29th December 2009
ChrisO ’Night Of The Gaylords’ tasting. Light gold beer, clear. Dry crisp palate. Light malt with fairly bittering hops - orange and grapefruit.

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ Chris O’s Night of the Gaylords.Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, toasted, light moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, sharp peel bitter, fresh. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20091229]

Bottle at the Chriso Gaylord tasting 09. Clear gold, lasting white head. No great aroma, at least no cardboard. Cold, soft and some hop on finish.

Pours deep gold into a shaker. White head pancakes and recedes leaving spider lacing. Sweet caramel malt and saaz hop aromas. Crisp with upfront caramel turning astringent in the lasting metallic and pepper hop finish.

Bottle sample at a tasting. Slightly hazy golden with a white head. Hoppy aroma with some malt. Dry flavor with only a bit of malty sweetness. Finishes with a rather strong hoppy bitterness. Medium-bodied. Quite nice but not exactly true to the style.

A friend brought this for me from Cape Cod. Yellow-golden color, completely lucid, with a small head. Aroma is corn-y with grassy hops and white bread biscuit maltiness. Taste has NO corn (hooray) but clean lagered malt with a very nice clean, lightly mineral, very refreshing brisk flavor. Some almost apple juice faint flavor at the end to add a dimension of sweetness. Very refreshing finish and makes the beer extremely quaffable. Some above average carbonation rounds it off to add to the refreshing aspect of the beer.
Bottled on 7 122 (??? beats me..??)
12oz bottle, flute-like Grolsch glass.

Draught samples at ABF on 6/16/07
Very thick, white head and bubbly gold body shows a very strong carbonation. Moderate lacing left on glass as well. Liquid is clear.
Very dry, dusty saaz hops in the nose almost seem to outdo the hallertauer (this version had saaz and hallertauer) grassiness. Probably because the hallertauers never get very lush or deep (that juicy, wet, green grass sort of aroma/flavor that they often times have). And that seems like a good thing, as the style demands a more dry, crisp, biting hop character. A bit too much sweetness, however, from the vienna malt, no doubt, leading to a somewhat overshadowed yeast character on the end. A bit of breadiness and lots of carbonic/seltzer-like notes from the carbonation, I guess. Pleasant enough and without flaw, but seems more like an every day pilsner and less of the (fairly) narrow Bohemian type.
Sweet flavor incorporates lots of pale malt richness, a bit of toasty, quite bready vienna malt and a dry grassiness and dustiness from the saaz hops that slowly evolves in to a more robust bitterness, emphasized by more hop flavor coming from the hallertauer. Despite still not thinking it’s much of a Bohemian pils, what I really do like is how distinct the individual ingredients stand out. Simple malt/hop bills can be really enjoyable as they are here. But just a bit too much on the sweetness and very, very carbonated as well. Soft, almost creamy-like in the mouth.