Dependable Czech-styled pilsner tosses brisk lemon-seeded tartness and muted lemongrass spicing at mild grassy hop bittering. Dark floral notions, muted vegetal herbing and doughy fresh breading get spread across the buttery saltine backbone.
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SOUTHERN TIER EUROTRASH PILZ
Gruff Eastern European-styled corn-grained malt liquor astringency and burly Dutch-like pungent bitterness softened precipitously by doughy yeast sweetness. Grassy-hopped husked wheat dryness contrasts perfumed citrus mildness and mild floral nuance to biscuit-y bottom. Sessionable lawnmower fodder.
SOUTHAMPTON KELLER PILS
Bold copper-hazed German pilsner boasting “unfiltered varietal hops” tosses crisp orange zest, tart lemon-pitted souring and salty white-peppered wood varnishing at resinous hop prickle. Impending cereal-grained sweetness contrasts straw wheat acridity and latent herbal snip. Tertiary sunflower-seeded lemongrass undertones sidle clay-like sourdough finish. Expressive late summer session beer never fails to surprise.
AVERY JOE’S PREMIUM AMERICAN PILSNER
Terrific light-bodied straw-hazed pils contrasts mild bitterness with tingly citric sweetness to perfection. Wafting skunked pungency never negates easygoing grassy-hopped crystal malting. Challah-breaded biscuit, sourdough and flour undertones whisk by arid straw-grained pine-barked astringency and sudsy carbolic Seltzer fizzing. Docile lemon custard, key lime pie and marmalade illusions fill floral backdrop. A simple soft-toned pilsner with some legs.
(CAPE ANN) FISHERMAN’S HONEY PILSNER
On tap at Barcade, traditional Czech pils relates well to German dry lager and English ESB styles. Lemon-dried raw honey souring picks up herbal harvest graining, allowing grassy-hopped alfalfa, whey and porridge illusions to infiltrate sourdough bottom.
RADEBERGER PILSNER
Musk-like German pils brings doughy stale-breaded mineral graining to corn-husked lemon rot peculiarity. Sharp Saaz hop grassing subsumes weirdly herbaceous whim and metallic honey-soured apple-peach depletion to wet cardboard backdrop.
ORANGE BLOSSOM PILSNER
Perfectly bland summer afternoon lawnmower fare with sticky-tongued orange blossom honey mildness above thin white wheat base gets lost in phenol hop astringency. Trifling orange-tangerine soaping, vegetal maize-dried snip and cardboard backdrop lag behind. Brewed by South Carolina’s Thomas Hooker for Orlando-based nanobrewery.
EAST COAST BEACH HAUS PILSNER
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, vigorous pre-prohibition-styled pale body reaches creamy honeyed malt summit. Sharply salted grassy-hopped spicing underscores corn-sugared cereal graining contrasting tart lemon-peeled yellow-fruited bittering. A well-balanced full-bodied changeup that’s more robust and flavorful than typical light pilsner fare.
SIXPOINT SEHR CRISP PILSNER
On tap, brusque German-style bohemian pilsner retains musty bread-crusted grain malting, dried-out yellow-fruited pungency and earthen hop musk. Sweet biscuit-y notion placates raw wheat bottom, sour mash wort and mild resinous bittering. Stylistically robust.
VICTORY HARVEST PILS
Rustic German pilsner pleats leathery barnyard astringency with wood-dried lemon rot, peach mold, and mildewed orange coarseness. Mowed grass, horsehair, hay, and alfalfa harbor raw wheat backdrop. Iodine-like alcohol acridity, vegetal anomaly, and cardboard papering nearly sabotage protracted citric pungency.
RED HOOK ROPE SWING SUMMER PILSNER
Crisp light-bodied gold-hazed Czech-styled pilsner places citric-hopped easement next to polite caramel malt shelter. Sour lemon-seeded tranquility, mild grassy-hopped bittering and crushed black pepper snip contrast baguette, baked bread and French bread sustenance. Minor floral illusions seep in. A good, serviceable session beer for America’s lawn-mowing proletariat.