Quick, somebody tell me what a Dutch-style Pilsener is. Peter’s Brand has been here before, it is a “Dutch” Pilsner by Union Export Brewery in Holland, but is produced for them by Hohbrauhaus Wolters out of Braunschweig, Germany.
Well, if I was blind folded, this brew would have me thinking more along the lines of a Kolsch or even a Helles. It has slightly more fruitiness than I’m used to in a Pilsener, er Pilsner. There it is again, that Northern German spelling. Pils already! It also seems to have a touch of something else. If I was home brewing this, I’d say a touch of Cara Munich in it, or maybe a higher mashing temperature. Something is giving it a slightly maltier profile, most of the Pilsners I’ve been drinking lately are definitely hop-forward and drier beers. This one less so.
I really can’t cluster this beer in with the other Pilsners I’ve been drinking. It’s just a different beer, maltier, less head, less lacing, more mellow, possibly even like a few of the Czech versions from a couple months ago. Dutch like the Czechs? Let me re-think that! …. Prost!