OWL (Old World Lager)
Matchless Brewing in Tumwater, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Czech Pilsner / Světlý Regular|
Score
6.72
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OWL is our first attempt at making a true, decocted, Czech style Plsner! Our good friend and owner of Taste Local Beer, Aaron Johns, brought in a unique pivo lager yeast from his favorite brewery in Prague. To this we mashed 100% floor malted Bohemian pilsner malt and did a single decoction, where we boiled 40% of the mash! This process produces an intense, yet delicate malt character of biscuit crust and grass. Hopping for the beer is Czech Saaz only! We added the hops to the boil in the traditional timing resulting in a spicy, lightly fruity flavor and aroma with firm, clean, bitterness. But really though, the only way to know is to go to the CZ, here's to the next best bet...
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy, straw. Thin head. Sort of a grassy, cabbagey aroma...a bit intense on the sulphur. It has a modest bitterness, fairly generic sweet malts, with a light, green, slightly sulphury hop note. Ok, some good elements, but also a little sloppy.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2018
at 02:26
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
16 oz can poured, picked up at Special Brews. A really refreshing pils here. Really enjoyable brew. Golden pour, has plenty of haze to it, making it a bit unique within the style. Some straw and biscuit like malt aroma. Thicker body to this pils, some sweet-ish grains, cracker grain, a lemon like hint in the finish. It's cool on the taste. Solid offering when you just want to crush a cold, tasty brew.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Aug 2018
at 03:31
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
First of all the can was frozen so my score is skewed. The beer went totally flat unfortunately. I can tell what it kind of used to be and that seems to have been a traditional Czech lager and was probably pretty good but that's about as far as I can go.
Tried
from Can
on 02 May 2018
at 07:04