Hoppy Pils
Bent Stick Brewing Co.

650ml bottle - they seem to have caught the lager bug at this brewery of late, or perhaps they just have more time on their hands? If so, maybe they could have determined whether this is a Pilsner, or a Kellerbier, eh?

This beer pours a hazy, very pale golden straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat fizzy bone-white head, which leaves a few instances of streaky coral reef lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of grainy and gritty cereal malt, biscuity white crackers, some dried orange and lemon rind, a hint of old-school gasohol, and fairly crisp earthy, floral, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, soaked saltine crackers, muddled domestic citrus peel, estery petrol notes, and more peppy leafy, weedy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly innocuous in its plebeian frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, as the hops appear to be of the agreeable sort at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the crackery malt and zingy Teutonic-leaning hops deeming it so.

Overall - this is a fairly well-rendered version of a traditional style not even mentioned on the label. Yup, I'm getting the impression of a pleasant example of the Bohemian school of Pils, which is typically hoppy in its own right. So kudos on getting something correct, if only inadvertently.