Crisply carbolic straw-hued Czech pilsner needs deeper yellow-fruited luster and more incisive lemony lime tartness to overcome bleak corn malting. Understated herbal-floral influence, lackadaisical grapefruit bittering, and barren honeysuckle whim weaken over time. Kolsch-like ale yeast brings latent green grape esters and champagne sparkle.
Tag Archives: light pilsner
CHUCKANUT PILS
Adequate yellow-fruited, corn-malted, cereal-grained pilsner brings herbal-tinged lemon spoilage to the fore. But German-styled moderation’s murky orange-grapefruit meander needs better thrust.
(ANHEUSER-BUSCH) BUD LITE GOLDEN WHEAT
Boringly astringent and completely insignificant Bud Lite derivative flattens out metallic phenol hop coarseness with meager orange-peeled corainder wisp to frail white bread staleness. Lacking sufficient salty-grained bitterness, and worse, efficient counteractive malt sweetness, this fizzy orange seltzer approximation goes nowhere fast.
LOWENBRAU PILSNER
KELSO PILSNER
Dank-grained medium-bodied Czech pils with lemony hop fizz and floral-spiced Orange Blossom honey drift falls way short. Vacant crystal malt sweetness and inferior vegetal spill (asparagus-maize-carrot) sink it further into stylistic oblivion.
BROWN’S TOMHANNOCK PILSNER
AUGUSTINER MUNDIEN LIGHT PILSNER
(YANKEE) NEW YORK HARBOR LIGHT PILSNER
EKU PILS
(KARLSBERG) HELLER HOCH PILS
(NORTH COAST) SCRIMSHAW PILSNER
Sassy resinous citric waft counters rye-dried sourdough entry of simple, yet peculiar, pale-hazed golden pilsner. Not quite distinct up-front, but toasted hop imprint and tangy marmalade-fruited appeasement jolt mild mineral-grained finish. Its unleavened breading will appease low carbohydrate crowd.