Pride Of Cleveland (P.O.C.) Pilsener
Double Wing Brewing Co. in Madison, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.33
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into lager glass, no can dating. Pours lightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a small dense and rocky white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Touch of fruity/yeasty aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pils malts and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, wood, pepper, 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, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of pils malts and earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderately 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 and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Light lingering resins/rinds through the glass. No warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a delicious Czech pilsner. All around nice robustness and balance of pils malts and earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with moderately bitter/drying finish, not overly aggressive. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Great balance of clean pils malts and earthy noble hop flavors. No residual sweetness with crisp dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive style example.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Well I think the style is mixed up on this, I know it says pilsner on the label but from the start it has many of the attributes of an IPA, wew. Big pungent hop and cleaning fluid volatile aroma and the first taste is ruder than many IPA I’ve had. Yep, they must have put lots of hops in this stuff and I don’t think they are noble hops fer sure. Alky has got to be quite high on this. Long bitter piercing plastic finish. If you like big strong ipa beers, forget my numbers; I can care less for beers that are big bitter IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sample at the Big Tap In on 04/21/2012. This beer pours a clear yellow-gold color with a medium fizzy white head that evaporates quickly to an outer ring. Aroma of mild hops and malt. Light to medium body with flavors of slightly spiced hops, grainy malt and a touch of fruit. The finish is soapy and mildly bitter with a short hoppy aftertaste. Decent overall.