Safety Dance
Smartmouth Brewing Company

 

 

Safety Dance Pilsner has a very thick, white head and a somewhat hazy, golden appearance, with moderate lacing. The aroma is of sweet cracker. The flavor is of sweet cracker and grassy hops. Safety Dance Pilsner has a medium body and a dry finish.

RJT

 

 

 

Another random single I spent while stocking up on reviewing material in Virginia this past weekend. Passes the eye and nose tests, with a resiliant puffy whitehead and and a radiant golden hue.

Crystal malts and assorted right bread notes pace this with noble hops arriving slightly late to the party in the aftertaste. A touch of Saaz spice, very competent carbonating; this is a solid effort if not outstanding.

Great Pilsner. Smells slightly bready, drinks clean and crisp with a light lingering after taste. At 4.3% great drinkable beer without compromising taste.

 

Tap: little hazed straw golden, light lace; bready hay nose; above avg carb, clean enough; peppery biscuit bready w/nice grassy bitterness.

L) Pours a lovely straw color with a thin white head. Some lacing is present.

S) A very clean, and subtly sweet smell comes forward from the brew. A slight spice can be detected from the noble hops used. A lovely sniff for sure.

T) This is a straightforward and clean German style Pilsener. A wee bit of bittering from the hops at the end balances out a very drinkable, and crisp pilsener malt profile, with a lovely dry finish.

F) The beer is light and crisp with apropriate carbonation.

O) This is a lovely American, German style Pilsener. It's worth mentioning I am pairing it with garlic chicken and pork fried rice, it works quite well with American Chinese :^)

 

I'm trying this at the brewery. It poured a clear golden with white head that is leaving a spotty lace. The scent is faint grain. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with maize presence. The mouthfeel is lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it's a solid beer.

 

Poured from a 12oz can into a Samuel Adams Perfect Pint glass. Canned on 04/21/17 on bottom of can.

A: Slightly hazy straw yellow with 1-2 fingers of foamy white head with decent retention and nice lacing. Downgraded for the haze which should not be there.

S: Bready pils maltiness with lemony, herbal, spicy hop aromas, lightly grassy, with a hint of sulfur

T: Really nice flavor that starts a bit sweet pils malty but low-to-moderate bitterness comes through and delicious hops flavors of floral, herbal, slight spicy, and lemon provide excellent counterbalance. There is another flash of malty breadiness in the finish and a hint of mineral-sulfur in the finish as well. Not quite bitter enough for German Pilsner, probably a bit too much for Helles. Clean with no off-yeast flavors or aromas.

M: Light-bodied with high carbonation and crisp dry finish.

O: Enjoyable lager than needs about 8-10 more IBUs to be a German pilsner and about 5-6 less to be a Helles. Still delicious and a good summer pick.

Smartmouth Brewing Co. "Alter Ego"
12 fl. oz. can, "CANNED ON 04/19/17" and sampled on 05/01/17
$2.29 @ Total Wine & More, Virginia Beach, VA

Notes via stream of consciousness: First off, let me ask you Total Wine & More, why did this can of pilsner at just 4.8% ABV cost me more than a 6.2% ABV Belgian-style saison from the same brewery? That doesn't make any sense... same store, same order. And it's not like their was a price increase, or at least I hope there wasn't, because the cheaper saison was fresher than this one. Ugh. Anyway, it looks pretty good: hazy yellow gold body beneath a finger-thick head of bright white. The aroma suggests sweetish grainy malt and floral, herbal, and lightly grassy hops. The flavor follows. It's clean, fairly well balanced by a firm bitterness, and easy to drink. It's a little sweetish at the outset but it still finishes mostly dry. I'm OK with that, it's a refreshing, easy to drink beer, but it's not what I think of as a "German-style lager". There's not enough bitterness, and there's not enough hop flavor or aroma - especially for the north German style. You might find something like this in the south, but even with the sweetish malt balance you'd still have more hops in play. At least in my experience that is. Looking back the head has dropped but it's left some fine lacing behind. Medium to medium-light in body and crisp with a standard carbonation. I know they make a Sommer Fling hefeweizen, which is nice, but I think this would do just as well in the heat.