Local Color Novi Pilsner
Liquid Manufacturing (Arlington Brewing Co.)

 

 

On a three-half-beer night of discounted micro-brewery Pumpkin Ale, Novi Pilsner and White Rascal Wheat Ale your faithful boozehound Wörtwurst is going to impart a little piece of oral history here. Well maybe it's a little bit of factual history but what you're going to get is oral history. Novi, MI is a growing city about 45 minutes northwest of downtown Detroit (this part is factual) which was named for it's mark as a railroad stop (No. 6; thus No.: number -VI: roman numeral 6). That said, I've mostly lost track of the hour or so ago when I tasted this beer. From what I remember it had a wispy off-kilter summery taste of starched shirts and underwear flapping in the breeze on the clothesline. Something you'd drink after sticking your big snout in the mud with the other piglets. It gave hints that an aftertaste should be expected but it never came, thus it wasn't too bad. Being the dustiest of the clearance bottom shelf brews I expected the least and of the 3/8 consumed it ranks 6th (if this is possible). A couple notches above average but with the knowledge that average means not spending more than 5 or 6 bucks for a six pack. 2.75 sweaty summertide armpits.