Typö Pils
2SP Brewing Company
- From:
- 2SP Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.22 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 21, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 23, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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2SP Brewing Company, an award-winning craft brewery in the Philadelphia region, is partnering with Post Typography, a Baltimore-based creative studio, for a collaboration series of limited 16 oz. cans that will feature forgotten lettering, like 17th Century Italian calligraphy, and unappreciated lager styles, including pilsners and dunkels. Typö Pils, the first beer of the Typography series, is a hoppy and bright 5.5% abv pilsner made with calypso and saphir hops. The Typö Pils label combines two Teutonic letter styles – Bauhaus-era modernism lettering with a Kurrentschrift style over top. Kurrentschrift, a nearly-forgotten lettering style, was popular in Germany in the early 20th Century, but was banned by the Third Reich.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.22/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.22/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
There I was, knee-deep in Take Your Pils With A New Beer, We're Heading to Media, PA This Sunday (Week 752)!, when the Sterling Pig took great umbrage at my suggestion of a pig roast on the beach. He snuffed & snorted & ordered me out of town! 8=O I quickly summoned an Uber & headed 6 miles S to Aston, to see my old buddy, "Big" Bob Barrar of 2SP. Bob & I go WAY back, to when he was apprenticing under his brother-in-law, Jim CANcro, at Red Bell. "Big" Bob really is big, a giant of a man with a Russian Cossack-like black beard. He is like our Lt. Gov. Fetterman - security? Who needs security? I AM security!
From the CAN: "A Pilsner by 2SP Brewing Company + Post Typography"; "Everything we CAN't drink we CAN".
Boy, is my face red! It was nice work on the add & approved pic as well as the Notes, but not real timely on the follow-through. 8=( I had been meaning to do a 2SP horizontal well before this, but they just kept getting bumped aside until now.
I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into my fave Pilsner glass. I backed off as it beCAN to foam up, forming two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4). Nose had a berry-like fruitiness along with a biscuity maltiness.
This struck me as the good kind of different, as opposed to bad different. It may not have been in keeping with style guidelines, but that is the bugaboo of reviewing & rating to style & not to taste. Some beers CAN & may suffer as a result. It is also the impetus for the "Overall" score. It may not have adhered to style, but if you liked it, then fair dinkum.
Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was more bitter than the nose had led me to expect and it was hoppier than the style really calls for. It struck me as closer to a Czech Pils than a GER Pils. It was a citrusy bitterness & I would say that what I did not like about it was not the lemony flavor, but the grapefruit which would be more suited to an AmeriCAN Pils, if such a style existed. I know that my German ancestors would have pooh-poohed this one. It was not bad, per se, just not within spec for the style. Finish was dry and bitter, more suited to a Czech Pils. As for me, it was not the worst Pils that I have had recently nor was it the best. My numbers will all fall into the "Okay" range as a result.
Jul 21, 2019From the CAN: "A Pilsner by 2SP Brewing Company + Post Typography"; "Everything we CAN't drink we CAN".
Boy, is my face red! It was nice work on the add & approved pic as well as the Notes, but not real timely on the follow-through. 8=( I had been meaning to do a 2SP horizontal well before this, but they just kept getting bumped aside until now.
I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into my fave Pilsner glass. I backed off as it beCAN to foam up, forming two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4). Nose had a berry-like fruitiness along with a biscuity maltiness.
This struck me as the good kind of different, as opposed to bad different. It may not have been in keeping with style guidelines, but that is the bugaboo of reviewing & rating to style & not to taste. Some beers CAN & may suffer as a result. It is also the impetus for the "Overall" score. It may not have adhered to style, but if you liked it, then fair dinkum.
Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was more bitter than the nose had led me to expect and it was hoppier than the style really calls for. It struck me as closer to a Czech Pils than a GER Pils. It was a citrusy bitterness & I would say that what I did not like about it was not the lemony flavor, but the grapefruit which would be more suited to an AmeriCAN Pils, if such a style existed. I know that my German ancestors would have pooh-poohed this one. It was not bad, per se, just not within spec for the style. Finish was dry and bitter, more suited to a Czech Pils. As for me, it was not the worst Pils that I have had recently nor was it the best. My numbers will all fall into the "Okay" range as a result.
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