrimshaw and less like sucking on a box.
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