Lösch-Zwerg Würzig
Brauerei Josef Schimpfle
- From:
- Brauerei Josef Schimpfle
- Germany
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
Ranked #201 - ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- 76
Ranked #38,386 - Avg:
- 3.14 | pDev: 17.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 18
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 20, 2025
- Added:
- Apr 26, 2005
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 9
SCORE
76
Okay
76
Okay
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Ratings by DOCRW:
Rated by DOCRW from Kentucky
2.93/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Oct 29, 2015
2.93/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Oct 29, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by mikeg67 from New Jersey
2.46/5 rDev -21.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.46/5 rDev -21.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Bottle. Pours golden with white head. Aroma is grassy hops and bready malt. Body is medium and crisp. Taste is of grain and grassy hops. Long dry finish. Crappy brew.
Aug 20, 2025
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.89/5 rDev +23.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev +23.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Brauerei Josef Schimpfle “ Lösch-Zwerg Würzig”
,33L brown glass bottle coded “mindestens haltbar bis: 28.02.22 12:35”. Sampled on 28.09.21
€,79 @ REWE, Hürth-Hermülheim, DE
Look: Clear straw gold body beneath a full head of bright white foam that holds well and leaves some nice lacing about the glass.
Smell: Bready malt with limited herbal hops.
Taste: Sweetish and bready malt with a light touch of apple and herbal, spicy, and floral hops. The hop flavors aren’t strong by U.S. standards but certainly by German ones. A firm bitterness anchors it and it finishes dry and hoppy with herbal and spicy notes lingering.
Feel: Light-medium to medium bodied with a fine-bubbled, seemingly natural moderate carbonation the leaves it gently zesty at first and then smooth once warmed in the mouth.
Overall: This is a charming and somewhat interesting helles with a bit more character than usual due to the aroma hops. Worth trying.
Sep 28, 2021,33L brown glass bottle coded “mindestens haltbar bis: 28.02.22 12:35”. Sampled on 28.09.21
€,79 @ REWE, Hürth-Hermülheim, DE
Look: Clear straw gold body beneath a full head of bright white foam that holds well and leaves some nice lacing about the glass.
Smell: Bready malt with limited herbal hops.
Taste: Sweetish and bready malt with a light touch of apple and herbal, spicy, and floral hops. The hop flavors aren’t strong by U.S. standards but certainly by German ones. A firm bitterness anchors it and it finishes dry and hoppy with herbal and spicy notes lingering.
Feel: Light-medium to medium bodied with a fine-bubbled, seemingly natural moderate carbonation the leaves it gently zesty at first and then smooth once warmed in the mouth.
Overall: This is a charming and somewhat interesting helles with a bit more character than usual due to the aroma hops. Worth trying.
Rated by Manta200 from Kentucky
3.25/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
From Olli during my visit in Germany
Aug 26, 2021
Reviewed by drmeto from Germany
3.07/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.07/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
L:
-pours a clear golden with a medium, foamy,white head
-medium carbonation visible
S:
-oranges,cooked vegetables,grainy,honey
T:
-malty,spicy,grainy,oranges
-finishes dry
F:
-medium carbonation
-light to medium body
O:
A very average bavarian Helles.
Jan 28, 2019-pours a clear golden with a medium, foamy,white head
-medium carbonation visible
S:
-oranges,cooked vegetables,grainy,honey
T:
-malty,spicy,grainy,oranges
-finishes dry
F:
-medium carbonation
-light to medium body
O:
A very average bavarian Helles.
Reviewed by smcolw from Massachusetts
3.8/5 rDev +21%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev +21%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Moderate head which settles during the tasting to a single layer of bubbles which provides a couple of minor bubbles on the glass. The color is like straw. Clear.
A rather neutral nose with a very little pale malt aroma. Little else.
Pretty nice creaminess on the initial taste. This beer is much more full in body than I expected. The taste brings a decent hop kick near the swallow. The aftertaste, while brief, is well-balanced. The carbonation feels muted because of the body but is probably average.
Jun 10, 2017A rather neutral nose with a very little pale malt aroma. Little else.
Pretty nice creaminess on the initial taste. This beer is much more full in body than I expected. The taste brings a decent hop kick near the swallow. The aftertaste, while brief, is well-balanced. The carbonation feels muted because of the body but is probably average.
Reviewed by tuesunsommiel from New York
3.14/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.14/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Good but not great. Probably good on a hot day, not worth writing a whole review on. Better than PBR, worse than a more decent lager (i.e. Heineken). The best part probably is the weird pop-top lid that it has instead of a cap.
Jun 18, 2016
Reviewed by aleigator from Germany
3.03/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours a bright, golden color with a dense white head, leaving back a small ring of lacing.
Smells of floral, herbacious hops among toffee malts. Provides a faint but pleasant lemon crispness, settling onto the hop foundation.
Has an unusual low carbonation for a Pils, with a nice aqueous softness to it, leading to refreshing, hop accompanied finish.
Tastes of straw, hay, white bread malts and a toffee peak, gently entangled into herbal hops. Finishes with a bubbly, sweeter maltiness providing a faint hop balance.
Quite sweet, while managing to produce a decent hoppiness at the beginning. Easy drinking as for its light body, while not as refreshing as expected, due to the prominent toffee flavor.
May 13, 2016Smells of floral, herbacious hops among toffee malts. Provides a faint but pleasant lemon crispness, settling onto the hop foundation.
Has an unusual low carbonation for a Pils, with a nice aqueous softness to it, leading to refreshing, hop accompanied finish.
Tastes of straw, hay, white bread malts and a toffee peak, gently entangled into herbal hops. Finishes with a bubbly, sweeter maltiness providing a faint hop balance.
Quite sweet, while managing to produce a decent hoppiness at the beginning. Easy drinking as for its light body, while not as refreshing as expected, due to the prominent toffee flavor.
Rated by TwiggyCZ from Czechia
2.31/5 rDev -26.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.31/5 rDev -26.4%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Nothing special, medium-light body with low aroma.
Dec 30, 2014
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
2.8/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.8/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Crystal clear golden color with short lived white head. Aroma has sweet malt, a bit of honey and some medicinal alcohol notes in the background. Taste follows with bready malts, sweetish at first but gets more bitter towards the finish with some spicy and earthy flavors. Medium body and carbonation with dry aftertaste.
May 21, 2013
Reviewed by Raven3464 from Japan
2.89/5 rDev -8%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.89/5 rDev -8%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Appearance: The beer pours an amazingly clear, straw body. The head is small but retention is good.
Smell: A hint of hops is overtaken by a cracker and sweet malt aroma. There is nothing complex about this beer but the unpleasant sour aroma I have noticed in other Euro Lagers is not as noticeable.
Taste: It mainly follows the nose but there is a surprising hop bite at the end that is pleasantly unexpected. It is nothing like say, an IPA but there are more hops present than I have experienced with other Euro Lagers.
Mouth feel: Light bodied but not too watery. Carbonation is extremely light.
Overall: To be perfectly honest, I have never been too fond of Euro Lagers; they just lack personality in my opinion. This brew did not change my mind but it did make me realize there are some drinkable brands within the genre.
Dec 25, 2012Smell: A hint of hops is overtaken by a cracker and sweet malt aroma. There is nothing complex about this beer but the unpleasant sour aroma I have noticed in other Euro Lagers is not as noticeable.
Taste: It mainly follows the nose but there is a surprising hop bite at the end that is pleasantly unexpected. It is nothing like say, an IPA but there are more hops present than I have experienced with other Euro Lagers.
Mouth feel: Light bodied but not too watery. Carbonation is extremely light.
Overall: To be perfectly honest, I have never been too fond of Euro Lagers; they just lack personality in my opinion. This brew did not change my mind but it did make me realize there are some drinkable brands within the genre.
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