New Beer: Trumer Pils

I mean to get to this a little sooner, but alas, life and circumstances. Anyway....

Several things before I actually talk about the new beer....

I am approximately a third of the way through my list...hopefully I'll get some free time tomorrow or over the weekend to finish that up and get it on here.

So right now, I am feeling confident that I can accomplish this goal. It will however, take a considerable amount of time I think. Haha. I've got something like 700 to go, and even counting tasters and such at festivals and breweries, that will take some time and some money. Neither of which I have a ton of. In a perfect world, I'd be getting reviews of new stuff up here all the time, but I doubt it is going to happen that way. I came to that realization on my way home from class yesterday. I do, however, want to actually succeed in keeping this blog up, and to do that I'll need other things to talk about. So I made a list of other fun and interesting beer related things to post about in the meantime. This will include reviews of past favorites, top 5 or 10 lists, recipes, links to other cool sites and blogs, and nerdier things like chemistry and alpha acids and such. I guess today's disclaimer will be that I am not a brew chemist, and definitely not an expert. Anything I say is said with good faith, but might not be entirely correct. It is probably close though....I'll never be intentionally misleading. :)

On to Trumer Pils!

How appropriate that my first post is a lager. I freely admit that my general aversion to lagers is probably my biggest shortcoming as a beer drinker. Generally speaking, I don't really like them that much, and I would say that something like 98% of my list is comprised of ales. I plan to work on this, very seriously I may add, throughout this endeavor. What better place to start than the beginning?

New Beer #1!!!

Name: Trumer Pils
Style: German Pilsener
ABV: 4.8%
IBU: 26
Serving vessel: Pint glass

Yep, it is a pilsener alright. Haha. But really, I do feel like if a person is going to purposely drink lagers all day, it should be something like this.  Crisp, slightly sweet and slightly bitter, it goes down easy. It maintained no head excepting an extraordinarily thin layer on the top, very little lacing on the glass.
I do regret that I don't have much else to say about it....my taste for lagers is in need of serious refinement. I am hoping it will get better. Trumer Pils does get an endorsement from me though, I would definitely drink it again. To give anyone who may need it a reference point, other European pilseners include Stella Artois (Belgian) and Heineken (Dutch). I think this one is better than those two, though I do like them as well.

Due to my lovely co-workers (co-volunteers, really...) having little objection to having our meetings in bars, I actually got to add three beers to the list Tuesday evening. In addition to Trumer Pils, I added Green Flash's Imperial IPA, and Double Mountian's IRA (India Red). I guess right now I'll mention that time allowing, I'll review ever new thing I try. However, when I try a few new things in one night, I may not get to it....thought I would talk a bit about the pilsener because I needed to. Haha. Here is a very brief impression of the IIPA and IRA...

IRA- As you may have guessed, this is a marriage of an IPA and a red. It tasted like it too....with all the hop of an IPA and the slight maltiness and color of the red. You could taste every bit of the 65 IBU but wasn't nearly as harsh as one might expect. A good choice, definitely. It will probably not ever end up being any sort of session beer for me, but I did like it and would drink it again.

IIPA- I didn't love this. It was OK. I like me some bitter beer, but the 101 IBU paired with the 9.4% ABV made this relatively tough to drink. I realize that when one orders an imperial anything, this is the risk you take. I'm glad I did, it was good enough, but I am also glad it came in a small glass. I've had imperial IPAs before, and like them generally...this one was tough for me. I can't say for sure that I'd order it again. Worth a shot if you like big beers though.

Think that is it today....In the meantime, Cheers y'all!