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Ongefilterd pils=ongefilterd pils

3.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1

Imported from my RateBeer account as Amstel Pilsener Ongefilterd (by Heineken Nederland):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 2/20, MyTotalScore: 1.4/5

18/VIII/17 - 30cl bottle from a Dutch supermarket @ Taste and Waste session 2 (home) - BB: IX/2017 (2017-1259)

Clear pretty orange beer, (sorry, only read the instructions after drinking) irregular white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. aroma: grains, malty, cow fodder, cardboard. MF: ok carbon, medium body, smooth texture. Taste: very very sweet and sugary start, some banana cardboard, bad, pretty bad yes. Aftertaste: bit metallic, sweet, hint of banana, slightly bitter, bad stuff, really...

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle from a Jumbo supermarket in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. An unfiltered edition of that awful Amstel lager, I can’t help being a bit curious about this. Foamy, thick and frothy, snow white, ’papery’ lacing, fairly stable head over a warm ’old gold’ coloured beer, a tad darker than usual for an industrial pale lager, clear initially but already showing a thin ’consommé’ of yeast bits throughout, turning equally hazy ’darkish’ gold with sediment - I’ve seen many a Pilsener-derived pale lager looking way worse than this. Simple, ’grainy sweet’ aroma of sugar corn, popcorn even, damp kitchen towels, banana candy and chewing gum, soggy as well as old white bread, hand soap, ’textile’ dust, freshly ironed cloth and something vaguely iron-ish. Same simple, straightforward story in the mouth: a lot of sweet graininess including a lot of corn starch-like sweetishness, no esters at all (as expected, of course), clean, thin, strangely soapy and a bit metallic mouthfeel, with spritzy carbonation, though perhaps a tad less spritzy than is custom for this dreary style. Simple pale malt sweetishness in the middle with a very vague sourish, but equally grainy undertone; the sweetness, in a ’corny’ but also somewhat doughy kind of way, dominates. Minerally aspects on the sides of the tongue carry this boring grainy sweetishness to a rather indifferent finish - though admittedly some very faint notes of baker’s yeast and potato starch are to be found there, albeit in a ’microscopic’ way; this minute yeast effect brings some weak bitterishness, luckily so, as hops remain all but absent. Goes down a bit watery, but a bit bready as well due to this subtle yeast effect. Nothing worth seeking out, as expected, but if you look at this product in its industrial context and compare it with nothing else than its ’regular’, filtered and utterly bland self, this is clearly a small step forward. I never expected to say this about a pale Amstel lager, but this is clearly a much better option than the regular, for carrying a bit more flavour and body, though the nose is still teeming with industrial, non-beery aspects no serious beer afficionado could ever enjoy. But then, nobody expected a Franconian-style Kellerbier here, right?

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

I tasted before pouring the entire bottle and without the yeast from the bottle of the bottle it does taste just like regular Amstel. With the yeast there does seem to be a lightly spicy element and a smoother, creamier mouthfeel.

4.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Straight from the bottle at the beach. Sweet malts, green bean boilwater vegetal notes, butter with sugar. Moderate sweet and quite strong bitterness. Very malty, gelly, porridge, a heavy meal. Average carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Ongefilterd on 30 Dec 2017 at 12:18 - Score: 4

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at home, hazy golden beer, small head. Aroma is malt. Taste is malt, sweet and some bitter, not bad, a bit better than the filtered one.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ home. Almost clear golden color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, a bit grainy, lightly bitter. Don’t know what more to say. Average body and carbonation. Don’t think it’s very different from the regular Amstel.

5.5

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Fles 30cl thuis. Kellerbier, zompig, bitters, malten . (5-2017).----------------