Pilsner
Riggs Beer Company

Clear light gold, medium white head.
Solid Pilsner malt smell, grain, cracker, mineral water.
Light Pilsner malt flavor, grassy, honey, finishes with a sharp hoppy bitterness, good carbonation,
Overall, a really good Pilsner, I think it is comparable to Imports.

Pale gold, bright clarity, visible carb, fluffy foam and ample spotty lace.

Aroma has a floral and earthy hop character, lightly grainy pilsner malt.

Crackery malt and lingering earthy noble hop character, lightly floral. Pleasant and dry in the finish.

Light bodied and crisp, smooth with no astringency, light hop bitterness.

Really nice, the more I drink it, the more I enjoy it’s sublety and earthy hop note.

German Pilsner #152

draft pour into a pint glass. pours a beautiful straw gold with a thick, firm two fingers of white foam. beautiful pour. lemon, grass, maybe some grains on the nose and taste. it’s not super flavorful but it’s beer that tastes like beer and it’s light and refreshing. perhaps a little less carbonation than i prefer in a pilsner but either way this was very enjoyable.

An excellent pilsner, even better when first in the cans or on tap, and probably the closest to something I've had out of Munich in a long time.
White foam, lasting a bit longer than average, fading to thin ring around perimeter of glass and medium-sized island of foam atop body. Lacing is excellent, many blotches, dots, and patterns along the glass. Body is a light golden yellow color, with light bringing out paler shades of gold-yellow (SRM 2-3). Transparent.
Aroma of light sulfur, lightly sweet white bread-like maltiness, then the hops come forward, at first spicy, then softly grassy/herbal/lemony.
Flavor of faintly sweet, white bread-like maltiness mixed with a good spicy/green/leafy/grassy/slightly lemony noble hop character, light sulfur, and medium bitterness. Front: light sweetness, white bready malt, slight lemon, slight peanut/grape fresh lager yeast character, slight spice and herbal character from noble hops. Mid: increased hop presence, with spice, some grassiness and herbal-ness, a touch of lemon, and medium-light to medium bitterness; the malt recedes to the background here. Back: lemony noble hop character joined to some spice and herbal hop flavors, medium bitterness, underneath it some pale malt coming across as white bread, and a touch of fresh lager yeast character. After: lingering medium-light to medium bitterness with some noble hop spiciness and a bit of white bread-like maltiness.
Beer is medium-light in body, with medium carbonation, resulting in a mostly foamy mouthfeel with a bit of smoothness, which works for the beer and the style. Closes very dry, with light stickiness on the lips and palate.
[canned 3/23/21]

(A-/B+, B/B+, B+/A-, A, B+)

A: Pours with just a touch of haze, but that clears up after a minute. A dense white head forms with good retention and plenty of lace.
S: Big grassy, floral, and herbal hops up front. This is a very hop forward Pilsner. Almost no malt detectable in the nose, but I love the Noble hop aroma.
T: Like the nose, that big Noble hop character is up front and I really enjoy it. Grassy, floral, herbal tea like. More malt shows up here, with a bread/biscuit/cracker flavor. A lingering bitterness brings everything together.
M/O: A medium body with high carbonation. Beautiful effervescence, superbly clean, and wonderfully dry. Really easy to drink. This is downed in big gulps and had several at the brewery.

This is a mid summer seasonal Riggs has released the last few years. I have always missed it until now. Glad I was able to try it, and perfect to drink outside in the expansive patio. Really hop forward with a wonderful Nobel hop character. I think I like the Helles slightly more, but that is splitting hairs. Another excellent lager made by a great German influenced brewery in central Illinois.