"Check-Mate" Cask Pilsner
Loddon Brewery

- From:
- Loddon Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Czech / Bohemian Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 22, 2005
- Added:
- Aug 22, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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
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, 2005A: 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.
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