Edgeworth
Idle Hands Craft Ales

Pours golden and bright with white head. Some floral noble hops on the nose. It's bright, floral, crisp. There's some tea cracker and some fresh cut grass, white pepper character. The hops are assertive but not anywhere close to the IPL scale. It definitely falls within the crispy boi scale. A nice little sipper.

American brewers have been brewing some excellent pilsners.
This is another one in the lineup.
Light golden color with a 4F head in a pilsner glass.
Floral, malty, citrus aroma.
Mostly malty taste with a dry firm bitterness in the finish.
Excellent Pilsner and worthy of drinking year round.

Can. Pours a slightly hazy, yet bright golden color. Nicely built head. Fluffy, lacey, consistent. Solid nose, definite cereal maltiness. Very hoppy for the style. Specifically, the flavor I find to be overly hoppy. This teeters on India Pale Lager territory. Some American pilsners nail the overhopped style. This one, for whatever reason slightly falters. I’m guessing that the hop bill doesn’t match the inherit characteristics of the pilsner. Or maybe the hops just dominate too much. It’s not awful but I’d hope for more delicate balance here. Not an easy beer to nail; the hoppy pils (that isn’t trying to be an IPL).

 

Canned 4/17/19
Pours a big frothy foamy head with medium retention, great lacing, mostly clear slight chill hazed golden yellow color

Nose raw doughy cracker, straw power with a little corn but within typical range for pilsner, gristy malt, light floral fruity little spicy hop

Taste more big pilsnerv malt, grainy sweet with straw, cracker, bready gristy malt, no corn, but big hops, medium to lighter overall bitterness but tons of spicy hop flavor, soft lager and dry finish, big spicy hop lingering

Mouth is med bod, big effervescent tingly carb

Overall not bad, good base malt, lager, hops are mostly on point but just get a bit too spicy overall, still a good pilsner

 

Served in a tapering pilsner glass. Nice foamy head which forms an initial dome while settling. After five minutes it fades to a film of fine bubbles. One thick ring of lace after the first sip. Some blankets of lace thereafter.

Soft pale malt nose balanced with a light floral hop. Attractive.

A bit grainy on the tongue. Otherwise, the malt is appropriate for the style (advertised as a pilsner). The hop is biting, not noble. The body is neutral as is the carbonation. It's good but not special.

 

 

Poured into a pilsner glass, the appearance was a glossy light yellow color with fair transparency about it. Light carbonation bubbles could be seen rising at a moderate pace. Some semi-speckled to spotty lace sticks to the glass finely.
The aroma speaks of biscuits, white crackers, lingering lemon notes, fresh cut grass and a Saaz-like hoppiness (light earthy hop spice) I tend to find in Czech pilsners.
The flavor yields to the sweetness of a fine meshing of biscuits, white bread, light lemon, and freshly cut grass. Ever so slight aftertaste of biscuits, freshly cut grass, lemon notes and some hop spice.
The mouthfeel was about light bodied with a tendency to almost be close to medium bodied. Carbonation seemed just a tad lighter than I expected but still enjoyable. ABV felt on par. Semi-smooth finish with a refined grassy kilting effect on my tongue.
Overall, not an American pale lager, but a very nice pilsner with some Americanized hops and creativity. I'd have again.