Class is in session.
I studied beer in college as well, although perhaps my curriculum was not as formal as the one at the Niagara College Teaching Brewery. Looking back, I recall my program was more focused on sampling.* But NC are educating the next hop crop of budding brewers and the college has a full range of beers in their Beer 101 series. They also have some far more eclectic elixirs, student projects that perhaps I will sample eventually, when I get the nerve to try an NC Triple for example. But today it’s back to basics with a Beer 101 pilsner.
This beer lesson on a can has the info you need to know to get a passing grade in Beer 101. But does this beer in the can have the taste it takes to make the COMDB super suds grade? Time for a class in a glass.
Super see-through clear and golden, minimal froth, no headmaster required. The aroma is fresh light malt with a touch of grain. First taste is slight fruit, slight fizz with the malt in the background, and according to Darwin it will evolve. That Darwin was on to something because sure enough, it does evolve. The fruit fades, the fizz is hizztory, and what’s left is light malt no hops or bitters, easy drinking with a smooth finish. Now a touch of a pils crisp finish is auditing the course. And we are settling into a nicely flavoured easy drinking pils and I’m reminiscing about school daze again.
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