Spaten Pils

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Clear yellow with good white foam head, lacing. Aroma is like a good Germany pilsener, taste is likelwise, nice hoppy. Aftertaste is dry, longer lasting. (Yaroslavl 201304)

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours a straw yellow color with a small white head and weak lacings. The aroma is semi sweet malt, with grass and some bitter hops. The taste is noble hops with a mild sweetness to the malt along with some faint citric notes in the back. The mouthfeel is light and carbonation rather rich. Aftertaste stays for some time, holding nice bitterness.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

A pretty good beer. A very slightly grainy german lager here. Pours golden with a frothy head. Tastes like it looks. Good and thick. A thirst quincher for sure.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

pretty good for a bottled pilsner...has all the aspects i was looking for, but wasn't exceptional. clean and crisp. what more can you ask for? good beer on a hot day.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Is the foil over the cap supposed to make this upscale and indicate a premium brew? Pours a clear golden/yellow with a thin white head. Aroma and flavor are the usual pilsner malty/hoppy balance. Crisp, clean mouthfeel. A good pils.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

I can't believe I've never rated this beer. From about 1995-1998 this was my go to choice of beer during the hot months. A very easy to drink, easy to enjoy beer that goes down well on it's own, or with common, every day foods. I figured I'd grab a bottle during a run to the store and see if it holds up to the past 10 years worth of beer drinking. Light grassy hops in the aroma with a touch of bready yeast and grains. Superb appearance....clear, golden yellow, fluffy head with nice lacing. Clean, crisp mouthfeel without any overcarbonation. A slightly grassy, herbal flavor with just enough yeast and malt to notice. Fantastic summertime beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Bottle Date of August 2008; Sampled February 2008
A vigorous pour produces a four-finger thick, pale, off-white colored head that leaves a fairly amount of lacing as it slowly recedes with a volcanic plateau in the middle of my glass. The beer is a brilliantly clear full gold color. Grassy, herbal hop notes mix with a touch of honey-like malt and a finish of soda cracker grain character. If you dig around a bi more fresh crushed grain aromas, notes similar to fresh bread crumb and a definite, fresh cut herbal note.

A crisp, hop biting bitterness is noticeable as soon as the beer hits my tongue. This bitterness continues throughout the flavor profile into a long dry finish. Slightly grassy, most definitely herbal with even a bit of lemon zest flavor, the hop character is certainly the defining character of this beer. The malt plays a supporting role here, but is very clean with just a touch of sweet grain flavor in the middle, and a dry, grain-like, bready finish that lingers on in the mouth. Light bodied and easy drinking, though it does have a light heft to it that helps the malt stick to the mouth a bit.

This is a nice quaffing beer; it is a great example of a German Pils; crisp hop and malt character with a solid hop bitterness. Certainly not the most intriguing beer in the world, but there is something about it that just hits the spot. Purchased: Plaza Liquors, Tucson AZ

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Not a bad beer. Sampled at Oktoberfest in San Francisco, and after a few franzekaners and Spaten Oktoberfests i was a little out of it. It pours light brown with a decent head on it. Goes down smooth.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

In my opinion this is a middle of the road beer that is over priced versus other comparable beers. The few times I've been served it it had no head and left a bad after taste.

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

Pale golden color with a brief thin head. Aroma was predominantly malty. Flavor starts out hoppy at the front and finishes with a strong malt backdrop. The aftertaste was definitely bitter and long lasting. No real problems with this beer, decent/average in all respects.