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Fun fact about Tennessee: there is only one natural lake. We have somewhere around 200,000 lakes, and I can tell you that there are a lot of people enjoying them. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is probably responsible for most of those lakes, but there is that one outlier. North of Memphis, there is a lake that formed when the Mississippi temporarily flowed backwards after a series of earthquakes. Is that the time of the lake they refer to? Because that would have been 1811-1812.
The mostly clear, gold beverage is actually skewing to yellow. That said, I have seen beers with less haze that have called themselves hazy. The head is pretty formidable whenever I pour the beer, but it settles down pretty darn quickly to an incomplete cap on top of the beer. Even the ring around the sides isn't particularly strong. There will be a little bit of lacing, but it's not going to be a whole lot. The aroma is unexpectedly without the lemon over grains that I'm used to. It has grain to it, but it really smells like they've added some pine hops, and that brings a wrinkle to this whole thing, doesn't it?
First sip is an interesting sensation of some coriander mixed with a little bit of citrus, some flowers, but I don't think I taste any pine. I mean, I don't really want pine, but I'm not tasting the flavors I normally do in a pilsner. I was kind of looking forward to those. I wouldn't say this is downright bad, as they didn't add coffee, but it's not a great taste. I'm not sure if this Half Batch beer was only half thought through.
Tip-in is wheat, grass, and not insignificant carbonation buzz. The middle sends carbonation to the roof of the mouth while the center gets a little watery as it introduces citrus. The finish is the emergence of dough while coriander and flowers suddenly come out of nowhere, and they are not particularly welcome.
Bottom Line: There are plenty of good pilsners out there, and this isn't really one of them.
1.0/5
