Crafty Shag
White Star Brewery Ltd

Bottle-conditioned "Pilsner Style Beer". It's brewed with Hersbrucker and Saaz hops, fermented at a low temp. using lager yeast, in order "to produce real lager in a bottle", so the label goes... BB 20 AUG 2006, served lightly chilled in a weizen glass.

A: pours a pale amber hue, with unsettled pieces of yeast-sediments; coming with gentle carbonation and a fast dissipating thin cap. Looking more like a bottle-conditioned bitter.
S: sweet aroma of orangey zest and a faint hint of grapefruit juice abound; restrained note of malts at the back. Not much reminds me of a lager, or indeed a pilsner, but the moderate fruity hoppyness perhaps is what the brewery is getting at to resemble something like a pilsner...
T: pretty bland upfront on the palate, gradually a hint of zesty hops is revealed, with intensifying herbal bitterness (a bit like Chinese herb soup) and a hayish, floral tinge of Saaz in the finish. Due to the yeast bits, a somewhat damp woody feel is also at present down the palate.
M&D: this is a light-bodied beer with a somewhat stale body (for a lager) and an unbalanced flavour profile, thus it can't stand for anything remotely related to a lager or indeed a pilsner. I rate it as a Euro Pale Lager here, but truly I think it's a hybrid, like an English Blond Ale/Bitter using higher proportion of foreign hops at best. Not recommended. (perhaps its cask-conditioned version without the disturbance of floating yeast bits might taste better?)