Clear yellow golden colour, good frothy white head, recedes only slowly, foamy layer remains, fair lacing. Malt aroma, bread, grass, fruity notes, bit yeasty. Flavour smooth medium sweet and light bitter. Medium texture, oily texture, bit peppery on the tongue, average carbonation. Finish mild dry bitter and slightly sweet, OK pilsener.

50cl bottle, bought in a cool mix six pack, pours with a crystal clear gold body that supports a white head of foam that leaves behind some spotty lacing. The modest aroma offers up floral hops, grainy malts and then some sweet sugary malts and followed by faint levels of lime citrus like hops and spicy hoppiness. The taste starts with bitter floral hops and malt sweetened lime citrus notes and then it rolls into a thin grainy malt note before the spicy to floral hop bitterness moves forward again and takes this into the finish. Pretty nice hop forward Pils.

Fles 50cl thuis. Stevig, kruidig, drogig, hoppig bitter. Lange nadronk. (11-5-2014). (1000ste). 8,5. Van tap in Wismar. Malttonen, licht zoetje, kruidig, licht droog, bitters. (22-8-2018).

Light golden medium head simple nose light malty medium hebal bitter final not long

(Bottle) Pale golden colour with frothy, white head. Malty nose with bread, grass, hay, a touch of citrus and aromas of fresh hops. Malty taste with bread, grass, hints of citrus and a dry finish with a fresh, grassy bitterness. Medium body, quite dry. Crisp and clean, well made pilsener. Quiet enjoyable.

Ins Glas ergießt sich ein klares goldenes Bier mit schöner Schaumkrone. Geruch hopfig, getreidig, grasig. Geschmack hopfig, grasig, lang anhaltende Bitterkeit.

18th Jan 2014 and I’m at Berlin’s annual International Green Week and I wandered into one of the exhibition halls to be confronted by a huge Stortebeker bar in the form of a large boat: Their Pilsner being one of the beers available on tap. It being the weakest I asked for a 0.3 litre (I was on a drinking mission and strong beers were not really an option). The beer came looking like your usual golden, clean and clear Pilsner, with the typical white fading head. The nose seemed stronger than most German Pilsners, this had a floral, herbal and grainy aroma. The actual taste was weak, not much going on: refreshing enough but lacked any real flavours, good or bad. I decided it was a bog standard Pilsner with a better smell than most, but with ’run of the mill’ attributes otherwise. Nothing to set it apart from thousands of similar brews, which is a shame.