Grafenwalder Gold
Frankfurter Brauhaus GmbH
- From:
- Frankfurter Brauhaus GmbH
- Germany
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 1.91 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 05, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 05, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
1.91/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2
1.91/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2
.5L clear plastic bottle with cola-esque plastic screw-top acquired as part of a 6 pack for a ridiculously cheap amount (something like 2 euro including the 25 cent pfand) at a Lidl market in Berlin, Germany. Reviewed live. Expectations are low given the price, presentation, and my previous experience with Grafenwalder. 4.90% ABV per the label. Served cold into a Berliner Kindl Weiss glass in me friend's gaff in Berlin. BB: 12.10.14.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Fizzy off-white head. Recedes inside 15 seconds, leaving no lacing.
BODY: Clear translucent dark copper of below average vibrance. No yeast particulate or hop sediment is visible. Don't look like much.
Not unique or special for a pilsener. I'm not real excited to try it, but I've seen worse and it seems adequately carbonated.
AROMA: Light in strength. Pilsner malts, grains, and barley. That's it. Painfully simple, but aside from some general staleness there's no off character.
Luckily, it doesn't smell boozy or hot. I also don't find yeast or hop character.
TASTE: Pilsner malts. Grains. Barley. Straw. Plastic off-notes abound.
Yeah, that's all folks. A painfully simple build with nothing to offer the discerning drinker. No hop character, no fresh full malts, no yeast character, nothing. But in fairness, it's not too sweet and it isn't watery or boozy - which is a big leap forward from many budget pilsners.
No complexity, subtlety, intricacy, or nuance whatsoever. Shallow depth of flavour. Below average duration and intensity of flavour.
I can't say I like it, but it's far from intolerable. There's a bit of flavour here.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, light to medium-bodied, and unrefreshing. Overly thick and hefty on the palate for such a simple bland and boring pilsner. Too weighty. Overall presence on the palate is quite poor. It comes off stale and somewhat unapproachable. This texture is not a good companion to the taste.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, or harsh.
It rings cheap, but I want to make sure I'm pointing out that it isn't watery because that's an important distinction at this price point.
OVERALL: It'll meet your expectations given its price point and the fact that it comes from a plastic screw-top bottle. For the street alcoholic and/or student demographic, it's a niche success, but I can't in good faith recommend it to anyone, nor would I pick it up again - as good as the price point is. It'd make a great cooking beer and hides its ABV well, for what that's worth. Not undrinkable, but pretty poorly executed overall, with some unbecoming plastic off-notes.
D-
Jun 05, 2014No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Fizzy off-white head. Recedes inside 15 seconds, leaving no lacing.
BODY: Clear translucent dark copper of below average vibrance. No yeast particulate or hop sediment is visible. Don't look like much.
Not unique or special for a pilsener. I'm not real excited to try it, but I've seen worse and it seems adequately carbonated.
AROMA: Light in strength. Pilsner malts, grains, and barley. That's it. Painfully simple, but aside from some general staleness there's no off character.
Luckily, it doesn't smell boozy or hot. I also don't find yeast or hop character.
TASTE: Pilsner malts. Grains. Barley. Straw. Plastic off-notes abound.
Yeah, that's all folks. A painfully simple build with nothing to offer the discerning drinker. No hop character, no fresh full malts, no yeast character, nothing. But in fairness, it's not too sweet and it isn't watery or boozy - which is a big leap forward from many budget pilsners.
No complexity, subtlety, intricacy, or nuance whatsoever. Shallow depth of flavour. Below average duration and intensity of flavour.
I can't say I like it, but it's far from intolerable. There's a bit of flavour here.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, light to medium-bodied, and unrefreshing. Overly thick and hefty on the palate for such a simple bland and boring pilsner. Too weighty. Overall presence on the palate is quite poor. It comes off stale and somewhat unapproachable. This texture is not a good companion to the taste.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, or harsh.
It rings cheap, but I want to make sure I'm pointing out that it isn't watery because that's an important distinction at this price point.
OVERALL: It'll meet your expectations given its price point and the fact that it comes from a plastic screw-top bottle. For the street alcoholic and/or student demographic, it's a niche success, but I can't in good faith recommend it to anyone, nor would I pick it up again - as good as the price point is. It'd make a great cooking beer and hides its ABV well, for what that's worth. Not undrinkable, but pretty poorly executed overall, with some unbecoming plastic off-notes.
D-
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