“Come together, right now, beer me”. In 1969 the Beatles were singing my song, 6 months later they split up. * According to Silversmith and Blackburn some things are just better together. I would tend to agree. There’s Lennon and McCartney, Matthews and Marner, The White Stripes, to name a few. All better together. **
This is the second collab between Silversmith and Blackburn. We enjoyed their Italian Pilsner 20 Kms Away. Now they’ve moved 9,000 kms away, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific with a West Coast Pils. West Coast pilsners are a relatively new brew type, the genre a collaboration of styles on their own. Classic pils meets IPA for some full flavoured refreshment.
We have enjoyed a few WCPs, Dominion City teamed up with Willibald and had a Pizza Party, which we were invited to. Then we checked in to the Sons of Kent‘s Motel California. Both these brews were super suds stars. Time to pour this pacific pils and see if it all comes together.
Golden and clear, with a slim slight head. The aroma is fruity tangy hoppy, this is not the old man’s pilsner.*** First taste is citrus tropical fruit with a hoppy body and a crisp pils finish, what follows is a hoppy fruit aftertaste. A busy brewski, lots going on but it does all come together. It’s almost more of a frisky pale ale, certainly a punchy Pils. One thing it is, is tasty. Another thing it is, is a big swigger, refreshing full flavoured and going down easy.
Silversmith and Blackburn have another winner on their hands with this one.
*Editor’s Comment: “Come together, right now, over me.” The Beatles October 1969 hit single “Come Together” from the Abbey Road album was a double A-Side single with George Harrison’s “Something”. Ironically, by April 1970 the band breakup was announced. Come Together was written by Lennon (credited Lennon & McCartney) and was originally inspired from a campaign slogan when Timothy Leary, the famous or infamous LSD advocate, was running for governor of California. The slogan “Come Together – Join the Party” had a few not-so-subtle double-entendres. Lennon adopted the phrase come together and based his new song riffs and some of the lyrics on Chuck Berry’s 1956 single “You Can’t Catch Me”.
**Editor’s Comment: The Spice Girls.
***Reviewer’s Comment: Labatt Blue.
***Editor’s Comment: The apple fell a fair distance from the tree on that one.
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