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I like hops. I usually like them in IPAs, but I am not going to frown upon them being added to a nice, crisp pilsner. Is this going to be one of those? Well, I think it has a good shot of being an excellent melding of more than one style. The crisp and relatively demure nature of a pilsner could really stand to be enliven to buy a hop or two. I don't know when they started dry hopping things, but let's dry hop all the things!
To all the world, this looks like a very traditional pilsner. This doesn't have any of the typical microbrewery haze to it. Instead, it is a clear beverage with a nice, white head. I wasn't sure if this glass was going to compliment the beer, but it definitely does. The aroma is pine and flowers that mixed with a little citrus to bring water to my mouth at just the very scent. This smells like it's going to be good.
First sip seems like it's going to have some skunk at first, but that fades away into citrus peels that align with a bread malt and flowers floating on top. It is a strange roller coaster of a ride to catch that first wave of skunk and then be rewarded for sticking in and sipping the rest of the way. The sweet malt is doing its best to try and ward off the bitterness from the hops, but the hops are digging in. The results seems to be some kind of uneven detente. Let's see if they can settle things in a swig.
Tip-in is sweet, highly carbonated, and flowers aren't really sure where to go with the sweet bread underneath. The middle is an almost tempestuous cavalcade of bubbles and hops trying to be prickly while dealing with a smooth malt. The finish slowly turns bitter as the hops wrestle the sweetness away in favor of lemon peels and pine. The trail off becomes more bitter as the heft of the drink disappears.
Bottom Line: Somewhat raucous, and I like that.
3.75/5
