Poly-Rythmo
Modern Times Beer

Unfiltered golden body. Sweet biscuit, grassy and floral, a touch of spice. Crisp, integrates well with the hops which provide a mild spicy and grassy bitterness on the finish. Lighter medium body, good carbonation. I slightly prefer Oracolo.

This pours a crystal clear straw gold. Clean and grassy aroma, some nutty biscuit malt on the sip balances out the just mowed lawn. Tightly effervescent, dry finish. Yum!

Pours hazy yellow with a big ass head as I pour into my Pilsner urquell mug
Smell is grassy sweet. Maybe some Saz hops
Flavor is lemon and grassy vegetal with a sweet finish. Good thick body for the style. Almost feels like it’s from the source.
Good Pilsner

 

 

 

Straight pour from a 16oz can to a teku. This has a canning date of January 9, 2019 printed in black ink on the underside of the can (“CANNED ON 01/09/19”). That would make it 14 days old at the time of consumption.

Appearance (3.5): About one and a half fingers of tight, crackly foam rise off of the pour, capping a 24-ct. golden body that’s nearly clear. It dissipates at a slightly faster than average pace, leaving just a few small swaths of clingy, lacy blobs just above the edge of the body, attached to a light collar.

Smell (3.75): In the nose, I pick up a mélange of light, sweet grains and sweet grass, blending to take the form of Honeycrisp apple flesh and fresh-pressed Bartlett pear. A soft understory of sweet corn, pale malt, and light honey on toasted, rolled oats adds some body, but it meshes so smoothly with the fruit and sweet grass aromas that it feels seamless.

Taste (4.0): On the palate, the beer shows much more mineral character and gentle, but crisp, bitter grass notes. It rolls in with soft lemon zest and fresh-cut grass, buoyed by a pale, grainy body (common crackers, a touch of light-colored honey, and pancake batter). This unfolds into a minerally, citrusy phase, suggesting wet stone and lemon zest, before resolving with a sweet, floral character. No sign of booze. It’s dry, but soft and swishy, never coming close to parching or feeling starchy. The hops do not give the impression of coming from a Noble line, especially with the sweet floral and orchard fruit character, but the minerality and pale grains do feel on point.

Mouthfeel (4.5): First off, this is quenching AF. It cascades across your tongue with a soft blanket of carbonation that lifts up a slightly shy-of-medium-weight body, which in turn feels soft, juicy, and smooth. That carbonation foams up gently, encouraging the beer to wash out almost as soon as you drink it. The hops assist in drying out the beer just enough to strike a very even balance between soft, foamy, and juicy, and dry, crisp, and quenching. This is exceedingly drinkable, even if it’s missing some of the dryness and more assertive carb I might normally associate with the style.

Overall (3.75): This is an interesting beer. If it’s called a German Pilsner, I think that’s probably due to the pilsner category lacking a formal space for American-ish takes on what you can do with the idea of a pilsner. That said, it’s not like this beer is busting out of the style or rewriting any books. What we’ve got is a well-made pilsner, as evidenced by the mouthfeel if not the appearance, built to showcase some more interesting use of hops than you normally would see in a traditional German or Czech pilsner. Personally, I like that. Even so, this beer is not going to blow anyone’s mind in any regard. It will be, however, reliably easy and delightful to drink. Recommended.