Pour With Vigor
Second Line Brewing
- From:
- Second Line Brewing
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- Czech / Bohemian Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.26 | pDev: 17.48%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 22, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 17, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This Czech style pilsner made with European pilsner malt and Saaz hops honors Charle Bamforth, the "Pope of Foam". Charlie reminds beer lovers to pour with vigor to create an aesthetically pleasing and aromatic head of foam.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.53/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.53/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Sixer of cans run $9.49 USD plus tax at most fairly priced grocers in New Orleans, LA.
APPEARANCE: Pours a clear yellow-copper with an off-white but not all that robust head. Head height is ~2cm but it dies within a couple minutes, leaving wisps of lacing on the sides of my shaker pint as it quickly fades. Boasts superb clarity; this is obviously filtered true to style. Not the most vibrant but it seems well carbonated and is generally enticing.
AROMA: Grain husk, muted pilsner malt, 2-row, dry starchiness, minerals, doughy yeast.
Not finding any Saaz hop spiciness or generic Noble hop grassiness at all. The doughiness and starchiness of it suggest a problematic pilsner, and nothing about this seems dialed in with respect to residual sugars...no way they used multidecoction when making this, and it doesn't seem to be authentically hopped for the intended style. Suggests a troubled attempt at a Czech pilsner, landing more in Euro pale lager territory by my estimation.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Dry, starchy, doughy, and even a bit stale with a mineral-forward finish that really turns me off to it (and is strangely bitter as well). Not dialed in at all. Lacks any life to its malty flavours; this fundamentally fails to showcase pilsner malts well at all, but then at least a sort of flat stale lifeless pilsner malt flavour is present - unlike Czech hops, which are straight-up absent. I get no Saaz spiciness at all, nor any Noble hop grassiness. Just old bread dough-redolent yeast that feels like it's on its last legs and they ought to have stopped propagating it generations ago. One of the most poorly attenuated attempts at a pilsner I've tried in years.
Smooth, dry, unrefreshing, stale, well-carbonated. Not texturally compelling for an attempt at a pilsner.
Rather imbalanced.
OVERALL: This doesn't accomplish what a pilsner should on really any level whatsoever, to be frank. I mean I'd quaff it while eating Thai I accidentally ordered too spicy, but that's about the extent of its appeal. Borders on cardboardy with a taste and texture that aren't anywhere near the ballpark of the intended style...appallingly off the mark (even for Second Line) but drinkable if you completely ignore style conventions.
Low C- (2.53) / BELOW AVERAGE
Sep 17, 2020APPEARANCE: Pours a clear yellow-copper with an off-white but not all that robust head. Head height is ~2cm but it dies within a couple minutes, leaving wisps of lacing on the sides of my shaker pint as it quickly fades. Boasts superb clarity; this is obviously filtered true to style. Not the most vibrant but it seems well carbonated and is generally enticing.
AROMA: Grain husk, muted pilsner malt, 2-row, dry starchiness, minerals, doughy yeast.
Not finding any Saaz hop spiciness or generic Noble hop grassiness at all. The doughiness and starchiness of it suggest a problematic pilsner, and nothing about this seems dialed in with respect to residual sugars...no way they used multidecoction when making this, and it doesn't seem to be authentically hopped for the intended style. Suggests a troubled attempt at a Czech pilsner, landing more in Euro pale lager territory by my estimation.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Dry, starchy, doughy, and even a bit stale with a mineral-forward finish that really turns me off to it (and is strangely bitter as well). Not dialed in at all. Lacks any life to its malty flavours; this fundamentally fails to showcase pilsner malts well at all, but then at least a sort of flat stale lifeless pilsner malt flavour is present - unlike Czech hops, which are straight-up absent. I get no Saaz spiciness at all, nor any Noble hop grassiness. Just old bread dough-redolent yeast that feels like it's on its last legs and they ought to have stopped propagating it generations ago. One of the most poorly attenuated attempts at a pilsner I've tried in years.
Smooth, dry, unrefreshing, stale, well-carbonated. Not texturally compelling for an attempt at a pilsner.
Rather imbalanced.
OVERALL: This doesn't accomplish what a pilsner should on really any level whatsoever, to be frank. I mean I'd quaff it while eating Thai I accidentally ordered too spicy, but that's about the extent of its appeal. Borders on cardboardy with a taste and texture that aren't anywhere near the ballpark of the intended style...appallingly off the mark (even for Second Line) but drinkable if you completely ignore style conventions.
Low C- (2.53) / BELOW AVERAGE
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