Pitter Patter
Mile Wide Beer Co.

16oz can from Shrubber85. Pale golden, light haze, small white head. Bready, grainy aroma, notes of lemon. Taste features a lovely pillowy malty body, full french bread flavors, a light citrusy edge. Overall wonderful feel in this.

Dog Days are here again. And Mile Wide brewers have made a beer for just the occasion. A Norther German-styled Pilsner that's meant to beat the heat and quench the thirst in these hottest days of the year.

Bubbly, crisp and refreshing, the slightly hazy Pitter Patter casts a color of pale straw on the eye while topping off with a foamy white cap. As aromas of fresh baking bread, light fruit, herbal scents and a slight suggestion of raw grain must, the aromas are generally mild and slightly hop balanced. Starting off crisp with malt sweetness, its bready, honeysuckle and shortbread character leads the way on the early palate.

As the sweetness starts to lift, the brisk carbonation carries away the grain sweetness, the hops transition from a floral and flowery upstart and into an herbal grassiness for balance. Nuanced flavors of apple and lemon come with a slight sulfur character for an earthy character that soon leads to a snappy, peppery and pleasantly grassy hop bitterness late in taste.

Medium light in body, the generally dry and malty beer is the same familiar taste of lager that most of us have tasted our whole lives. Fuller in flavor and with more depth in taste than those industrial light lagers, this more authentic Northern German styled lager is just the grown up version of beer with more sophistication and grace.