Pilsner
Twin Sails Brewing

 

473ml can, the twin (sorry) offering to the hazy pale ale from this brewery to both recently arrive in Alberta.

This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves a few streaky swaths of chunky lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, white grape juice, a hint of buttered toast, and some plain leafy, earthy, and wet floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a gentle free-range toastiness, muddled pome fruity notes, and more understated leafy, weedy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly timid in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with an ethereal creaminess seeping in once things warm up after a spell. It finishes on the sweet side, just, as the hops flail about in their lingering demise.

Overall - this is a fairly benign example of the style, one merely providing lip-service to the better iterations out there. Not poorly made, however, yet hardly crisp or bold enough to make me want to have another round. Perhaps useful as a gateway tasting course lead-in?

 

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 355ml can, 5.1 ABV now, 25 IBU, 100% German Pilsner Malt and Czech Saaz & Hallertau hops.
A: Pours a clear light gold with a thin skim of white head no lacing.
S: A spicy nose ,malts and some hops.
T: A nice tart Pilsner taste with a slight bitter hop finish.
F: Clean a crisp it could use a bit more carbonation.
O: A very nice Pilsner for sure great on a hot day just needs more bubbles.