Mike's Premium Organic Pilsner
Mike's Organic Brewery
- From:
- Mike's Organic Brewery
- New Zealand
- Style:
- Czech / Bohemian Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.69 | pDev: 16.36%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 26, 2011
- Added:
- Jul 28, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
2.25/5 rDev -16.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.25/5 rDev -16.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
I love a good New Zealand pilsener. Unfortunately, this is not a good New Zealand pilsener. Let's press on anyway...
Looks pretty wonderful, truth be told. Classic pale but brilliantly clear yellow body, with a frothy and persistent head of pure white. Lacing is patchy and sticky, and there's fine carbonation right through the body. Gorgeous.
From here on, it's downhill. Nose is depressingly sweet with overt bready yeast characters, and a sickly grain character that almost suggests artificially sweetened cereal. Minimal hop character, and too much depth and length. It should be crisp and light, and the additional sweetness just makes me cringe.
Taste is similar. Oatmeal biscuit sweetness on the front, with a sweet, slightly darker midpalate, that gives more husky grains and minimal malt, before just a hint of bitterness on the back. Finish is long and sticky with more yeast and grainy cookie characters. Feel is light enough, but feels heavy from the sweetness.
Too heavy, too sweet, and with only a nod to the fragrant hops that make the style so great. Way off balance, as far as I'm concerned.
Sep 26, 2011Looks pretty wonderful, truth be told. Classic pale but brilliantly clear yellow body, with a frothy and persistent head of pure white. Lacing is patchy and sticky, and there's fine carbonation right through the body. Gorgeous.
From here on, it's downhill. Nose is depressingly sweet with overt bready yeast characters, and a sickly grain character that almost suggests artificially sweetened cereal. Minimal hop character, and too much depth and length. It should be crisp and light, and the additional sweetness just makes me cringe.
Taste is similar. Oatmeal biscuit sweetness on the front, with a sweet, slightly darker midpalate, that gives more husky grains and minimal malt, before just a hint of bitterness on the back. Finish is long and sticky with more yeast and grainy cookie characters. Feel is light enough, but feels heavy from the sweetness.
Too heavy, too sweet, and with only a nod to the fragrant hops that make the style so great. Way off balance, as far as I'm concerned.
Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia
3.13/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.13/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Pours gold with a small, white head.
Nose shows honey, spicy and floral hops and loads of butterscotch.
More honey and light sweet malt as flavours, also some spicy, resinous hops.
Body feels a bit watery. Nice moderate carbonation.
On the malty side for a pilsner.
Jul 28, 2011Nose shows honey, spicy and floral hops and loads of butterscotch.
More honey and light sweet malt as flavours, also some spicy, resinous hops.
Body feels a bit watery. Nice moderate carbonation.
On the malty side for a pilsner.
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