American Pilsner Companion
Lucky Envelope Brewing

Gorgeous beer. Perfectly crisp and clear. I held the full glass in front of the can and could still make out most of the blurb along the side. Couple of fingers of large white sticky head. Pillowy/rocky, with a languid sense of time... slowly collapses in on itself leaving behind massive chunky sideways piles of lacing on the sides of the glass.

Nose is initially fairly sweet. Apple juice. Not what I was expecting (nor hoping, tbh). As it sits, this opens up, and that sweetness thankfully dissipates. In its place is more of a grainy malt base. Bready malts with a lightly spicy hop presence layered over the top. It's grown on me.

Flavour is much the same. The malts seem almost lighter up front on the tongue than they do the nose. More crackery than bready. Lightly kissed with a sweet honey/nectar note and then pleasantly if lightly hopped with classics giving a bit of light herbal/grassy presence. The herbal is not the bitter vegetal herbaciousness, but a much brighter herb, like a brown mint, but really it's more of the grassy lightness anyway. Finish has some of the earthy bitterness, but the malts come back to wash it all down with a white-bread clean/sweet touch that leaves just the faint glow of earthy hops behind.
If anything, it's a little thin at times, but overall, that's picking nits, and that's even before one gets to the point that it's a low ABV light summer option. I just wish I'd drank it when the weather was a little warmer!!