"Check-Mate" Cask Pilsner
Loddon Brewery

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Loddon Brewery
 
England, United Kingdom
Style:
Czech / Bohemian Pilsner
ABV:
4.8%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.5 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 22, 2005
Added:
Aug 22, 2005
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England

3.5/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Tasted this beer on cask at the Evening Star, Brighton recently. I suppose I secured the first pint from the new barrel right after Beerymatt got it ready. Another "Real-Lager", or lager served from cask, emerging in a new wave of British brewerys' attempts of creating real-alternatives to a large number of bland, brewed-under-license, fizzy lagers.

A: this pint comes in a clear, pale golden hue, with a delicate, fine layer of tiny bubbles... beautiful lacing is left along the way.
S: refreshing aroma of very mild malts, plus a little hint of grass and red-apple peel... soft and delicate Saaz, like a lesser version of authentic Pilsner.
T: lightly banana-flavoured candyish and banana oil plus faint orangey flavour on the palate~~ quite interesting for a "Pilsner"... smooth mouthfeel of malts and lively medium-dryish, grassy hops plus some zesty flavour sustains, while the aftertaste sees a very very soft, bready malt flavour running underneath along with a tinge of floral hoppyness.
M&D: overall the mouthfeel is very mild and slightly flat for a fresh barrel, or is it just about right for a real ale but kind of interesting for a lager? The hop body is quite restrained, or just enough to balance the equally restrained flavour of malts. All in all this is an interesting cask brew, if not a Pilsner IMO, worth trying at least once, albeit much milder than Harviestoun's Schiehallion.
Aug 22, 2005