22 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 1/26/2018. Pours crystal clear pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Bit of skunky aromas initially, but dissipated as it sat in the glass. Nice and pleasant aromas with pale malts and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Very clean on lager flavors, with minimal fruity notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very good German pilsener. All around nice robustness and balance of robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the moderately bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and never watery for the ABV. Nicely rich and clean pils malt flavors, with nice earthy hop presence/balance. A very enjoyable offering and spot on style example. Would have preferred trying it in cans, but could not find any. I got the bottle knowing the skunk would be there, and it turned out just fine.

Bottle at Tania’s parents’. Pours clear golden with white head. Aroma of grass, hay, vegetables. Tastes slightly bitter with some sweetness. Thin bodied, watery finish.

Bottle from the Brussels, Beer Cafe, Gurney Paragon, Penang, Malaysia. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is dry cardboard malt, light hop. The flavour is moderate to light bitter with a light mineral aspirin malt, woody light floral hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Easy drinking and fine on a hot day but with little defining flavours.