USS Bright Idea
Troubled Monk Brewery
- From:
- Troubled Monk Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 1.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 07, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 25, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
355ml can, a Black Pilsner - another collaboration with a Red Deer radio station, bar, and a touring Canadian rock band, this time USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker). If you say so.
This beer pours a clear, orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of random rocky promontory lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted cereal malt, some gritty nuttiness, a bit of earthy lager yeast, and some plain leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some free-range char, medium-dark cocoa powder, pithy bar-top nuts, fading estery yeast, and more understated leafy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, as that wet ashiness kind of makes more than a minor dent in the surface sheen here. It finishes off-dry, with the toasted malt and nutty notes carrying the lingering day.
Overall - yeah, if you just handed a glass of this to me, and asked what I thought it was, I would have initially gone with a Nut Brown Ale, and then after a spell, perhaps a Schwarzbier. There's not much that resembles the crisp and hoppy character of a Pilsner in this offering. It's not bad, just not what one might have been expecting.
Jun 27, 2018This beer pours a clear, orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of random rocky promontory lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted cereal malt, some gritty nuttiness, a bit of earthy lager yeast, and some plain leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some free-range char, medium-dark cocoa powder, pithy bar-top nuts, fading estery yeast, and more understated leafy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, as that wet ashiness kind of makes more than a minor dent in the surface sheen here. It finishes off-dry, with the toasted malt and nutty notes carrying the lingering day.
Overall - yeah, if you just handed a glass of this to me, and asked what I thought it was, I would have initially gone with a Nut Brown Ale, and then after a spell, perhaps a Schwarzbier. There's not much that resembles the crisp and hoppy character of a Pilsner in this offering. It's not bad, just not what one might have been expecting.
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