Shower Beer
Champion Brewing Company
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- Style:
- Pilsner - Bohemian / Czech
Ranked #100 - ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #31,960 - Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 10.61%
- Reviews:
- 45
- Ratings:
- From:
- Champion Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Avail:
- Rotating/Seasonal
- Wants
- 4
- Gots
- 31
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
Notes:
Perfect for any relaxing occasion, this Bohemian Pilsner sings with fresh, clean maltiness and spicy flavor and aroma contributions from 100% traditional Czech Saaz hops. Aged cold on Lager yeast for weeks for maximum refreshment. If you've never had a Shower Beer, it's high time. Winner of Gold Medal in the Bohemian-Style Pilsner category at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival.
35 IBU
35 IBU
Reviews: 45
| Ratings: 163
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Reviews by Beejay:
Beejay from Virginia
3.79/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A: A slightly hazy light yellow in color, with a decent sized white head.
S: Lightly floral and fruity, with a hint of tartness and salt.
T: Light and malty, at first, then the earthy hops kick in with a bit of a spice character. Finish is freshly baked bread.
M: Light in body, strong carbonation, and a dry finish.
O: A tasty brew.. an appropriately named.
Jan 15, 2017
3.79/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A: A slightly hazy light yellow in color, with a decent sized white head.
S: Lightly floral and fruity, with a hint of tartness and salt.
T: Light and malty, at first, then the earthy hops kick in with a bit of a spice character. Finish is freshly baked bread.
M: Light in body, strong carbonation, and a dry finish.
O: A tasty brew.. an appropriately named.
Jan 15, 2017
More User Reviews:
oberon from North Carolina
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A nice New Year's day football watching beer.Pours into a pilsner light golden with a thinner white head atop with good lace left behind.Light crushed malt aromas with light mildly sweet dough as well.A decent sharp hop profile on the palate,quite dry and grainy.Again a great beer to watch the Maize and Blue destroy Florida today.
Jan 01, 2016
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
A nice New Year's day football watching beer.Pours into a pilsner light golden with a thinner white head atop with good lace left behind.Light crushed malt aromas with light mildly sweet dough as well.A decent sharp hop profile on the palate,quite dry and grainy.Again a great beer to watch the Maize and Blue destroy Florida today.
Jan 01, 2016
Stofko1992 from Pennsylvania
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
May 14, 2016
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
May 14, 2016
Sound_Explorer from Washington
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 04, 2017
3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
May 04, 2017
ShepardCommander from Virginia
4.5/5 rDev +19.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Dec 30, 2015
4.5/5 rDev +19.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Dec 30, 2015
mushroomcloud from Texas
3.49/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12oz canned 5-4-20, opened 6-12-20.
2 finger white head with very good retention, slowly falls to a 1/4' dense foam with small, tight bubbles. Early lacing.
Straw gold pilsner with good clarity and active visible carbonation.
Bread dough malts and sweet, grassy hay...floral, grassy hop aroma.
Paper flavor, not oxidized or stale...somewhat weak malt profile, spicy hops followed by an astringent hop bitterness that doesn't seem to fit.
Thin-ish body, medium-high carbonation...close to crisp. Quick and dry papery finish with a good punch of lingering grassy hop bitterness.
I like some of this and other parts I don't...looks great, smells pretty solid but falls off a little in the taste and feel category.
Good.
Jun 13, 2020
3.49/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12oz canned 5-4-20, opened 6-12-20.
2 finger white head with very good retention, slowly falls to a 1/4' dense foam with small, tight bubbles. Early lacing.
Straw gold pilsner with good clarity and active visible carbonation.
Bread dough malts and sweet, grassy hay...floral, grassy hop aroma.
Paper flavor, not oxidized or stale...somewhat weak malt profile, spicy hops followed by an astringent hop bitterness that doesn't seem to fit.
Thin-ish body, medium-high carbonation...close to crisp. Quick and dry papery finish with a good punch of lingering grassy hop bitterness.
I like some of this and other parts I don't...looks great, smells pretty solid but falls off a little in the taste and feel category.
Good.
Jun 13, 2020
JoshuaShort13 from Texas
3.59/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Sep 27, 2018
3.59/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Sep 27, 2018
Pro_Magnon from Texas
3.67/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Aug 23, 2017
3.67/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Aug 23, 2017
DanLane from Virginia
3.32/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Nov 06, 2018
3.32/5 rDev -11.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Nov 06, 2018
CavemanRamblin from North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jun 19, 2018
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jun 19, 2018
mamaraza from Texas
3.89/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Jun 23, 2017
3.89/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Jun 23, 2017
WillieThreebiers from Connecticut
3.53/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Aug 09, 2020
3.53/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Aug 09, 2020
ordybill from Georgia
4.11/5 rDev +9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured from a 12 OZ can into a pint glass. This beer is a crystal clear light golden color with a minimal white head. The taste is a nice hippy flavor. This is much stronger than the aroma. A pretty good beer that has a great package in the can.
Nov 14, 2015
4.11/5 rDev +9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured from a 12 OZ can into a pint glass. This beer is a crystal clear light golden color with a minimal white head. The taste is a nice hippy flavor. This is much stronger than the aroma. A pretty good beer that has a great package in the can.
Nov 14, 2015
Colin32 from Pennsylvania
3.6/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Dec 04, 2016
3.6/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Dec 04, 2016
godawgs from Louisiana
3.65/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Apr 11, 2016
3.65/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Apr 11, 2016
Yeldarb92 from Ohio
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jun 17, 2017
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jun 17, 2017
thebeers from Pennsylvania
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Hazy pale yellow with two fingers of lasting bright white head. Bready malt aroma with a dry, powdery-yeasty smell to it, and some light floral hops behind. This continues to the taste, with a flash of corn-like malt sweetness up front and then some moderately strong bitterness and a touch of Saaz spiciness on the back end. Light, pillowy mouthfeel, with low carbonation. Not as crisp or grassy as I prefer in a pils, but still not too shabby.
Jun 26, 2016
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Hazy pale yellow with two fingers of lasting bright white head. Bready malt aroma with a dry, powdery-yeasty smell to it, and some light floral hops behind. This continues to the taste, with a flash of corn-like malt sweetness up front and then some moderately strong bitterness and a touch of Saaz spiciness on the back end. Light, pillowy mouthfeel, with low carbonation. Not as crisp or grassy as I prefer in a pils, but still not too shabby.
Jun 26, 2016
highstrung from Virginia
4.06/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Feb 04, 2018
4.06/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Feb 04, 2018
Stengelfoot from California
3.25/5 rDev -13.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Sep 19, 2016
3.25/5 rDev -13.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Sep 19, 2016
mflamar from New York
4.04/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Dec 29, 2015
4.04/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Dec 29, 2015
Jason_cs from Florida
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jan 07, 2018
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Jan 07, 2018
Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.5/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Served on tap in a pint glass
Appearance – The beer is served a crystal-clear golden color with a small fizzy white head. The head fades quite fast to leave just a trace of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is mostly of a grainy smell mixed with some sweeter aromas of caramel and a touch of harvest fruit. Along with these smells comes a touch of grass and hay.
Taste – The taste begins with a rather crisp and clean flavor of lightly toasted malt and some sweeter caramel flavors. At the start there is a little bit of a apricot taste as well as some light but nice herbal hop tastes. As the taste advances the caramel grows a bit stronger all while the herbal hop gets a tad stronger as well. With a touch of grass joining at the end, one is left with a rather nice slightly sweet, but crisp, pils taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is rather light and crisp with a carbonation level that is on the higher side. Overall the feel is rather nice and makes for a super easy sipper.
Overall – A rather nice and flavorful pils with a low abv. A good session style brew!!
Feb 07, 2020
3.5/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Served on tap in a pint glass
Appearance – The beer is served a crystal-clear golden color with a small fizzy white head. The head fades quite fast to leave just a trace of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is mostly of a grainy smell mixed with some sweeter aromas of caramel and a touch of harvest fruit. Along with these smells comes a touch of grass and hay.
Taste – The taste begins with a rather crisp and clean flavor of lightly toasted malt and some sweeter caramel flavors. At the start there is a little bit of a apricot taste as well as some light but nice herbal hop tastes. As the taste advances the caramel grows a bit stronger all while the herbal hop gets a tad stronger as well. With a touch of grass joining at the end, one is left with a rather nice slightly sweet, but crisp, pils taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is rather light and crisp with a carbonation level that is on the higher side. Overall the feel is rather nice and makes for a super easy sipper.
Overall – A rather nice and flavorful pils with a low abv. A good session style brew!!
Feb 07, 2020
oldn00b from Virginia
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Tight carbonation, nice head fades but not too quickly.
Aroma of bread and a bit of hop - typical pils.
Light body, maybe a little light for the style but nice.
Very clean finish. Nice pils.
Aug 04, 2015
3.72/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Tight carbonation, nice head fades but not too quickly.
Aroma of bread and a bit of hop - typical pils.
Light body, maybe a little light for the style but nice.
Very clean finish. Nice pils.
Aug 04, 2015
Oakley from North Carolina
3.69/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Jun 07, 2016
3.69/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Jun 07, 2016
Shower Beer from Champion Brewing Company
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
163 ratings
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