AMA Pilsner
Amarcord Birra Artigianale Italiana

12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 11/11/2017. Pours slightly hazy pale golden/yellow color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance of pale malt and earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.9%. Overall this is a excellent German pilsener! All around great robustness and balance of pale malt and earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink. Perfectly balanced clean pils malts and earthy hop flavors. A little more citrusy than I expected on the hops; but a very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example regardless.