St. Pauli Girl Lager
Two row spring barley from the south of England, a special strain of yeast, ice-age glacier water from the "Rotenburger Rinne," plus hops from the famous "Hallertau Hop Gardens" in southern Germany are the ingredients that give St. Pauli Girl Lager its unsurpassed quality and taste and keeps you coming back for more.
2.3
990 reviews
Bremen, Germany
Community reviews
12 ounce bottle into lager glass; bottled on 1/3/2018, best before 1/2019. Pours crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, white bread, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. A touch of skunky aromas that went away as it sat in the glass. Nice and pleasant aromas with pale malt and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, white bread, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nutty/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness of pale malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero fruity notes present. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very good pale lager. All around nice robustness of pale malt and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and never watery for the ABV. Very clean pils malt flavors, with light earthy hop balance. A very enjoyable and well made offering for the style.
Cerveja justa para o estilo, de cor amarela brilhante e translúcida, um maltado bem leve que não deixa a cerveja doce, o que acontece no estilo.
Saborosa mas bem amarga, desce leve na garganta.
I used to drink this beer about 25 years ago still good nothing's wrong a basic solid pilsner.
Buena cerveza tipo lager un sabor suave, pero de buen gusto, es recomendable,
Tastes like mouthwash
12 Oz bottle from a 12 pack, poured into a Lowenbrau (Munich) stemmed bowl shaped glass on 18th Dec 2017. A beer I have had many times before RateBeer was conceived . It is still a decent enough golden Pilsner , a little sweet and grainy maybe but has been left behind by the new wave of German Pilsner makers.
same taste as a grolsch
Very nice beer
My dad drank this beer all the time when I was growing up. Not the most memorable beer. Dry and stale. A little sweet. Tried for the first time in 2007.
Skunky smell. Pours a straw yellow color with zero head. Crummy taste, with el cheapo flavoring. Tastes like a watered down Heineken.
330 ml bottle. Pours yellow with a small white head. Aroma in the direction of malt with notes of sugar candies and corn, with light herbaceous tones and sulphurous shades. The taste is unidirectional sour, confident grain maltiness, saturated herbaceous tones, which, in a sufficiently strong bitterness, are intertwined with hops. In the aftertaste, bitterness continues to stretch in the foreground, sweetness moves back and not bad shades it.
Green bottle stamped 1/2018 so assumed ~3.5 months old > pilsner glass
A: Small head falling fast to film atop a clear, bubbly pale gold body.
S: Only lightly skunked allowing some bread or dough to come through along with an herbal or vegetal note. Could be a lot worse.
T: A sour note that suggests corn and some hops. A dry note helps a bit with the sweet aftertaste. Lacking overall.
M: Light body and softer carbonation than apparent. Muddled sweet/sour finish.
O: An old favorite from the '80s, this falls flat in comparison to any modern craft pilsner but not terrible if it's ice cold; and it's still better than Bud.
I was not sure about trying this one, but it is good!! Nice flavor with just a touch of hops to offset the malt. Very nice. Good taste.
10/2018 - update - in Atlanta, another German beer bites the dust. I have not seen this beer in about 2 years. ATL beer distrib. co. favor all the "sweetwater" crap. yuck. If you want hops - buy sweetwater and other local GA pisswater crap. Hops is necessary for beer, sure, but not at the ratio USA "craftie" idiots brew with. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best by February 2018.
Pours a clear straw gold, an inch of foam, respectable lacing.
Smells light struck, of grain, hints of hops.
Grainy, light sweetness, some grassy bitterness. Non descript bitterness.
Light bodied, plenty of carbonation.
Drinkable but just.
A thoroughly bland, tasteless, and boring beer. The only time it has flavor is when its green bottle allows it to get skunked easily. Regardless of its description, this has nothing even vaguely resembling a ’hoppy aroma’.
I have an extremely good nose and the St.Pauli Girl I drink does not smell fishy! This actually smells like real beer. The main thing I notice is that this beer seems to be lacking in the flouride that is found in many American beers, which is a great plus. I also think it might be lacking in the BPH, (at least I hope) that is found many American beers. Gee, bottled in a tinted glass bottle, (NO aluminum can), fine taste, all of the above make for a very good tasting quality beer, which is what beer should taste like. Just might not end up brain dead!
(12oz bottle, 5% ABV) (original review Sep 2018. updated May 2019)
AROMA: light german Pils nose, grain, noble hops, dry toast/crust, (wet paper), hints of herbs
APPEARANCE: light, straw yellow. Clear. foamy, white head (dissipates pretty quickly), minimal lacing
TASTE: grain, some maltiness with ok German lager/pils hoppiness. tad fruitish/candyish, (some sweetness, fruit/corn), leans towards the classic bavarian pils flavors (but a bit light), boiled vegetables
PALATE: light body, medium frizz, crisp and clean, light bitter followthru and linger, some creaminess.
OVERALL: average to slightly above average lager with some german Pils characteristics. A touch sweet. Not overly complex but more grain/malt than many lagers (but still relatively light and easy) with decent lager/pils hoppiness, good balance between malt and grain and hops. Drinkable, refreshing. (went from 2.8 to 2.6)
Can definitely taste the Halletau hops in this beer. Pale lager very smooth to start growing bitter then finishes sort of dry leaving you with that sense that you want more. I have drank a lot of German beer and this is still my favorite year round and for the price.
Poured from a 12 OZ bottle into a pint glass at the Taco Mac in Atlanta. I have had this dozens of times in the past, first time for a review. The appearance is a clear light yellow color with a very small white head. The aroma is all "skunk". The taste is awful, the first flavor is skunky followed by some mild hops.
Kind of typical pale lager. Sweet, with a slightly skunked flavor. At least its got a memorable spokes lady.
Pours yellow with a small white head. Why does it smells like tuna fish???? Has flavor just not very good. The only reason I bought a single bottle was it was the only beer I could find from that province. I’m done with this beer.
skunky and sour in a bad way, I don’t know if thats a desirable taste for some people but ugh I might actually have trouble finishing this. Just not for me. Cool bottle otherwise
Straight from the green bottle. Light sweet pale lager. Some stale papery notes as well. Bout what I expected
Bottle@oyster bar Carmel. Light golden. Clear. Earthy aromas. Slight DIA. Pronounced sweetness. Body light though. Good for driving wifes.
Bottle from Quicky Mart. Pours clear golden, whisper of a white head. Aroma was sweet gains and some skunk. Taste was sweet
Surprisingly poor as for the German beer. Golden color . Nice , white head. Weak , sweat aroma of malt and grass with some metallic notes. Sweet , malty taste . Poor...
This was poured into a pilsener glass.
The appearance was a hazy burnt yellow/orange color, slight transparency, low carbonation is seen rising. Slim fastly dissipating head falls and leaves no lacing.
The smell is skunky "Euro/dead" grassy/burnt onion. Burnt grains.
The taste is basically the same. Definitely a skunky aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, light bodied and semi-sessionable if one can look past the skunkiness of it all. Faded burnt onion creates a semi-smoothness like a decent premium lager.
Overall, mouthfeel is the best thing about this. But considering the smell and taste, well, nothing I need to come back to. Tickers gotta tick, one and done for me.
Originally rated on 5/27/08. The best thing about this beer is the blonde on the label. Its pretty much downhill from there, it looks good enough but the aroma is skunky, and sickly sweet, tastes bitter and slightly metallic. I dont recommend it
Bottle pour. Clear pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma is grain and floral. Light to medium body. Very light bitter taste.