Harlequin British Pilsner
Utopian Brewing in Bow, Devon, England 🏴
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
7.24
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can at glasshouse brewery. Clear golden colour with a white head. Light citrus fruit. With a dry finish. Medium body.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Harlequin British Pilsner from Utopian Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can at glasshouse. An attractive golden yellow coloured pour with a steadfast rocky white head. Aroma is clean spicy hop, weed grass, earrhy nutty grains, weed. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, crisp, green hedgerow hop, weed, pine, gooseberry. Palate is semi sweet, fluffy, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can at Glasshouse Tap. Aroma has malts and citrus. Chewy biscuits. Clear gold. Thick foamy foamy white head. Light sour citrus. Underlying grainy bitterness and malts. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 27/06/23. Clear light golden blonde with a well presented billowing white cap. Nose is pale malts, orange zest, herb, grass, floral notes, green berry tang, straw. Taste comprises lemon zest, straw, hedgerow, pale and bready malts, grass, light dank chimes, hint of stoned fruits. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with lightly dankened to grassy hop bitterness. Solid refreshing and thirst quenching stuff ... blind tasting you'd probably go IPL (of the US variety) but the Harlequin is fresh and juicy and tricks you into presuming its a heavy hitting US cousin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
17th June 2023
Can. Just a light haze on this bright yellowish gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. The malt base is light and on the sweetish side but not overly sweet. Harlequin hops bring soft pine and very mild skunk. Harlequin hop fruits seem to be elusive to me, not recessive, elusive as in one beer, some aspects show, in an another, different aspects. Here is there is soft melon and a touch of pear and a whisper of floral apricot. Finishes smooth and semi dry and leaves a piney linger. Crushable lager, could do with being a degree less sweet but it vanished in no time.
Harley hops elevate this from the standard pils. Lovely bitterness.