Cermak Pilsner
Goose Island Brewhouse: Clybourn in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Czech Pilsner / Světlý Regular|
Score
6.94
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at Goose Island Brewhouse, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out crisp crackery malt, spicy grassy hops, and some straw. Flavour is crisp, with lots of spicy grassy hops, crisp crackery malt, and straw. Crisp, biting, well-hopped. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at the breeery where theu describe this as a German pilsner. Bright yellow color. Flavor has citrus, grass, pine, and lots of bitter hops. It is however, very sweet for a Czech pils. It should probably be drier. Good hop flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at Clybourn, 4/18/14
Clear deep golden-yellow beer has just a touch of chill-haze and a small to moderate amount of white head with moderate retention.
Hops don’t jump out quite as much as I’d like in the nose, though there is certainly plenty of grass to be found. Malts add plenty of spongecake, honey and dough, while there is some authentic mineral-like hardness, as well. Not that all svetlys must be bursting forth with hops, but I’d like just a little more hop to malt ratio here. Otherwise, no flaws and quite sniffable.
The flavor is immediately bogged down, just slightly, by a looseness of texture and somewhat slick, sticky maltiness. It never gets too sweet, but nor does it finish as crisp as I’d expect. Honey, dough, fair amount of mineral notes and dry, earthy and grassy hop flavors all are pleasant and true, I just think mouthfeel/texture is a huge, huge aspect of this style, and this one dosent nail that. Still, an enjoyable beer with no other real complaints.