Flensburger Pilsener, Germany’s most northernly beer!

Flensburger Pilsener

http://www.flens.co.uk/

Brewed by Flensburger Brauerei
Style: Pilsener
Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The independent brewery, Flensburger Brauerei, was founded in 1888. It is located in Flensburg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and can be bought all over the country. Apparently it is Germany’s most northernly brewery!

The company was founded on September 6, 1888 by five citizens from Flensburg. They had everything they needed in place for a good well run brewery, an ideal site with an underground glacier spring with crystal-clear water for brewing (Which they still use today) and a way of obtaining the ice needed (in the days before refrigeration) for the lagering cellars. Today it is still mainly held by the founder families of Petersen and Dethleffsen.

All Flensburger products are bottled in glass bottles with a traditional flip-top (swing-top) opener. This has become part of its marketing shtick, a “plopp” sound is what you get when you open the unique style bottle.

The brewery produces a wide array of beers and soft drinks, from the Pilsener styles with a unique North German variation, to dunkels, helles and weizens and for the non beer drinker they make non alcoholic beers, shandies, mineral waters and soft drinks.

Review: 0,33l Flip top bottle of Flensburger Pilsener: ABV: 4.8% vol

A beer that I spotted for sale in my local Aldi. A cheapish 6 pack.

Just love the logo. It’s a boat on the sea sailing past a lighthouse. All coming in a lovely brown stubby flip top bottle. Apparently Flensburger have the world’s biggest automated bottling line for flip top bottles!

On pour get a nice golden yellow coloured beer, with a smallish white head that develops. Doesn’t look particularly great, looks just ok in fact. All goes flat very quickly, little or no carbonation. Some light lacing.

A very piercing, and very citrusy smell. The malts are found on the nose, plus the hops and yeast. Ok smell.

Taste, oh a surprise….a very unique taste there, very yeasty. Also very bitter, very hoppy, fuck me.
No, this is fucking horrible, hopped to death. I found it too hard to drink.

Can feel the alcohol, but it is not nice, far too raw, sour and harsh on the tongue. Where are the malts?

Second bottle,
That taste, too hoppy, needs something to balance that strong sharp taste as it is all too assaulting on the taste buds.

No! not enjoyable at all. Sickly. Very bitter. Ok I know pilsners are a little hoppier than regular lagers, but fuck this shite!!! This hoppy style is meant to be a characteristic of a North German Pils, but as they say in England, this is not my cup of tea, definitely not!