Icelandic Lime & Juniper Pils
Einstök Ölgerð (Einstök Beer Company)

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Appearance: Gold liquid with 1cm of minimal head. Cloudy, but you can still [sort of] see through it. Poured from a 12oz can with a pale yellow-green metallic livery and a brief description of the beverage. Minimal lacing.

Aroma: Strong smells of spruce, wintergreen, mint, lime, frost, juniper.

Taste: Spruce, mountain spring water, creek, lime, salt, juniper, Lime-A-Rita, gin & tonic.

Feel: Perfect carbonation, light but good mouth feel, no dryness.

Overall: Strong aroma and taste, decent look, feels good. Hard to complain, but also hard to have more than one with the overpowering and strong flavors. In its own limited category, it's a great beer. But it also caters to a niche flavor profile.

Pairing: Mexican food. Especially chips and salsa or anything that likes lime, such as cilantro crema.

 

 

 

Poured from a 12 oz. can. Despite zero agitation, this beer came gushing out, resulting in a golden color with lots of head and a small mess. Smell is full of limes and berries. Taste is the same as the aroma but a touch subdued, light tartness. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a pretty good beer.

 

APPEARANCE: Pale golden, with a nice white head and no lace.

NOSE: Crisp malts and a hint of lime and something else subtly spiced.

TASTE: Refreshing with the lime. Juniper berries add an unexpected herbal note. Solid and refreshing as a Summer brew, and a creative touch from the solid Einstok.

 

Poured from the can into a Libbey style pilsner glass.

Mostly clear bodied, but hints at a just faint slight hazy light brass yellow appearance. Nice linear small carbonation reaching to a good bubbly bright white three finger head. There's some retention here, almost IPA like thick and clingy with a nice cap.

The aroma is lime, but smells more like Rose's lime cordial than anything natural. There's a nice earthy herb behind it, definitely the juniper and luckily not too strong either. Other lager charactreristics are either really burried or highly masked, and probably the latter.

Palate comes across slightly and noticeably watery. Light and wet bodied a bit, with not much crisp mouthfeel. Minimal malt density with a weak lime and wet flavor. Some of that earthy juniper transpires but comes off just out of place. Still fairly clean, with a distinct finish and a little hint of lime zesty oil which is nice.

I like the concept but it didn't come out as great or memorable in the final product. Certainly drinkable and fine regardless.

 

Hard to pack flavor into a Pils .... But these folks from Iceland have figured out how to do it.... Mine is icy cold and it's a pretty hot October afternoon so it tastes mighty fine

 

I bought this in a single can, it sounded weird.
Looks mostly clear, light gold/yellow.
Smells great, big hit of juniper and lime followed by some white bread/crackers.
Taste is similar, the lime is most prominent but perfectly balanced, the juniper is more subtle.
It’s crisp and dry, very refreshing. Awesome complex pils. Don’t be put off by the juniper and lime, it works perfect.

 

This one pours a pretty much clear gold, big puffy and rocky perfectly white head. Some decent retention with no lacing.

The aroma is mostly lime with some piney like smells I associate with gin and tonic. I really know nothing about juniper but I guess that’s what adds that noticeable smell.

The taste is, well, gin and tonic in beer form, no other way to put it. It does have some added cracker like notes from the beer side of things.

Nice light body, smooth carbonation, goes down easy and finishes with a piney lingering bitter just like a gin and tonic.

This beer is perfect for what it is supposed to be, it is gin and tonic in beer form. It has the added body of beer which is actually even more welcoming to me than a normal gin and tonic

 

 

Look: Clear, bright gold colour. Pours with a one finger white head. The head disapates quickly leaving a tiny bit of lacing.
Smell: Juniper, lime, and general citrus twang.
Taste: Dry straw on the front end giving way to lime and juniper berries in the middle. Hints of sour apples on the back end.
Feel: Dry and crisp. Slight minerality expected with tonic water.
They bill this as gin and tonic inspired, I would concur....it's not trying to be a gin and tonic so don't go in expecting that. If you go in thinking it's an homage to gin and tonic in Pilsner form you will be in for a treat. This earns a B.