Surf To Slope
Masthead Brewing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.21
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cheap (9533) reviewed Surf To Slope from Masthead Brewing Company 5 months ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 1.5
Pour from a $3 pounder can is clear pale with a big foaming lasting white head. Nose is quite citrusy hop and pils-like. First taste is like pilsner too, very bitter & pointed pilsner! Quite sharp, lots of hop bite, bordering on india pale pilsner. Yes, super sharp pilsner bite that hangs for quite a while after each big swig. What a blast, almost medicinal in nature. Almost difficult in the middle. I'd say these hops are not so nobile, hehehehh. Sharpness drifts toward rubbery flavor near the end. I think the bitterness almost makes it way to crisp; snappily brittle. If this is what NZ pilsners taste like, you can keep em for yerself, over on yer island. Probably the aroma of this bomb is the best characteristic. Rated this clear down in the bottom of my pile near war pigs Light in the black, Lancaster Pilsner & Big timber logger .There, you have it.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Surf To Slope from Masthead Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Very clean and crisp golden coloured body with a nice single to two centimetre tall pure white head that sits atop the crystal clear body that has a million bubbles rising from the bottom. Aroma of very bright and incredibly aromatic, tropically hops with passionfruit, papaya, guava, mangoes and especially white wine grapes all noticeable - this is incredible in the nose with a very crisp maltiness detectable on the end, but the nose is all about the fresh hops. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong crisp, grassy and floral notes dominate with seemingly an equal balance of the malt and hops with a light dose of sugars noticeable from caster sugar, but those tropically hop notes dominate on the end with a bunch of passionfruit, guava and papaya flavours detected, with an easy-drinking sweetness right behind and some soft malts here still. Aftertaste shows an easy-drinking lager with a crisp yeast noticeable, some fresh malts that are clean and a great deal of medium bittering hops with some lighter alpha acids, but much more in terms of the flavours generated from the hops. Overall, a very exciting, clean-drinking, but full-of-flavour and pretty simplistic (but that's the draw of it) beer that hits the marks very well and is great for the spring or summer, for sure! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, given to me after a hockey game on 22-February-2023, on the roof of the rink, in Arlington, Virginia - Thanks Jacob!