On the tenth day of Beermas I poured out for me
Ten kingly pilsners
Nine ladies sighing
Eight cream ales fizzing
Seven spicy mockswans
Six stones a-hanging
Five golden caps
Four calling birds
Three speckled hens
Two flightless non-doves
And a pear cider fresh from the tree
If anybody knows how to make a pilsner, it's Central Europeans. Typically Czechs, but Germans hold their own. I had to find something lordly for the day, and kingly is pretty much the same. For me anyway. The citizen of a republic. What's going to happen with that is anybody's guess, but I don't think we'll get an actual monarchy anyway. König Pilsner will have to be as noble a drink as it can by itself.
It's a pale, fizzy lemonade color, not as bubbly as the last two. Still not a great amount of head, though. It hardly smells like anything, there's just a whiff of German beer grassiness. The bitter is full on in the taste, dying back a little and slapping the back of the tongue in the end, quite refreshing actually. I get a hint of sweet somewhere in the middle of the sip. It's a plain and simple beer, without a lot of fancy trappings and extras, a beer that is quietly proud of itself. Other beers try to say they're proud, but this one is the real thing.
Supplier: La Tienda de la Cerveza
Price: ~€2
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