Take Two Pils
SweetWater Brewing Company
- From:
- SweetWater Brewing Company
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 14.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 72
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 19, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 11, 2014
- Wants:
- 9
- Gots:
- 181
SCORE
79
Okay
79
Okay
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Ratings by NiceTaps:
Reviewed by NiceTaps from New Jersey
3.63/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
12oz bottle in a pilsner glass (by 5/5/16).
Liquid gold color with a 1F pure white on gold cap. Clean and clear with active tiny bubbles right up the center of the glass. Pretty heavy lacing for a lager.
Slightly sweet malt and spicy hop aromas. Fresh cut flowers.
Dry yeast, floral and herbal hop flavors.
Hearty feel for a lager. Crisp. Good carbonation and hop tingle. Dry hoppy finish.
Overall a good beer. It has a cool name, label , and vibe. I like the nod to 'White Rabbit'. Groovy!
Mar 27, 2016Liquid gold color with a 1F pure white on gold cap. Clean and clear with active tiny bubbles right up the center of the glass. Pretty heavy lacing for a lager.
Slightly sweet malt and spicy hop aromas. Fresh cut flowers.
Dry yeast, floral and herbal hop flavors.
Hearty feel for a lager. Crisp. Good carbonation and hop tingle. Dry hoppy finish.
Overall a good beer. It has a cool name, label , and vibe. I like the nod to 'White Rabbit'. Groovy!
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Sinfull from New York
3.55/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Clear, golden color. Big, foamy head. Aroma of malt and herbal hops. Classic, pilsner taste with decent, hoppy bitterness and malty background. Decent lager beer.
Jun 28, 2025
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.17/5 rDev +19.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
4.17/5 rDev +19.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
Welcome to Part Two of New After Dark At Water, My Sweet (Week 705)! I spent the morning with Atwater B.C., but as the Summer of 2018 winds down, I am reluctant to get out of the water.
From the Bottle: "Bottle Conditioned"; "Call Us in the Morning!"; "Don't Float the Mainstream!"; "Take Two Pils is a step into an alternate reality for Sweetwater, a head-first dive down into the Wonderland world of Lagers. This adventurous golden blonde German style pilsner is brewed with a mad hatter's dose of spicy floral hops. It's beautifully Bohemian in body, earthy in soul, and it's moving low. Go ask Alice, I think she'll know."
I Pop!ped the cap, but I was starting to feel fatigued as the evening approached, so I went with a slow, gentle pour which was just about my speed at the moment. Once it had been sufficiently decanted, I performed an uplifting in-glass swirl. Uplifting because it lifted up just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention. In turn, I was rewarded with a load of sticky lacing. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5), so I may not have been gentle enough with this bottle-conditioned beer or my dreaded reefer haze has struck again. Nose had a definite malt-forward aspect, but underlain by a Noble/Saaz grassy, hay-like hoppiness. Mmm. Mouthfeel was big, full, dense & creamy! I was astounded since it was another Lager-style beer! The taste was very crisp, not at all sweet, but definitely malt-driven with the hops adding a pleasant spiciness. This is just the sort of thing that they should be putting in CANs for the Summer months. Finish was dry and refreshing. Take Two? I'd suck down a sixer without even a backwards glance! YMMV.
Aug 26, 2018From the Bottle: "Bottle Conditioned"; "Call Us in the Morning!"; "Don't Float the Mainstream!"; "Take Two Pils is a step into an alternate reality for Sweetwater, a head-first dive down into the Wonderland world of Lagers. This adventurous golden blonde German style pilsner is brewed with a mad hatter's dose of spicy floral hops. It's beautifully Bohemian in body, earthy in soul, and it's moving low. Go ask Alice, I think she'll know."
I Pop!ped the cap, but I was starting to feel fatigued as the evening approached, so I went with a slow, gentle pour which was just about my speed at the moment. Once it had been sufficiently decanted, I performed an uplifting in-glass swirl. Uplifting because it lifted up just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention. In turn, I was rewarded with a load of sticky lacing. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5), so I may not have been gentle enough with this bottle-conditioned beer or my dreaded reefer haze has struck again. Nose had a definite malt-forward aspect, but underlain by a Noble/Saaz grassy, hay-like hoppiness. Mmm. Mouthfeel was big, full, dense & creamy! I was astounded since it was another Lager-style beer! The taste was very crisp, not at all sweet, but definitely malt-driven with the hops adding a pleasant spiciness. This is just the sort of thing that they should be putting in CANs for the Summer months. Finish was dry and refreshing. Take Two? I'd suck down a sixer without even a backwards glance! YMMV.
Reviewed by dsa7783 from New Jersey
3.35/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Single bottle copped at Total Wine and More. Prickly taste with moderate hops flowing through. Slightly spritzy with a medium-bodied mouthfeel. Refreshing, clean adaptation of a classic German style. Decent.
Aug 12, 2016
Reviewed by schoolboy from Ohio
4.15/5 rDev +19.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +19.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
What a shocker. I picked up a 12 variety pack at BJ's (one of the 420's was broken - glass all inside). I expected the pils in the pack to be a throw away guzzler. Not so!
It's yellow an foamy. The aroma is strong and hoppy. The taste is very hoppy and dry for the style, to a fault, but it sure tastes good. This is hoppier and drier than most and it may shock some less adventurous beer drinkers expecting a Miller. The aftertaste is very bitter.
Highly recommended. Let the other beer snobs snub their noses at the pilsner - more for us real Beer Advocates.
Jul 24, 2016It's yellow an foamy. The aroma is strong and hoppy. The taste is very hoppy and dry for the style, to a fault, but it sure tastes good. This is hoppier and drier than most and it may shock some less adventurous beer drinkers expecting a Miller. The aftertaste is very bitter.
Highly recommended. Let the other beer snobs snub their noses at the pilsner - more for us real Beer Advocates.
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