Rain
Pure Project

Clear gold, plenty foam.

Yeasty nose.

Feint sweetness, feint hoppiness. Probably spot on pilsner but nothing grabs me.

Light as a cloud, doesn't seem crisp IMO.

 

 

 

Served on tap at The Cove House in La Jolla. Crisp, clean, mild hoppy finish. Not as malty or hoppy in the finish as a traditional Pilsner. Lighter. Excellent.

Pours quite nicely into my complementary La Quinta paper cup, 2" foamy head with excellent retention and what would likely be great lacing as well. Nose is floral, herbal, and bready. Taste is chamomile tea or jasmine tea, some yeasty sweetness, a little lemon, but very floral; sweetness continued to grow on the finish. Feel is very nice, crisp with some body. I found this enjoyable; a little too sweet and tea-like for my taste, but would gladly have another.

On tap at Pure Project North Park in San Diego.
Pours a beautifully clear and shimmering golden yellow with an ample finger of tight white head. Laces nicely.
Aroma of pale malt with floral hops, a touch of spicy, herbal aromas, lemon/citrus.
Spicy and floral on the palate, softer notes of citrus, lemon peel, with some gentle herbal bitterness, a hint of grassy flavour on a solid pale malt base.
Remarkably solid mouthfeel with bright carbonation and a dry crisp finish.
Everything a pils should be.

 

Served on-tap at the brewery in North Park.

A: Nearly clear golden with solid cushion of white head and excellent lacing.

S: Aroma is earthy and spicy with ample noble hopping and light pale malt sweetness

T: Flavor is earthy, led by the spicy, herbal hopping with light wood, herbal character and solid pale malt backbone. A little more yeast expression with some berry notes, more than many in the style which is refreshing. Light-moderate bitterness.

M: Feel is solid with light body and dry, satisfying finish.

O: Rain is a top-notch Pilsner with more earthy, spicy hop notes that spring out alongside a little more deliberate yeast character for the style.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured from a can with a date 4 months old. Not very cloudy at all and I expected it to be given that it is unfiltered. It tasted quite good even without the cloudy character. It is not up to the German pilsners however.

 

 

Canned on 3/8/22; consumed on 9/5/22

Pours a foggy, pale straw-gold body capped with multiple fingers of cascading, fluffy, off-white foam; great head retention leaves a finger and a half of rocky, soapy cap, a large, frothy collar, and a near-comprehensive coating of chunky lacing covering the walls of the glass.

Aroma highlights a rounded, floral yeastiness upfront, welcoming white bread dough atop a subdued minerality; vague jasmine pokes through over time, leaving residual impressions of wet grass hinting at a burgeoning hop presence.

Taste shows white bread accented with hints of straw before a familiarly fresh, floral, yeastiness washes over the palate; flower petals mark the mid-palate, a gentle introduction to a slight, more aggressively herbal jasmine meeting wet grass toward the finish.

Mouthfeel offers a light body and a fuller, fluffy carbonation; taut, clean textures engage a crisp transition to vaguely bitter sensations past the mid-palate, evening over the back end to a level, deftly flaky close.

Fresh yeast feeds a delicately toasty malt profile before a distinctly herbal turn, a brief refocusing toward the implicit, hop-forward subtleties in an otherwise clean American interpretation of the style.

unfiltered yet fresh.