Pack Leader Pilsner
Yellow Dog Brewing


- From:
- Yellow Dog Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 5.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 10, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by drinkincan
3.5/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours slightly hazy. Tastes like a fairly typical balanced pilsner. The hops are a little towards the herbal/woody side, but not overbearingly like some craft pils.
Apr 10, 2025Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473ml can - this should be a grand sort of offering for this time of year, except that it's still freaking snowing!
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some random wispy cloud form lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of grainy and crackery pilsner malt, a hint of dried apple peel, gentle sulfur notes, an ephemeral yeastiness, and some earthy, grassy, and straw-like hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, white crackers, more light sulfur, some muddled pome fruitiness, a hint of gasohol, and some zingy leafy, grassy, and floral noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and more or less smooth, as just a minor estery petrol essence takes things down a notch or so here. It finishes trending dry, the crackery malt and grass/straw hop character pushing in that lingering direction.
Overall - this comes across as a competently rendered version of the style, nice and flavourful in that old-world way. I would call it a proper candidate for lawnmower beer, but it seems that it might be a while before I'll be needing such a thing. At any rate, good stuff!
Mar 30, 2018This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some random wispy cloud form lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of grainy and crackery pilsner malt, a hint of dried apple peel, gentle sulfur notes, an ephemeral yeastiness, and some earthy, grassy, and straw-like hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, white crackers, more light sulfur, some muddled pome fruitiness, a hint of gasohol, and some zingy leafy, grassy, and floral noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and more or less smooth, as just a minor estery petrol essence takes things down a notch or so here. It finishes trending dry, the crackery malt and grass/straw hop character pushing in that lingering direction.
Overall - this comes across as a competently rendered version of the style, nice and flavourful in that old-world way. I would call it a proper candidate for lawnmower beer, but it seems that it might be a while before I'll be needing such a thing. At any rate, good stuff!
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