Unfiltered Pilsner
Jester King Brewery

 

Old lady picked a 4 pack up of this last summer for me. Drank 3 that summer, saved 1 for this summer and it held up well.

Pours a standard yellow for a pilsner. For being unfiltered, it still looks pretty good, light cloudiness. 2/5" white head. Good retention. The aroma really pushes nice dry, sulphur kind of yeast. Hallertau is detectable but not in an overhopped IPL kind of way. Light barley impression.

Taste is nice, gets more complex than the nose, good pilsner malt breadiness but crisp mouth feel via carbonation and that hallertau feel contributing crispness and a grassiness. Good and dry, stays away from any residual sweetness. Very easy to drink. 16oz just eviscerates itself in no time. Always nice to have a reasonable 5% style beer that packs a lot of flavor upside an effortless consumption.

The year of 2020 taught me I really like a good number of lagers out of Texas and Arizona. Keep 'em coming.

 

A: Pours a very light hazy pale yellow in color with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising from the bottom of the glass and moderate straw yellow + pale lemon yellow colored highlights. The beer has a three finger tall dense sudsy foamy bright white head that slowly reduces to a large patch of very slightly mottled thin film covering the entire surface of the beer and a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Slightly heavier than moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate aromas of bready + biscuit + slightly grainy malts with a light amount of grainy sweetness. Slightly lighter than moderate aromas of lager yeast and light to moderate aromas of spicy + grassy hops.

T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of bready + biscuit + slightly grainy malts with a light amount of grainy sweetness. That is followed by just shy of moderate flavors of lager yeast. Finally there is a slightly heavier than light flavor of spicy + grassy hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which fades away in a reasonable amount of time leaving a clean finish.

M: Light to medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Crisp with a clean finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol and a refreshingly crisp + clean mouthfeel. Enjoyable with a little more complexity to the malts flavors than often seen in traditional pilsners but very well constructed and executed.

Excellent pale yellow body, bright and clear; lively carbonation; thick and rocky white head, fairly dense. Very aromatic nose; sweet grass and floral notes; a bit herbal. Delicate flavors; mild, subdued grain sweetness with an oh-so subtle cracker note; moderate hop bitterness. Light body; crisp and delicate on the palate; muted sweetness overall with the mouthfeel.

I love the balance and delicacy exhibited by this beer. It comes across as very clean and refreshing. The craftsmanship and attention to detail in the brewing of this beer is readily available from the get go. A real beauty of a beer...

16oz can poured into a tulip pint glass

Appearance: Pours a straw yellow with a slight haze 1/4 finger of head an moderate lacing

Smell: Bready malts and earthy hop tones

Taste: Bready malt flavors upfront, like baked cookies with little sugar, the hop bitterness comes slightly in the finish

Mouthfeel: Full body yet leads to a dry finish. Jester king always amazes me how they can produce such a full body beer yet lead to a very dry finish

Overall: Wow..... 2020 has been quite an unprecedented year in so many ways, yet drinking a Jester King brewed pilsner from a 16oz can is one of the most least expected ways this year would throw me a curve ball. This is a great pilsner all things considered, Not among the greatest in our state but this one is very balanced and is very satisfying if you happen to be in the Texas hill country wanting a great beer to end your day.

 

 

Cloudy pale goldenrod with a tight white head. Smells very yeasty with some moderate hops, very basic. Huge biscuit, dulled wildflower, general yeast, and grassy hops in the taste. Feel is bready, bright, and crushable but has enough there in the body to make you stop and appreciate it. Good but better out there

 

 

 

 

pours a lightly cloudy straw yellow.
nose is huge hit of bready malt, biscut, bread crust, grassy, floral hops.
taste follows. spicy, earthy hops upfront, followed by a refreshing, bready malt backbone.
great beer.

This is a solid representation of a beer that is actually tough to brew. It must be done correctly, or a pilsner wont work.

This is refreshing and crushable.

Bread-like in taste. Absolutely delicious.