Pours hazy yellow with a thick white head. Aroma of bright citrus, lime elements. Taste has light what notes, hints of bread yeast. Palate has yeast elements and citrus notes. Fantastic.

Hazy straw golden with a thin white head. Earthy, a bit of zest, biscuit malts, light earth. Medium to thin body. Finish is lightly dry and spicy. Nice.

12 oz bottle purchased as a single at Hyde Park Wine and Spirits in Cincinnati, Ohio. Best By 11/9/17. The pour is a chill haze yellow golden with small to no white head. The aroma is clove herbal yeast, floral and a hint of honey malt. The taste is honey malt, along with the herbal spice yeast. The palate is medium bodied with soft to low carbonation and a straw herbal finish. Got a little weird tasting as it warms. Just OK.

12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 4/28/2017. Pours slightly hazy pale straw color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of lemon, cracker, white bread, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt and earthy hop notes; with solid strength. A bit fruity/yeasty, but not overwhelming. Taste of lemon, cracker, white bread, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Good amount of herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, cracker, white bread, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance. A little lingering hop astringency, but not overwhelming. Moderate dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass. Nicely clean on lager flavors, with minimal yeast notes presence. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/sticky/grainy, and lightly resinous balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.7%. Overall this is a very good German pilsener style. All around good robustness and balance of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink; despite the fairly strong lingering bitterness. This was more bitter than I expected, but not overwhelming at all. A very enjoyable offering, and good style example.

Bottle from A Lazy Dog Slightly hazy deep straw that was quite clear until the last bits of the bottle muddied it up. Bubbly white head persists. Floral earthy spicy herbal hops on the nose with a solid bit of sweet bready pilsner malt underneath. The flavor is a solid mix of hop and malt with neither dominating. Sweet bread and earthy spicy herbal hop flavor with light to moderate bitterness. Its a tasty beer, but the body seems quite full for its 4.7% abv almost like its a little under attenuated.

Poured from bottle best by 1/28/17 light hazy straw with a thin white head. Aromas of lager yeast corn straw. Taste is spot on no flaws grain corn yeast.

12 oz. bottle, thanks to Willrunforbeer on this Trappist pilsner!! Best before on label of: 3/09/17. Slight hazy gold, plenty of carbonated bubbles. Aroma is pils malt, corn husk, lager yeast, straw.

All the correct flavors, lager yeast through out with a clean finish. Light body and crisp. No flaws or mistakes and drinks nicely. Exactly as it should be. Well made

Imported from my RateBeer account as Spencer Feierabendbier (by Spencer Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

13/IX/16 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from a trade @ home - BB: 3/IX/17 (2016-1012) A very big thanks to Alengrin for this trade!

Slightly hazy yellowish beer, small creamy irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, bit sweet, fruity touch, some grassy hops. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very fruity start, strawberry jam, bit sweet, pretty darn hoppy as well, bitter, grains, very malty. Aftertaste: soft fruity notes, little sweet, grassy and bitter finish. Decent beer, REALLY glad I got to try it. Thanks Wim!

When I explain to less beer-obsessed people than me that ’trappist’ has nothing to do with beer styles and try to demonstrate to them that any beer can be a trappist beer if brewed by the right people, I often use the hypothetical example of a pale lager (’pils’) made by trappist monks. Since this summer, this idea is no longer hypothetical, as the zealous monks at Spencer now present this trappist Pilsener, after being the first monks to brew a trappist stout and a trappist IPA. It has a moussy, lightly lacing, medium thick head consisting of minute bubbles but eventually dissolving into practically nothing; colour is a misty straw blonde with greenish hue, almost witbier-like due to the haziness. For the style, it breathes a fairly unusual but actually quite agreeable aroma of dry breakfast cereals, lots of sourdough in the most explicit sense but working well with a sweeter hint of white bread crust; otherwise I get impressions of leavened bread, old dried lemon peel, cheese crackers, field sorrel leaves, camomile tea, dried lemongrass, chalk, waffle dough, flour, green apple peel, courgette flesh. Clean but crisp, refreshing onset, some soft malt fruitiness but no true fruit esters, vaguely sweetish surrounded by ’sourdough’ sourishness and soft, chalky mineral accents, whilst retaining a (notably) softer than usual carbonation for this style. Mouthfeel is soft and lean, body is above average for the style, probably because of the yeast suspension, adding well-dosed breadiness to an already mildly bready malt backbone, with still the sharpish grainy edges you can expect from a Pilsener. Finish has continuing ’breadiness’ due to the yeast but in a pleasant, soft and ’fluffy’ way rather than becoming overly starch-like, but also adds a drying, resinous, leafy, very softly lemony, retronasally very floral hop bitterness bringing balance; minerally and chalky flavors linger in the end along with these hops. Trappist breweries enjoy high esteem among beer connoisseurs and this is, and I am not being chauvinistic here, the merit of the classic Belgian ones much more so than of any of the other ones; so if one of these new ones starts up brewing activities, they must feel a certain ’peer pressure’ to come up with beers worthy of the trappist standard. This makes it all the more remarkable that the monks at St. Joseph’s Abbey now came up with what is essentially a classic German Lager: if you go down that road, ignoring all the old dubbel, tripel and quadrupel beers normally associated with ’trappist’, then it better be a good one. Is this a good one? Well, yes, I think so: uncompromizing in terms of quality of ingredients as should be expected from a trappist brewery, it has a kind of ’purity’ in both the malts and the hops department which I can appreciate. It being unfiltered probably puts it closer to a Kellerbier than to actual classic Pilsener, but assures that more flavor and aroma is retained, and offers a bouquet which clearly has more to offer than what the average Pilsener (even in the classic German sense) smells like. It’s just a Pilsener perhaps, but it’s a good one in which I cannot find anything that bothers me, and it’s an atypical one which adds something to this 180-year old style, and not just because it was made by a trappist monastery. The heavily bready / biscuity notes in both nose and mouth also remind me of their IPA - so it seems these trappist monks are beginning to develop their own cachet, as is the case with the monks of (most of) the older trappist breweries like Westmalle or Rochefort. Very interesting beer, and it makes me wonder what other styles these monks will come up with from now on... (Edit: tasted twice, the second time at a beer festival as Spencer Premium Pilsener, which was merely the new name of this beer at the time.)