Andy and I had a first taste of our Cheshire (I mean German) pilsner yesterday. We were very very pleased with the outcome.
If you remember, we had problems last year with our first lager, because we could not carbonate it properly in a keg. So this year we bottled our lager rather than kegging, calling it Coole Pilate (follow the link to find out why). Bottling, we believed, would allow greater carbonation to build up than is possible in a keg (without an explosion!).
So yesterday we tasted it:
Carbonation was excellent. The bottle gave a good hiss when opened, and it pours with fizz, leaving plenty of bubbles in the beer and a light head round the edge.
Colour is a rich golden, with very good clarity (see photo).
The aroma is crisp and hoppy.
The flavour starts with rich maltiness, but then you get hit by considerable bitterness. This is not a British lager; this is a full-on German style pils. It reminds me of the crisp bitterness you get from a Munich Helles.
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