6.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Hazy golden yellow colour with medium white head.Aroma of grass and hops more bitter then South German pilsner and less sweets interesting anyway good bitterness to the finish and mild note of spices to.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Beyond Beer, Hamburg. Aroma is grassy hop, grainy malt, some floral notes, straw. Flavour is rather bitter with a dry end. Body is medium. Good Pils, though the bitterness ought to have been toned down a bit.

5

Eindimensional, einfach nur bitter. Ablaufdatum 6/21, sollte ja aber nicht grad kippen. Schaumte auch extrem.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Flasche 0,33l: Helles Gold, dezente Trübung, mäßig stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; frische + fruchtige Nase, dezente fruchtige Süße, eher trocken, Hopfenaromen, trockene Zitrusnoten, kräutrig/florale Noten, Malz, kräftig Getreide, etwas Karamell, malzig-trockene Bitterkeit; dezent würziger + eher trockener Körper, Hopfenaromen, trockene Zitrusnoten, Zitronenabrieb, leichte fruchtige Säure, kräutrig/floral, Malz, Getreide, cremig, deutliche Kohlensäure, leichte Hefenoten; trocken-malziger Nachgang

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Leicht eingetrübte goldene Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Hopfiger, getreidiger Geruch. Geschmacklich grasig hopfig, getreidig, schwach fruchtig. Leicht süß mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, leichter Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Northern German style Pilsener as interpreted by this fascinating young brewery in Hamburg which seeks not only to revive German traditions, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to bring American style craft beers to northern Germany. After two German-inspired new Pilseners from Belgium (Senne's Zenne Pils and Nest's Troef), I thought it would be interesting to compare with an actual German one, also of young age (this one having been introduced only in 2014 as one of the first Buddelship brews). Inches thick, very rocky and massive, irregularly but tightly lacing, eggshell-white head towering over a lightly hazy, warm straw blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge and some thin but enthusiastic strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of white bread dough, faded lemongrass, dried rosemary, vague note of ground ivy, very lightly toasted cereals, minerals as in sparkling water, white soap, baking soda, tulips, roselle, whiff of damp earth faraway in the background. Very crisp onset, lots of minerally and prickly carbonation distracting a bit from the fact that the yeast residue brings some faint background fruitiness in the range of pear, green banana and unripe peach, supple but relatively 'full' mouthfeel; white-bready maltiness with a sharper grainy edge to it, vaguely sweetish, well-bittered by a noble but expressive hoppiness, grassy and notably floral (ground ivy, camomile, even a sweeter and tea-like whiff of roselle), with a pleasantly spicy bitterness that lasts for quite a while, absorbing most of the already light malt sweetness. The 33 cl longneck bottle is already a clear sign that this is not a traditional (yet nowadays mostly industrialized) German Pilsener but a free interpretation of it influenced by American craft beer culture, and that influence is noticeable in the content too, though only very faintly so; the fact that it is unfiltered, makes for a softness and fruitiness that one would only find in a Kellerbier as far as traditional German lagers goes, and the hops have a certain flair to them that seems more expressive and a tad more exotic than would typically be the case in a 'true' German Pilsener. Interesting and very decent lager from the land of lagers - it seems a new generation of them is knocking at the door. The fact that Buddelship also does fine and very un-German IPAs, among other styles, does however shines through here, if you can read between the lines...

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Huge thanks to WillemsUrenkel for that one! Bottle looks good. Beer in the glass zippy, small head. Starts fine malty, spicy, some grasy notes. Fine hoppy-dry background. Well balanced finish. Not bad.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Blonde. Hay in the slightly herbal aroma. Grassy, slightly herbal hopbitter flavor. Dry. Long herbal hopbitter finish. Tasty pilsener.