Brewer's Special Berlin Pilsner
Saimaa Brewing Company in Mikkeli, South Savo, Finland 🇫🇮
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
5.86
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Canned (from S-Market Maalahti). Hazy golden colour, huge white head. Aroma is grainy, metallic, rubbery and some slight herbal and grassy notes. Flavour is grassy, herbal and quite nice in the beginning but ruined by a huge metallic flavour in the aftertaste. Potentially good, but once again, ruined by the metallic notes.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
0,5l can from S-Market Simpele. Clear, light golden beer with small head. Spruce, pine, hops and citrus on aroma and taste. However, at the end we only have dry/bitter hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can 50 cl. Pours a hazy golden with a white head. Flowery hop aroma, slightly yeasty. Body a little thin, hint of metal and yeast with a somewhat harsh bitterness. I find the bitterness a little too overpowering for the thinnish body. 290718
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Drunk from can. Smell of hops, grass, some spruce. Aroma of hops, grass, spruce, finishes with a long maltiness. Fresh, very balanced.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Can 0.5l at home, Vantaa. enjoyed straight from the can. Aromas and flavours: Grass, some distant hints of fruits and malts. Very boring bad pils.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
(Can, 0.5 l - BB 240419, from a supermarket, 20180223) The beer poured golden and lightly hazy. Its head was medium sized, frothy and white. Aroma had grass and lightly fruitiness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were sweetness, fruitiness, white bread, earth, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was bready and bitter. A rather weird take on pils.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
50cl can. Poured slightly unclear golden color with a thick white head. Aroma is grassy hops, Saaz really upfront. Saimaa house flavors there but Saaz covers them almost completely. Grassy, hay malty flavors, light harshness in finish. Nice Saaz hoppyness again. Not very balanced, but much better than their previous cans in this series.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can 500ml (KSM Kampus)
Golden, slighlty hazy colour, good white head and lace. Light fruity grainy aroma, not really typical Saaz. Light-bodied. Harsh and grainy flavour. Typical Saimaa house flavour. With few extra 0.1%:s not as watery as their "III-lagers" but flavour is similar.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can 5.0% abv. A light yellow, medium hazy, a head is blond and quite big. Aroma has maltyness, grass and hint of aromatic flowers. Taste has maltyness, grass, some aromatic notes, nicely strong bitterness. Medium bodied. Unfiltered beer from Saimaa, and now it feels better than usually the harsh beers from them. Nicely aromatic and good level of bitterness.