Subsidiaries
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pale orange coloured cloudy and lively. Nice and tart with banana aroma. A good and true-to-style hefeweizen.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2002
at 17:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Ok, so it's very seldom fresh at all in North America. I just remember a few years ago in Halifax when I had some straight off the boat. That's where these high marks come from. When fresh, this is a first-rate pilsner. When not fresh, well, it's like any other beer that isn't fresh. Usually on this side of the ocean you'll want to get it on tap or from the can, to avoid skunkage.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Oct 2001
at 11:36
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Deep gold; much maltier than Urquell, solid but unspectacular...............
Tried
on 03 May 2001
at 14:27
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
I rated this a 3.6 in June 2000, original rating text below. I've had it a fair bit over the years and never thought about re-rating it. But now that it's in brown bottles, and I just bought a fresh sixer of it, I was struck by just how great this beer really is, and so I thought I'd look up my old rating, and for sure that 3.6 is too low. I'm fairly sure that was the phase many beer geeks go through of really only giving high rates to the high grav ales. Anyway, this is just damn near perfect. Big grassy somewhat catty hop aromatics, a good solid whack of bracing bitterness at the finish, all balanced by clean light bready maltiness. It's so good. original: Ideal version of the style. Clean and crisp, with enough body to really taste it. The pils hoppiness is very apparent. The golden color is pleasing to the eye and beats the crap out of looking at most other pilsners out there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2000
at 19:45