Premium Pilsner
Big Rig Brewery

Pours a clear golden straw color with a sudsy white head that lingers a bit. A bit of grass and lots of doughy bread aromas on the nose.

The grass is forward on the taste, and has a slightly herbal characteristic, and the doughy bread flavor provides balance. Nice crisp mouthfeel. Overall, a decent representation of the style.

 

 

 

 

 

I bought this beer at loblaws.
This pilsner beer is nice and crisp
Trying to compare it to the steamwhistle I'm liking this beer a little better then steamwhistle. It's easy drinking and enjoyable
A must try if you like pilsners.
Cheers

Canned 8/15/19
Pours a medium foamy fizzy head with good retention, medium soapy lacing, crystal clear straw golden pilsner color

Nose big German pilsner malt, grainy-sweet and a little doughy, light cake batter and doughy as well, then nice floral herbal noble hops, touch of minerals

Taste is not as great, lager flavors with some weird fruits and a little bitterness that gets to a weird mineral maybe skunky or vegetal unhappy lager thing, can't explain it exactly but it's off, cereal grain and straw like pilsner malt, a little herbal grassy hop with medium-lighter bitterness, bread dough, some minerals, turning into a crisp hop bitterness lingering

Mouth is med to lighter bod, a little soft lager, medium to a little higher carb, medium to a little lighter carb

Overall mixed, the aroma was great, the taste had some good characters but something off as well, but a decent German pilsner

 

 

 

Aug 19 2024

Tallboy can from the LCBO; dated Jun 29 2018 and served slightly chilled.

Pours a light golden-blonde colour, featuring a crystal clear body that is initially crowned with one finger of frothy white head. It dissipates within the next several minutes, leaving behind a soapy collar and a filmy cap. Yep, it looks like a pale lager... and unsurprisingly enough, it smells like one too. Honestly not getting much of anything off the nose - hints of grainy pale malts and corn chips are about it, with weak suggestions of herbal continental hops. Inoffensive, but it's not doing much to draw me in, either.

Good, simple, wholesome flavour profile, with grainy pilsner malt figuring in prominently, alongside fainter notes of bready sweetness and corn chip. Light hints of herbal, vaguely floral hop bitterness begin to come through towards the tail end of the sip, helping to partially counter the more saccharine elements of the malt bill; the aftertaste trends towards off-dry. Light in body, with moderate carbonation levels that give a nice, crisp bite to this lager's texture. Effortlessly easy to drink.

Final Grade: 3.75, eking out a B+. Big Rig's Premium Pilsner is a pleasant-tasting little lager that I liked a hell of a lot more than I thought I would. The flavours are nothing to get excited about, but do come off quite clean and approachable. The price is also very good as far as craft pale lagers go, which is a strong selling point in and of itself in this product category. I like this considerably more than their Gold, and will continue to return to it for the foreseeable future - it's one of the better Big Rig brews I've picked up at the LCBO, that's for sure, and I'd recommend it to other BAs with an appreciation for basic, fizzy yella pale lagers.