Twins/Summit Twins Pils

That’s too painful to fathom!

Picture(s) worth a 1000 words!
Damn you Summit, Twins and masses!!!
Thanks for the post!

 

I wore a bandana over my eyes during the tasting - the kids thought that was hilarious. The wife took the side by side picture before the tasting and I took the individual pics after. I didn't see the beers in the glasses until the tasting was over.

The Keller Pils enjoy by date was February 25th, but I've been unable to discern a difference in Keller Pils based on the canning date. I did the same taste test with a "fresh" can of Keller Pils and one that was past it's enjoy by date and could not pick out the fresh can. Summit seems to do an excellent job with canning and bottling and have a very stable product. I've certainly experienced a different situation with other breweries, especially with crowlers, but that's essentially an entirely different ballgame.

I'd be very interested to hear from others, especially if they can find more recently canned Keller Pils. I was unable to find anything that wasn't past the enjoy by date, which may be a result of the rebranding.

 

As I commented before, over years of drinking Keller Pils, I've had a number of them that were clear. This is not a "hazy" beer; it is an unfiltered beer.

 

You are the only one using the term hazy

 

Maybe this will clear things up:

It tastes like Keller Pils to me (which is a big relief). The can is dated EB 8/12/22.

Also, cheers to Summit for opting to include the perforations to make it easy to remove the sleeves before recycling.

 

Got a pic of the beer in the glass? The one I opened was dated EB 08/21/22 and didn't have a Keller Pils can under the label.

I want to believe. I really do.

 

I am somehow mildly invested in this topic, while simultaneously not caring one iota about it.

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The Plot thickens. Well? It's not worth ruffling feathers over a Summit Pils folks.
But maybe some others should test the beers and check there cans. Then they can decide for themselves if the beer has changed. It also could be that Summit was using up some of there remaining Keller pils can stock. Some cans could be bare or keller underneath. Why would Summit not use the Keller cans underneath with the can situation as it. Plus if there using up the old keller cans it's a sign that the old keller Name/label/packaging may not be coming back soon if ever.

 

Hi, me again...

I really needed to know what the EB 08/12/22 batch was like, so of course I bought some.

EB 08/21/22 batch on the left, EB 08/12/22 batch on the right.

I did notice a slight color difference, so I switched them around in case it was caused by the background or lighting.

The EB 08/12/22 batch does seem to be a touch darker. There may be a slight difference in flavor between these two batches, but I didn't taste them blind, so I may have been influenced by that Keller Pils can under the label.

 

Yep, the EB 08/21/22 one is a blank can under the Twins Pils label. I do like the zipper label as @pandera mentioned in his post. Those are slick.

 

Sorry, I'm a little late with this. As you posted, it does pour dang clear. The taste and aroma are just as I remember from Keller Pils though.

 

It has been out for awhile and has received many ratings here so it is interesting to compare the two beers. Keller Pils has a 92 rating and Twins Pils has a 83. If it is the exact same beer what is the perceived difference? Do people just hate that the Twins have disappointed us for the last 30 years? I have bought a lot of Twins Pils so obviously I still enjoy the beer.