Old German Premium Lager
Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
5.05
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16oz can from Johns Marketplace Beaverton. Clear golden pour with short lived head. I came of drinking age during the late 70's macro lager period. And the first sip brought back such good memories of good times and keg parties. Not a ton of flavor, just some pale, bready malts that go down so easily. And all for $1.89 a pint. Good times, very nostalgic.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Big can at Doug's Christmas tasting. Pours clear straw yellow with a small white head, some lacing. Grains, bready, wet straw. Ok, not as bad as I expected.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Tall can pours out pale straw topped with a white head. Nose is grain corn and grass. Taste is more of the sweet grain grass.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can poured into glass. Almost clear, light body, lower carbonation. Taste is light malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
24 ounce can from Belmont Station. Drank out of the can. A light skunky metallic nose. Pretty much a mostly dirty grainy flavor. Not much flavor besides corn and metal. Easy to drink for the most part.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
Sampled from a 16 oz can this beer poured a vibrant yellow color with a medium sized soapy white head that faded quickly. The aroma was tang, sweetish and very corny with a bit of artificial grape undertone. The flavor was tangy, sweet and corny with notes of artificial grape and bubblegum. The finish was long, sour and tangy. Bland.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can from John’s Marketplace. Pale gold with a huge frothy white head. Aroma is lightly bready. Light bodied with mild carbonation. Flavor is mild light malt with very mild hop. Lightly sweet. Really rather refreshing.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Tin. Poured Pale yellow with thin fast dissipating white head. No lacing. Sour weak aroma, Flat malt flavour, no hop. Weak cardboardy finish. Not a premium lager by any means. Cheap, but not good cheap.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
When I was twenty something , in 1977 or so, we used to drink cases of this stuff. Good beer at a decent price. How many pale yellow lager American brews can you think of that fit those specs and are not currently owned by BMC? After 20 years I bought another case. So, I rate as I drink. I am proud to be a drinker of Pgh Brewing beers, support your local breweries! Don’t serve this cold, it needs to be drank at about 50 degrees to appreciate its full flavor. How about the name ‘Old German’! Quite an attitude toward the German beers. 12 oz artistic white can with the statement that ‘the world knows no finer’ - how confident and nifty. When you pop the lid you get a sour citrus wiff. Into the glass it turns more into a light yeasty beer aroma. Ubiquitous pale yellow lager colors with steady streams of mixed medium and small quickly rising bubbles, champagne in nature. Head is thin white and clean. The initial taste is pilsner in flavor. It is very well behaved and gentlemanlike in it’s etiquette. An above average tasting lager, clean and fresh. Not much personality, it is more kind and refined than those bitter beers. This is one of Pgh Brewing’s better entries. It lacks the metal-ness so often found in most Iron City beers. Now that I’ve rated a few beers, I don’t think I would even think of this as a Pgh Brewing drink, it is less offensive. The finish is non-assuming and enjoyable, it seems to have the qualities of a light brew. Brilliant, this is the United States answer to those pale yellow German lagers. In Pittsburgh, we can do it better, or at least just as good, at a lower price. Overall, a very above average German style lager that is almost as smooth as many wit biers! I am very surprised of the smoothness! I can’t believe I was a nullifidian before drinking this again after so long! After looking at the rest of these ratings, I’m curious if I just got a good batch or something. I’ll have to get another case in a few months and try again as to confirm my good findings.