Dry River Pils
Thunder Canyon Brewery
- From:
- Thunder Canyon Brewery
- Arizona, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 05, 2008
- Added:
- Jun 05, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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A medium bodied Eastern European style pilsner, characterized by it's golden straw color and malty flavor balanced with moderate hop flavor.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Gueuzedude from Arizona
3.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Sampled on tap at the brewery
This beer arrives with a half-finger thick, pale, white colored head. The color is quite gold and is not quite perfectly clear. The aroma smells very malt focused for a Pils; grassy grain notes, a touch of malt sweetness and even something that is almost like corn. There is a faint, herbal hop aroma here, but it is somewhat muted.
The flavor has more of a herbal hop character than the aroma suggested and there is a bitterness that contributes a nice bite to the finish. Sweet malt notes and a clean grain character are evident and in fact noticeable enough that this does not quite have the hop focus that a Pils should have. This has a fuller mouthfeel from the more noticeable malt character.
This is not really typical of a Pils in that it is more malty; the sweetness gets in the way of the crisp, dry character that is typical of a German Pils. The malt fullness is somewhat like a Bohemian Pilsner, but it does not have the malt complexity, nor the ample, balancing hop character of that type. Not bad, it just seems to miss the mark a bit.
Jun 05, 2008This beer arrives with a half-finger thick, pale, white colored head. The color is quite gold and is not quite perfectly clear. The aroma smells very malt focused for a Pils; grassy grain notes, a touch of malt sweetness and even something that is almost like corn. There is a faint, herbal hop aroma here, but it is somewhat muted.
The flavor has more of a herbal hop character than the aroma suggested and there is a bitterness that contributes a nice bite to the finish. Sweet malt notes and a clean grain character are evident and in fact noticeable enough that this does not quite have the hop focus that a Pils should have. This has a fuller mouthfeel from the more noticeable malt character.
This is not really typical of a Pils in that it is more malty; the sweetness gets in the way of the crisp, dry character that is typical of a German Pils. The malt fullness is somewhat like a Bohemian Pilsner, but it does not have the malt complexity, nor the ample, balancing hop character of that type. Not bad, it just seems to miss the mark a bit.
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