Speakerswagon Pilsner
Haymarket Pub & Brewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.72
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Stand on the wagon and speak up! Demand delicious, fresh, hand-crafted pilsner brewed with imported pilsner malt, loads of Saaz hops and authentic lager yeast! Crisp and clean and hoppy. Fight for your right!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Haymarket - Chicago, pours a clear golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma is full of crunchy grassy hops, some vegetal notes and crisp crackery malt. Flavour is crisp, with grassy hops, vegetal notes, and crisp crackery malt. Herbaceous and dry finish. Pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Sep 2023
at 04:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce can into lager glass, canned on 3/12/2019. Pours fairly crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, peppercorn, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of pale malts and citrus/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, peppercorn, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, herbal, woody, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, peppercorn, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of pale malts and citrus/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Very clean on lager flavors, with minimal fruity/yeasty notes present. Moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an awesome German pilsner. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of pale malts and citrus/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and fairly crisp/clean/refreshing to drink, with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish, not overly aggressive. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Perfectly balanced clean pils malts and earthy noble hop showcase. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp resin dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and impressive spot on style example.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Apr 2019
at 21:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Haymarket Chicago. Clear gold colour lasting white head. Distinctive German hop aroma and flavour. Darn it. That's a fine pilsner. A little bready yeast aroma. Excellent hop and just the right balance. Superb.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2018
at 18:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Keg at the brewpub. Pours clear pale yellow with a creamy white head. The nose has floral hops, biscuits, hay. Light sweet flavour with nice grassy bitterness, crispy biscuits, more hay. Light bodied with average carbonation. Crisp and bitter on the finish, more bitter grass, pale biscuits. Great lager.
Tried
on 14 May 2016
at 14:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
At the brewery, December 2015. Gold color. Thin head. Surprisingly good brewpub pils. Crisp and dry, Saaz stand out for me, and I might have called this a Czech pils based on all the hops. A little sweetness at the end, which I did not like. Overall it is good.
Tried
on 10 Jan 2016
at 13:36