Double Agent
Eavesdrop Brewery
- From:
- Eavesdrop Brewery
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 3.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 28, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 15, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with Old Bust Head Brewing Company
This Pulsner is straw in color, and light bodied. Notes of melon, grapefruit peel, and biscuit. Finish crisp and clean.
This Pulsner is straw in color, and light bodied. Notes of melon, grapefruit peel, and biscuit. Finish crisp and clean.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.92/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
3.92/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
On tap at brewery:
Okay, this is a style bending beer. Style as of this review is a German Pilsner, but it’s really a hooped up American Pilsner, but at 5% (so not a DIPL or similar).
So, how to rate it...
I’ll go with a traditional Pilsner with an open mind towards hoppiness.
Pretty clear light golden with a head that isn’t grand in size but lasts and laces.
Nose is a lot more like an old school IPA - low on malt and heavy on (in this case) grassy to piney hops. Taste follows, with a clean, crackery malt opening that basically plays emcee to introduce the hops that make up the beer. A classic American IPA hop profile of light grass, pine-heavy with a little grapefruit with pith influence.
A clean AIPA and this beer have a bunch in common, and that to me is a good thing. I don’t think if you go into this as a German Pilsner, you’ll be happy - though I also don’t think you’ll hate it. It lacks the Pilsner malt bready aspect, which is debatable whether the brewer wanted it.
In the end, I liked it for it’s one claim I saw from the brewery: “a dry-hopped Pilsner”
Oct 28, 2018Okay, this is a style bending beer. Style as of this review is a German Pilsner, but it’s really a hooped up American Pilsner, but at 5% (so not a DIPL or similar).
So, how to rate it...
I’ll go with a traditional Pilsner with an open mind towards hoppiness.
Pretty clear light golden with a head that isn’t grand in size but lasts and laces.
Nose is a lot more like an old school IPA - low on malt and heavy on (in this case) grassy to piney hops. Taste follows, with a clean, crackery malt opening that basically plays emcee to introduce the hops that make up the beer. A classic American IPA hop profile of light grass, pine-heavy with a little grapefruit with pith influence.
A clean AIPA and this beer have a bunch in common, and that to me is a good thing. I don’t think if you go into this as a German Pilsner, you’ll be happy - though I also don’t think you’ll hate it. It lacks the Pilsner malt bready aspect, which is debatable whether the brewer wanted it.
In the end, I liked it for it’s one claim I saw from the brewery: “a dry-hopped Pilsner”
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