Störtebeker Pilsner - Stralsunder Brauerei

beerdrifter

Germany

3.83/5  rDev +13%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Picked this up as part of a six pack sampler from the Stralsunder Brauerei. Clear golden pour with a pure white head that quickly fades with some nice lacing. Typical German Pilsner nose with a slightly sweet smell. Also slightly sweet up front in the taste, but finishes with a nice crisp, dry bitter bite. Slightly metallic but in a pleasing way. Very decent, drinkable pilsner, especially considering the price.

Serving type: bottle

05-12-2010 15:34:08 | More by beerdrifter

humulus

Sweden

3.33/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25

Appearance: light yellow and clear with a two finger high foam, leaving barely no traces on the glass.

Smell: a very fresh smell of grass and apricot. A slight rubbery tone as well.

Taste: starts out rather sweet, but hop bitterness gets more and more pronounced the more you drink. It's got a buttery note to it.

Mouthfeel: rather thin, but the carbonation is high and makes it very refreshing.

Overall: It's a pretty decent pilsner. It will not rock your world, but neither will it disappoint you.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2013 12:41:11 | More by humulus

bark

Sweden

3.36/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

The colour is yellow (5 EBC), the finger thick white compact head sinks quickly, leaving no lacing.

The smell is malty and semi-sweet with some hints of corn, butter and mild herbal hops. Some clean bitterness in the background. Hints of summer flowers. No alcohol.

The taste is clean with distinct yet mild bitterness. Herbal-flowery hops, hints of fresh butter. Medium body. The aftertaste got some French loaf, sweet candy and a growing very clean bitterness. Some alcohol and quiet a lot of sweetness in the finish.

The carbonation is strong, the many small bubbles smooth. The liquid is semi-light and just a little sticky.

If I am to judge this beer as a Pilsener from Northern Germany, it is too sweet and not enough bitter – it reminds more of the pilseners that the Danes brew. As a pale lager in general, it isn’t too bad.

Serving type: bottle

05-01-2013 14:31:19 | More by bark

stevoj

Germany

3.25/5  rDev -4.1%

02-11-2012 21:55:05 | More by stevoj

StJamesGate

New York

3.65/5  rDev +7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Pale straw with piles of lumpy snow white head that trails. Nose is corn silk and faint cat piss.
Cut hay and sourdough bread crust with grassy hops that have hint of anise. Touch of cumin in the finish and prickly yellow plum skin linger.
Crisp, light,a bit thin but very soft.

A bit lightweight, but nothing really out of place, except maybe short on the bitterness. There's not a lot of love for pilseners on BA. Non-challenging, which you want sometimes.

Serving type: bottle

11-25-2011 22:16:59 | More by StJamesGate

dasenebler

Maine

3.43/5  rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

.5L, best before 9/8/11.

Pours a clear, bubbly gold with a fantastic, pillowy head. Retains effortlessly at one-finger, textbook lacing.

The aroma has some nice herbal and flowery hop notes.

The flavor is basic, with a light graininess more than balanced by a dry and woody hop bitterness. The hop flavor is above-average here, but this Pils is not particularly clean, and there's a bit of vegetable (pea-like) flavor. The mouthfeel is effervescent and the finish is bitter.

Decent Pils here with good hop flavor. Somewhere along the lines of a KöPi, though not as clean, and a Jever, though not as dry. Drinkable.

Serving type: bottle

05-15-2011 17:20:25 | More by dasenebler

crossovert

Wisconsin

3.35/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Found a mix-pack of these beers at Penny.

500ml bottle MHB: 16.11.11.

It pours a standard Pils gold with a foamy white head that leaves some pretty nice lacing.

The smell is sharp and herbal, with a bit of dankiness and some alcoholic fruitiness. A light bready malt presence rounds it out.

The flavor is pleasant enough. The malt is rather thin, producing a bit of watery bread taste with a hint of sweetness and a hint of daicetyl in the inish. But the hops are ample, in the North-German style, with plenty of herbal bitterness, though not a huge ton.

It will probably satisfy a lot of American palates, to me though it is just barely above average.

Serving type: bottle

05-09-2011 16:33:52 | More by crossovert

hotzenklotz

Germany

3.9/5  rDev +15%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Very standard German Pilsner from the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Pours a clean yellow beer with nice white and foamy head.
It has no strong smell but there is a little bit of pale malt character to it.
The beer tastes really nice. It is nothing out of the ordinary considering German Pilsners, but a good example of it. There are hints of Pilsner malt characterics and a few hop aromas. The bitterness is firm but at no time overwhelming.
I enjoyed this Pislner a great deal and would not mind drinking a few of these. Cheers.

Serving type: bottle

01-30-2011 18:34:34 | More by hotzenklotz

czfreeman

Michigan

4.1/5  rDev +20.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Had this brew next in my mixed six pack following the 1402 Pils-Keller bier. pours a lighter,clear golden tone. Lighter in apperance than the 1402, light carbonation, medium head. Good-standard Pilsner apperance.
Aromatics musty grain, sour fruits, biscuit, citrus, pepper, toasted grain, not super intense, but solid.
Flavor is light years ahead of the aroma. A little sweet at first, but subsequent sips reveal biscuit, grains, cereal, sweet candied citrus, a touch of pepper, pineapple, overall leans heavily in the sweet-grain hand.
I actually really like this beer. The previous reviews were pretty shabby, but this Pils exibits a heavy hand with maltiness balanced by a well balanced carbonation and spiciness. It packs quite mouthfull for for 4.8%, considering most U.S. 4.8% beers.../Enjoyed it, a little pricey, but nice German "craft" experience.

Serving type: bottle

09-18-2010 20:43:22 | More by czfreeman

Sunnanek

Sweden

3.78/5  rDev +11.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

A: Pour is clear golden with only little small bubbles in the liquid. The large white creamy head sinks slowly leaving a nice crater and rich lacings.

S: Grain, and somewhat sweet malt. Citric notes and bitter hops. Basic German Pilsener.

T: Taste is a bit less sweet than the smell. The bitter hops are stronger in taste and the sweetness in the malt is a bit held back. Faint citric notes. The taste is a lot better than the smell.

M: Aftertaste is just as long as you want it to be in a German Pilsener and holds only nice bitterness. Body is medium and carbonation isn't to offensive.

D: After reading the other review on this beer - I must say; I'm surprised how good this one is. Next time in Germany - I'm picking up a whole case.

Serving type: bottle

08-12-2010 18:05:36 | More by Sunnanek

DerBayer

Germany

2.35/5  rDev -30.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

This one is the "1408"'s ugly little brother. It kind of looks like a Pils when poured but without the magnificent head. The smell and tayste are also faintly Pils-like but without the bitter punch and soft malty finish which epitomises the style.

Easy enough to drink when cold that s the best I can say about it now.

Serving type: bottle

08-02-2010 12:04:50 | More by DerBayer

sfprint

Germany

2.33/5  rDev -31.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

A: Enormous foamy head. Foamy as in a cross between the expanding foam you use for insulation and sea foam. Clear, highly carbonated, very thin pee yellow.

S: Strong sandy malt, that I associate with German Pilsners.

T: Sweet for a pilsner, not to my liking, but not necessarily gross. Subdued flavor, but the sweetness sits on tongue. Sweet malt.

M: Soft and not special.

O: It's not bad, I just find it too sweet, and therefore relatively unpleasant.

Serving type: bottle

07-23-2010 23:36:21 | More by sfprint