Prinzregent
Schilling Beer Co.

No canning date (released on 9/17/21, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 1/2/22

Pours a foggy, straw-gold body capped with three fingers of rocky, soapy, white foam; good head retention leaves a thin layer of cap along with a moderate, frothy collar climbing the walls of the glass to meet chunky, soapy layers of webby lacing.

Aroma opens with a delicate balance of soft lemon essence and buckwheat honey followed by siloed grain and toasted malt over the middle; unleavened bread dough finds a tinge of  lager yeast and minerality on the back end and into the close.

Taste shows impressions of straw and toasted bread crusts upfront, a base for light lemon and soft, flaky malt over the mid-palate leading into unleavened bread and buckwheat honey on the back end, and features of lemon peel twang alongside grass on the finish.

Mouthfeel offers a medium body with fluffy carbonation on the higher end of moderate and a yeasty density for texture; a soft, lemony twang peaks to a subtle crispness over the mid-palate, while robust breadiness invites a pseudo-grit and toasty bitterness to the back end, evenly cleanly on the finish.

The oaky twang of the foeder-aging somewhat detracts from the consistency of a hyperfocused lager yeast and pillowy malt base, bringing forth an ambitious depth the profile as a whole occasionally struggles to account for while simultaneously offering an engaging take on the paler Festbier style.