Commonplace moderate Dutch pils relegates musky grain-husked minerality to pungent hop-embittered skunking. Not far removed from Heineken, only lighter and less evolved taste-wise, its white-breaded pale malt spine dissolves quickly.
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DOMINION BEACH HOUSE GOLDEN PILSNER
Stylistically aggressive dry-bodied Czech pils brings raw-honeyed fruiting to delicate grassy hop spicing. Light lemon-seeded bittering recedes at doughy baguette bottom. Easygoing summer lager for indiscriminate tastes.
KEEGAN HELGA PILSNER
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, mellow yellow-paled light pilsner offers dry-hopped citric influence to grass-stained florality. Soft white wheat spine fades in the distance. Plain, approachable, easygoing and sessionable.
PALM ESTAMINET
Soft-toned Belgian pilsner brings lemon-salted Saaz hop prickle to sweet orange peel zest, satisfying lighter thirsts with lower expectations. Delicately crisp mineral water soothe proves relaxingly invigorating. But clay-hopped herbal respite and sweet corn alacrity cannot fill the gaping hole minimizing the fragile citric finish.
PORT CITY DOWNRIGHT PILSNER
TWO ROADS OL’ FACTORY PILS
Musky German-styled pilsner loads astingent dry-hopped bittering atop pungent grain-husked earthiness and brisk lemon tartness for robust quencher. Sturdy toasted rye backbone picks up resinous hardwood grit and wispy perfumed snip. Serve to Czech lager lovers as nifty bohemian alternative.
GREEN FLASH EAST VILLAGE PILSNER
Sessionable Czech pils (a.k.a. Fizzy Yellow Beer) offers gruff mineral graining and raw-honeyed wheat husk to lemony wood-dried Saaz hops. Skunked yeast bittering scours rustic straw-hay-barnyard parch as herbal nuances wisp by the mild biscuit-y spine.
AGAINST THE GRAIN HACKSAAZ CHUGGIN’ PILS
On tap at Proletariat, refreshing straw-paled dry-hopped light body is tribute to famed wrestler Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Musky rye breading and orange-oiled herbal notions outfit the freshly-picked Saaz hops, picking up grassy barnyard acridity by the husked grain finish. Serve to Extra Special Bitter fans as well as discriminate hop heads.
ROGUE GOOD CHIT PILSNER
PARBO BIER
Inoffensive and non-essential straw-paled moderation brings mild rice-caked sweetness, dry sourdough yeast and cardboard-like malts to its delicate toasted white bread foundation. Light veggie hints and distant lemongrass snip too low in the metallic mix.
POLAR BEER
Bland yellow-paled light-bodied pilsener with salty carbolic hops recalling the South American shoreline and lightly toasted barley reminiscent of cleaner North American lagers. Seltzer-like lemon-limed watering lightens the skunked whiskey malting and Granny Smith apple souring.
SHORT’S PONTIUS ROAD PILSNER
Brisk citric-spiced yellow-hazed Czech-styled dry body pleats compost-wafted lemon-rotted souring with cardboard-like toasted white breading and pungent grassy-hopped lemongrass herbage. Astringent vegetal fungi earthiness and parched maize stalkings never overwhelm sun-dried lemon spoilage.