Pils Is For Pals
WeldWerks Brewing Co.
- From:
- WeldWerks Brewing Co.
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 7.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 10, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Collaboration with Prairie Artisan Ales and Boulevard Brewing Co.
Dry-hopped pilsner with Motueka hops.
Dry-hopped pilsner with Motueka hops.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.5/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nabbed a 4-pack of 16 fl oz cans for $12 incl. tax at Weldwerks today. Pull-tab. Green and white label. Lacks a canned-on or best before date.
"Dry hopped pilsner with Motueka hops."
Served cold into a Mastercraft rastal pint glass.
APPEARANCE: Vibrant yellow body, obviously filtered with good clarity. White head ~5cm in height. ~6 minute head retention.
AROMA: Crackery pilsner malts. Grassy hop aromatics, Saaz-like spiciness (that's the Motueka Saaz pedigree coming through), rosemary herb, lemon, graininess from 2-row or 6-row.
Promises a pilsner with a more prominent hop aroma than one would find in a traditional expression of the style, but it does seem balanced rather than overhopped like so many American attempts at the style.
Aromatic intensity is above average.
TASTE: Lemon, lime, floral hop flavour, grass, Saaz-like spice. More diverse in hop flavour than a traditional pilsner, but I'd stop short of calling it overhopped since it isn't necessarily more intense in hop flavour - at least not so substantially so that it drinks like an IPL. The crackery graininess of an expressive pilsner malt backbone is left intact despite the prominence of the Saaz-like Motueka hop varietal.
Finishes on a crisp apple juice/dry apple cidre flavour.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, refreshing, a biteen juicy, crisply carbonated (true to style), light to medium-bodied, approachable, and somehow soft despite its crisp minerality.
OVERALL: A remarkably well executed stab at a pilsner by some of the U.S.A.'s better breweries, exhibiting remarkable restraint with respect to its hop regimen in comparison to so many other American brewers - who seem to only be interested in brewing IPLs and dressing them up as pilsners.
I don't know that I'd say it's a better pilsner per se than Bierstadt Lagerhaus' Slow Pour Pils in terms of Colorado expressions of the style, but it's easily one of the better American executions of the style I've tried even if the brewers had to rely on nontraditional hops as a crutch in order to help it stand out. Still, its $12/4-pack pricetag will probably keep me from revisiting it as often as I would like.
B (3.65) / GOOD
***
12/19/20:
Not quite as good as I remembered, with its hop profile more prominent than I initially thought.
B- / WORTHY
Dec 18, 2020"Dry hopped pilsner with Motueka hops."
Served cold into a Mastercraft rastal pint glass.
APPEARANCE: Vibrant yellow body, obviously filtered with good clarity. White head ~5cm in height. ~6 minute head retention.
AROMA: Crackery pilsner malts. Grassy hop aromatics, Saaz-like spiciness (that's the Motueka Saaz pedigree coming through), rosemary herb, lemon, graininess from 2-row or 6-row.
Promises a pilsner with a more prominent hop aroma than one would find in a traditional expression of the style, but it does seem balanced rather than overhopped like so many American attempts at the style.
Aromatic intensity is above average.
TASTE: Lemon, lime, floral hop flavour, grass, Saaz-like spice. More diverse in hop flavour than a traditional pilsner, but I'd stop short of calling it overhopped since it isn't necessarily more intense in hop flavour - at least not so substantially so that it drinks like an IPL. The crackery graininess of an expressive pilsner malt backbone is left intact despite the prominence of the Saaz-like Motueka hop varietal.
Finishes on a crisp apple juice/dry apple cidre flavour.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, refreshing, a biteen juicy, crisply carbonated (true to style), light to medium-bodied, approachable, and somehow soft despite its crisp minerality.
OVERALL: A remarkably well executed stab at a pilsner by some of the U.S.A.'s better breweries, exhibiting remarkable restraint with respect to its hop regimen in comparison to so many other American brewers - who seem to only be interested in brewing IPLs and dressing them up as pilsners.
I don't know that I'd say it's a better pilsner per se than Bierstadt Lagerhaus' Slow Pour Pils in terms of Colorado expressions of the style, but it's easily one of the better American executions of the style I've tried even if the brewers had to rely on nontraditional hops as a crutch in order to help it stand out. Still, its $12/4-pack pricetag will probably keep me from revisiting it as often as I would like.
B (3.65) / GOOD
***
12/19/20:
Not quite as good as I remembered, with its hop profile more prominent than I initially thought.
B- / WORTHY
Reviewed by beergoot from Colorado
4.07/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Bright and clear golden yellow body; fine, lazy carbonation bubbles; thick and frothy white head; sticky patches of foam ring and lace the glass. Resinous, herbal note on the nose; muted sweetness. Clean and balanced taste; light malt base with a slight ester quality; mild to medium hop bitterness. Light body; crisp and gently sweet with a touch of dryness at the finish.
This is a fine collaborative effort between Weldwerks and Prairie Artisan Ales. Unpretentious while subtly satisfying.
Dec 10, 2020This is a fine collaborative effort between Weldwerks and Prairie Artisan Ales. Unpretentious while subtly satisfying.
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