Amber Chmielowy
Browar Amber

 

 

2015: 1.86

Green bottle insta-skunk. Bright clarity, pale gold, long lasting white foam.

Smell is skunktastic, phew. Papery oxidized malt also.

Taste is overly sweet for a pils, flabby feel, slick and filmy. Bleh. Vague grassy bitterness from the advertised hops but little in the way of hop flavor. Probably past its prime, the label has no freshness date and I haven't seen it locally before. Awful and a drainpour.

Edit: 2019 bottle, skunky but not super oxidized, seems a little fresher than the last time but still a bit thin and papery. Noticeable floral noble hops and some hop bitterness.

 

500ml bottle. Bottle labelled as Amber Pils (and also as "bitter aromatic"). Pours a straw colour with a towering, frothy white head which settled reasonably and left only a trace of lacing. Very gentle aroma malt, hay and hops. Light sweetness and bitterness. Light to medium body with some fizz. Long gently bitter finish. Someone should have a word to their marketers because this doesn't fit the Pils mould nor is it particularly bitter or aromatic. That said it's very light, inoffensive but still quite drinkable.