Captain's Log German Style Pilsner
Caravel Craft Brewery

 

 

 

 

650ml bottle - great to see this new Calgarian brewery packaging their product so we up north can have a go at it from the comfort of our own homes!

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random splattered and chunky lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of bready and grainy pale malt, some muddled pome and citrus fruity notes, a hint of petrol fumes, and understated leafy, weedy, and grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a further breakfast cereal sweetness, subtle yeasty esters, further ethereal gasohol, still hard to parse domestic fruit rind, and more earthy, musty, and floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad out of the ol' basement beer fridge. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as the biscuity and crackery nature of the malt takes hold of the lingering state.

Overall - this is a fairly well-made version of the style, nice and crisp and rounded in its bearing, with a few shout outs to the old-school. Easy to drink, and in multiple iterations, I would imagine, should I ever get the chance while down in Cowtown.