McKenzie Shanes Gold
McKenzie Brew House in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.50
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cheap (9479) reviewed McKenzie Shanes Gold from McKenzie Brew House 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Had this at the brewpub in Melvern. Nice frresh just plain good beer aroma, perhaps a little tart. My sample looked more like a good hefe than a pilsner. It was cloudy, hazy and straw colored. Tea froth head. On the initial tastes, very mild on the taste buds. Not much pilsner bite and I appreciated that. However, as the session continues, there is a buildning pilsner bite that is sneaking up from behind. Typical pilsner finish, medium bitter linger. Pilsner bite end medium to mild.
Ungstrup (52101) reviewed McKenzie Shanes Gold from McKenzie Brew House 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft at the brewpub, July 2006. A yellow beer with a rim of white head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of oranges, while the flavor is a fine delicate one with a good malt back ground on which are notes of oranges, that lead to a very dry grassy and citrusy end with a good deal of bitterness.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed McKenzie Shanes Gold from McKenzie Brew House 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Draught pint at the Malvern location on 10/6/06 with Dickinsonbeer.
Head retention seemed to leave a little to be desired on the beers we had this day, but other than that, a lucid bronze body is clear and shows minimal carbonation. The white head is initially small and dissipates rather steadily, leaving behind light, spotty lacing.
Fresh, crisp, biting and bitter hops in the nose are luscious and wonderfully utilized. Very strong aroma, with delicate honey notes dancing in the background and a very dry, crisp yeast bite on the end. Light minerals, appropriate to the style, from the yeast, but not overdone. Nor is there any trace of anything unauthentic here. I sometimes feel that hallertauer hops lose out to styrian goldings in their combination of dryness/snappiness and aroma/flavor (styrian having both the dryness AND the more complex flavor), but not so here. This is like the most lush and fertile grass, soft and fuzzy but at the same time poignant and crisp. And that’s just the aroma.
The flavor struck me right away as, well, a Bohemian pils. You sort of keep in the back of your head a model of what the perfect example of a style would taste like. This came really close. The hops are about 90% flavor and 10% bittering, just leaving enough bitterness to help aid the yeast in clearing the light malt. They are fully dry, wonderfully grassy and almost fruity, they seem so fresh. Must have been a freshly harvested batch of hops. The malt is medium-light to light in texture, without being watery or too lean, yet at no time does it assert dominance or build up on the palate. Warm honey and very slight baked dough notes, provide a substantial medium on which to display the hops. The attenuation is perfect as well, not being too dry as to get bready or papery, and having enough sweetness to fend back yeast-derived acidity. And last but not least, the yeast on the finish might be even more stunning than the hops. It’s full of that mineral-like lager yeast bite that is so charming about this style. Crisp and snappy, finishing dry and urging another sip. Supremely drinkable, no brewing flaws.
Tough to critique this one. I suppose the carbonation, while not poorly represented here, just dosent have what a tight, bottle conditioned carbonation has. This one is a touch loose at times. The aroma, while chalk full of hops, could, perhaps stand a touch more malt nuance, while maybe you could have a more robust maltiness (though it’s difficult to do so without messing up the balance). I’m reaching though. It’s hard to ask for much more than this.