Feels Good Imperial Pilsner
Picaroons Traditional Ales

Feels Good Imperial PilsnerFeels Good Imperial Pilsner
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From:
Picaroons Traditional Ales
 
New Brunswick, Canada
Style:
Imperial Pilsner
Ranked #18
ABV:
7.5%
Score:
85
Ranked #21,135
Avg:
3.74 | pDev: 14.44%
Reviews:
13
Ratings:
37
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 27, 2023
Added:
Feb 09, 2010
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  8
Picaroons recipes evolve due to experimentation. here's an example makeup for this beer:

Grain: Weyermann Bohemian Floor Pilsner Malt, Vienna Malt, Munich 1 malt, Malted wheat, Canadian 2-row barley.

Hops: Hersbrucker, Hallertau Perle and Saaz.

Other: Irish Moss, yeast nutrient, gypsum, Ringwood yeast, water (pH 4.85).
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Ratings by crusian:
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Reviewed by crusian from Oregon

4.29/5  rDev +14.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Bottle from my Awesome girlfriend... this bottle of beer is 3 days old, lol. Awesome. bottle date 7-25-11.
Review by style...
Pours a light golden color with rather large bubble carbonation, and needless to say, fades fast!
Nose is a strong hay and apple with what seems to be a hint of raspberry and alcohol... but mostly hay.
taste is also a very strong apple flavor, a nice citrus bitterness on the front and middle of the palate and a light traditional bitter on the finish. This is quite good! Cant say i have gone out of my way to find imperial pilsners, but the last one I had was Pecker Wrecker, and this one is significantly better than that one. This one is very nice and light, lightly carbed, perfect for a hot day, while the pecker wrecker was thick and syrupy. The abv is hidden well, as this is easily chuggable! But dont let it get too warm, it goes downhill quickly as it warms.
Great Imperial Pilsner, for sure! If i was rating by taste alone and not to style i would put this around a B-. As it is a pilsner...
Jul 30, 2011
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut

3.68/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Sampling a cold 473 ml can poured into my plastic sample cup. There is no date stamp on this beer.
Beer pours a sort of dark copper color, (was expecting more golden) and a creamy dense eggshell white head foams up about 1 cm. Foam fades to a sturdy surface layer and leaves some tight lattice as it fades down my cup.
Aroma is some grainy malt and an herbal tea hop character. Not overly complex nose. I also do get a little hint of booziness in the aroma.
First sip reveals a medium body with slightly sticky mouthfeel and very fine and tingly carbonation. Texture definitely coats my lips a bit with each sip.
Flavor is some grainy malt, a hint of honey sweetness, some biscuit notes and then rolls to black tea bitter hops and some floral notes. I do get a little black pepper bite too, but no warmth from the ABV. Finish dries out and the hops linger a bit.
Overall, this beer isnt what I expected and it really tastes more like an imperial pale ale than a pilsner to me. Might be the most disappointing beer Ive had in Canada so far.
Jul 27, 2023
 
Rated: 3.62 by Electros from Canada (ON)

Nov 01, 2020
 
Rated: 3.75 by GoHabsGo from Canada (ON)

Dec 08, 2018
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Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)

3.76/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Dark gold with a strong head with lacing. Lemony malt nose. Thick body with some hop and alcohol astringency. A treat, not for everyday drinking
Nov 17, 2017
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Rated by Lewnanny from Canada (NB)

3.55/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
A nice beer,

The bottle don't give the feeling this beer have.

It is a nice beer to have once i a while.
Sep 02, 2016
 
Rated: 3.89 by gallan1 from Canada (NB)

May 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.85 by jfreeze from Canada (NB)

Aug 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by cam477 from Canada ()

Jul 06, 2015
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Reviewed by PorterPro125 from Canada (NB)

3.74/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Serving Type: 500 mL

Taken from my notes. Reviewed February 7th, 2015
According to the label, this version of Feels Good contains Fuggles hops.

A- Pours a golden straw colour topped with a 2 1/2 finger white head. Little bit of lacing on the glass.

S- Sweet caramel and sweet malt notes. Light hoppiness. No alcohol on the nose despite a relatively high ABV. Not as much hop presence as I was expecting.

T- Sweet maltiness that moves to a slight hop bitterness fairly quickly. Nice and balanced flavour.

M- Low-Medium Carbonation and a fairly heavy mouthfeel. Oddly robust for a Pilsner and not refreshing by any means.

O - Another great beer from Picaroons. Pleasant aroma and flavour but an oddly heavy mouthfeel for a Pilsner. I suppose it has something to do with the high gravity but the heavy mouthfeel takes it from being an excellent beer to an okay one. Not the kind of Pils I would want on a hot summer day, rather an autumn/winter sipper.
Mar 16, 2015
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Reviewed by lgmol from Canada (NS)

1.89/5  rDev -49.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
This beer looks good. Nice big white head on a clear, bubbly blonde beer.

The smell is pretty weak. There is some caramel, some corn, some bready malt.

The taste is not good. There is some of what's in the aroma but there is also a buttery diacetyl taste that dominates after it warms up a little bit.

The feel is alright, I didn't get too much of the fatty feel that I know is associated with diacetyl, but certainly a little bit.

Overall, this beer was not good. I considered pouring half of it down the drain, but I didn't actually do it.
Mar 03, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by TravitoJones45 from Canada (NS)

Nov 17, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by polloenfuego from Canada (NB)

Aug 06, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by Freddy216b from Canada (NB)

Jun 17, 2014
 
Rated: 4.75 by htdoerge from Texas

May 22, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by DreamDeath from Canada (NB)

May 18, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by yancot from Canada (ON)

Jan 17, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by bumchilly25 from Canada (BC)

Dec 29, 2013
 
Rated: 4.05 by ZachT from Canada (BC)

Sep 21, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by cfalovo97 from Canada (ON)

Aug 06, 2013
Feels Good Imperial Pilsner from Picaroons Traditional Ales
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 37 ratings