Gifford Pinchot Pilsner
Backwoods Brewing Company
- From:
- Backwoods Brewing Company
- Washington, United States
- Style:
- Czech / Bohemian Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 24.07%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 03, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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A special ode to Gifford Pinchot National Forest. This beer is brewed with a recipe developed by our owner, Kevin Waters, on a recent visit to Prague.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ckornmannn from Washington
3.94/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From a can: opens like champagne and overflows. Settles into a nice head with excellent retention. Amber color and slightly hazy- different for a pilsner. Grassy and herbal and crisp and plenty of pilsner style hops; taste wise it seems spot on.
Feb 01, 2018
Reviewed by Walterjsiv from Oregon
2.18/5 rDev -37.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.18/5 rDev -37.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
This beer pours amber and clear. It beer tastes metallic and herbal, with hints of slightly excessive dms. It’s cloyingly sweet and chewy for a Pilsner, though balanced by being bitter enough to handle it. I’ll probably not get this one again.
The white head was pleasant yet thin.
Dec 14, 2017The white head was pleasant yet thin.
Reviewed by SamQ from Washington
5/5 rDev +43.3%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +43.3%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
By far the best Czech Pilsner I've run across. What it lacks in head appearance, it most certainly makes for in delicious flavor, and smooth drinkability.
Nov 19, 2017
Reviewed by NickSMpls from Washington
3.12/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours a slightly cloudy dim amber with a solid white head with some retention. Aroma is indistinct, faintly herbal. Taste is .... A bit off the mark for a pilsner, especially one that calls itself a Czech style pilsner lager. Mouthfeel is heavier than I'd like to have and there's no clean finish. It's an ok beer to have when your more after cold beer than anything else, but I suggest a couple of tickets back to the Czech Republic may be needed to refine things a bit.
Jul 07, 2017
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
2.76/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.25
2.76/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.25
The label notes this is named for the national forest, which of course bears the name of the first Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. From the 12 oz can purchased at Haggen Market in Burlington. Pours a slightly hazy amber with an abundant white foam in the snifter.
There's a faint malty sweetness. The first taste is surprising. As in "what were they thinking?" Muddy, bitter, stemmy. Something like vegetable peelings. I wouldn't call it crisp-- it's more of a dishwatery flat finish with that unpleasant astringency in the back of the throat. This is very odd stuff. I have rarely disliked a Pilsner style brew more.
Jun 24, 2017There's a faint malty sweetness. The first taste is surprising. As in "what were they thinking?" Muddy, bitter, stemmy. Something like vegetable peelings. I wouldn't call it crisp-- it's more of a dishwatery flat finish with that unpleasant astringency in the back of the throat. This is very odd stuff. I have rarely disliked a Pilsner style brew more.
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