Meteor Pils

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Very light pale gold color. Medium white foamy head. Aroma is grassy, grainy and sweet. A light bodied pilsner. Malts are fruity and sweet. Very mild slightly spicy hops. Carbonation is very soft. An interesting pilsner, its hoppier than most pilsners and there is a slight vegetative/cardboard flavor that not as unpleasant as it sounds. Smooth taste. It’s a little sweet and there is a slightly unpleasant aftertaste, but it still drinkable. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

A weird 33cL green bottle, filled with a weird German-style Pilsener, from France of all places (well Alsace, which has changed hands enough times over history that the natives speak both French *and* German more often than not). Don't see it too often sold in singles on The Mainland, but when I saw it for sale while on a business trip here in Hawaii, I figured what the hell.

When I first took a sip of this very pale, rather pathetic looking beer, my first reaction was "huh? dirty?". So much so that I grabbed another hotel glass, and tried it from there. Same-same. The aroma was also nothing to marvel over, either....

After a few sips though, and the beer had some time to air out a bit, things took a turn for the better. Still a bit turgid and crude in the mouthfeel, and the hoppiness seems entirely out of wack to me. It may or may not be the typical Saaz and/or Tettnanger hop bill, but in such odd porportions, it's all askew by the time it hits your taste buds.

"Le biere du village de Hochfelden"? Well, the village of Hochfelden can keep their beer, since it's little more than an oddly unremarkable Pilsener, with enough weird left turns to confuse even a drunken racecar driver....

Music: At The Gates' "The Red In The Sky Is Ours".
//TB