Tepid German-styled pilsner retains dry-hopped wheat chaff and maize acridity to its buttered bread bottom. Cloying corn sugaring diminished by sudsy carbolic fizz.
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(COSTA RICA) IMPERIAL LIGHT
KAISER LOW ALCOHOL PILSNER
DYCKMAN BREW PILSNER
On tap at Blue Ribbon Tavern, musky moderate-bodied flagship pilsner brings gluey cardboard-like pale malting to raw-honeyed sour lemon putridity. Lusty carbolic citric spritz negates musty vegetal herbage that wispily seeps into roughhewn bruised orange finish.
TOMMYKNOCKER ALPINE GLACIER PILSNER LAGER
Crisp mountain-watered golden-hazed German-styled pils (not to be confused with Alpine Glacier American Lager) betters its similar-named predecessor. Honeyed cereal graining backs up grassy-hopped citric zest. Lemony briskness brightens the overall mood as sourdough, baguette, white rice and sweet corn dalliances overwhelm any metallic solvency.
DOGFISH HEAD PIERCING PILS
Modest hybridized fruit-forward Czech pilsner (circa 2013) brings white pear tea and fermented pear juicing to toned down Saaz hop earthiness. Complacent Bosc and Chinese pear subtleties flutter across herbal-nipped florality, leaving sweet ‘n sour lemony grapefruit-orange spritz to contrast depleted husked corn astringency as well as barren chamomile-green tea nuances. It’s like a laid-back pear cider.
ALFA EDEL PILS
Drab spring-watered light pilsner compromises cotton-candied caramel sugaring, sweet corn incentive and soft-toned grassy hop crisping with raw-honeyed mineral grain astringency. Beneath, murky lemon-soured spritz contrasts doughy white bread sweetness. Passive blue-collar fare for indiscriminate tastes.
HERTOG JAN PILSNER
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.
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.