Paddle Wheel Pilsner
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 2.39%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 07, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.87/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - the name is a reference to a 'nautical disaster' in south-eastern Alberta, which just doesn't sound like it, er, holds water.
This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy disintegrating curtain lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of bready and crackery pale malt, a bit of apple and pear fruitiness, some subtle hard water flintiness, and a heady dose of leafy, citrusy, and grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some muddled pome and citrus fruity fleshiness, a hint of generic pepper mill dust, and more sassy leafy, grassy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, but for those tacky hops sort of clumsily traipsing through the metaphorical tulip patch here. It finishes trending dry, the malt going full cracker, and the hops keepin' on keepin' on.
Overall, this is a well-made and easy to drink version of the Teutonic style - and nice and bitter in its hoppy measures, that's for sure. It's good to see a few lagers coming out of all these nascent Alberta craft brewing concerns, especially the old-world, engaging kinds.
Mar 06, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy disintegrating curtain lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of bready and crackery pale malt, a bit of apple and pear fruitiness, some subtle hard water flintiness, and a heady dose of leafy, citrusy, and grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some muddled pome and citrus fruity fleshiness, a hint of generic pepper mill dust, and more sassy leafy, grassy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, but for those tacky hops sort of clumsily traipsing through the metaphorical tulip patch here. It finishes trending dry, the malt going full cracker, and the hops keepin' on keepin' on.
Overall, this is a well-made and easy to drink version of the Teutonic style - and nice and bitter in its hoppy measures, that's for sure. It's good to see a few lagers coming out of all these nascent Alberta craft brewing concerns, especially the old-world, engaging kinds.
Reviewed by Shadman from Canada (AB)
3.66/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.66/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Grab a six pack last time I stopped by the brewery to try the rye ale seasonal.
Brilliant harvest gold colour. Slightly hazy in clarity. The colour reminds me of freshly harvested barley stubble.
Well they certainly have the pilsner bitterness hammered down. Initially there's some soda cracker malts followed by some slightly annoying sweetness. But man then a wave of grassy/slightly citrusy bitterness takes a hold of the palate and does not let go. I finished my last swig several minutes ago and can still taste the bitter.
As with the sample I had at the brewery opening this batch seemed to go flatish in a hurry, leaving the final 1/3 of the can rather watery.
Overall I liked it and think it's a good domestic take on the style. I wonder how well it will do in the local establishments in Medicine Hat where a lot of the inhabitants cheer for a green clad football team and think Pilsner is a beer that has rabbits on the label
Oct 02, 2016Brilliant harvest gold colour. Slightly hazy in clarity. The colour reminds me of freshly harvested barley stubble.
Well they certainly have the pilsner bitterness hammered down. Initially there's some soda cracker malts followed by some slightly annoying sweetness. But man then a wave of grassy/slightly citrusy bitterness takes a hold of the palate and does not let go. I finished my last swig several minutes ago and can still taste the bitter.
As with the sample I had at the brewery opening this batch seemed to go flatish in a hurry, leaving the final 1/3 of the can rather watery.
Overall I liked it and think it's a good domestic take on the style. I wonder how well it will do in the local establishments in Medicine Hat where a lot of the inhabitants cheer for a green clad football team and think Pilsner is a beer that has rabbits on the label
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