Open the Portal
DSSOLVR in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.59
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jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Open the Portal from DSSOLVR 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Slightly hazy golden and light orange coloured body with a thinnish, very fast-dying pure white head that starts at barely over a centimetre tall and ends at just about nothing (paper-thin) after a few seconds. Aroma of crisp biscuity malt with a light brewed coffee note with some earthy and rustic notes along with a dry and floral characteristic with some subdued sweet notes, but this really is all about the lager yeasts and the biscuity malt in the nose, at least. Light-bodied; Crisp biscuity malts show with some light grain and floral notes with the brewed coffee coming through after a few seconds, but it's very mild and subdued without much bitterness and no depth. Afteraste is soft, relatively simplistic in terms of the biscuity malts and lager yeast without much else - with a touch of very soft sugars from caster sugar that shows at the very end. Overall, a decent enough pils, but not enough coffee flavours or depth beyond the malts to make this good or worth trying to find. I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from the Department of Beer and Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 28-August-2020 for US$3,68 sampled at my house here in Washington on 13-November-2020.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Open the Portal from DSSOLVR 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Coffee comes across very, very faint. Were I tasting this pint blind, I'd probably just say it was an extra-grainy craft pils, with nary an adjunct to be found. As it is, the pint offers up grainy sweetness, notes of lemon and apple, a little white bread and cut grass, a mild floral bitterness on the back end, and the lightest of touches of java roast deep in the fade. As a pils, it's not bad: crisp, light, and bright. As a coffee pils, well...I admire the restraint, something not usually found in coffee beers, but they pulled back a little too hard on the throttle here.