Tristeza
Homage Brewing
- From:
- Homage Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 8.19%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 18, 2026
- Added:
- Feb 22, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.69/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.69/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Clear golden amber brew with plenty of foam in the GameCraft Pilsner glass. But there's sediment in the last pour so beware. Big aroma of tree sap and leaf mold, and alfalfa in the nose. Light and tingly on the tongue. Flavors of browned biscuits, I always enjoy when a brewery I"ve never heard of turns out such lively beer. It's certainly hoppy and resiny, not to mention bitter. It's interesting how the bitterness grows as you sip. From the 12 oz can purchased at O'Shea Brewing. Stamped "A Lager for Los Angeles 11/24/2025"
Jan 18, 2026
Reviewed by RaulMondesi from California
4.25/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On fire before there was fire. Like, some cromag had an idea in his head and was rubbing a stone and a stick together… But he just hadn’t got there yet. I drink it and I dream. I drink it and it’s like a fresh cut of sea bream. No, Tristeza does not bring me sadness. Tristeza does not bring me sadness.
Feb 03, 2023
Reviewed by the_awesometeer from California
3.69/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
The beer is a light golden color but darker than most pils. The head was nice and foamy. I get a strong aroma of citrus and a slight aroma of grass. The taste is similar to the nose with strong grassy, floral and citrus flavors and overall more bitterness than sweetness. There isn't as much of bread or biscuit flavors as I have had in other pils. The carbonation is light and the beer feels medium bodied.
Aug 25, 2018
Reviewed by fmccormi from California
4.51/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.51/5 rDev +11.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Straight pour from a 32oz crowler to a tall, narrow pint (Green Cheek nucleated flute). This was filled on Saturday, three days ago, and kept refrigerated since.
Appearance (4.75): This pours out three good fingers of crackly, bone-white foam, capping a just barely hazy, light golden colored body. The head dies down slowly, leaving a pock-marked puck of rocky foam and wide, thickly splotched lacing all around the glass. This is incredibly beautiful, and fitting for the style.
Smell (4.25): In the nose, this is all pilsner, and beautiful. It’s got a grainy, bucolic malt bill that elicits pain de campagne crusts, light hay and floral tones, and the clean, restrained minerality of a classic Old World pilsner. The Hallertau Blanc hops are also somewhat restrained, but they offer a light aroma of orange zest with honey, wildflowers, and fresh cut grass. It’s light and clean and pretty.
Taste (4.5): On the palate, it’s just as clean, light, and crisp as suggested in the nose, but the mineral character is much more pronounced. At no point is it parching or astringent, though—it simply provides a clean, dry backbone to which a faintly sweet, grainy malt body evoking soft pretzels, baking soda biscuits, and lightly sweetened bran flakes, and light, floral hops cling and do their thing. The hops, as mentioned, are very floral, faintly grassy, and slightly citrusy, with a clean, grassy bitterness that feels Noble all the way through. They also add a very faintly funky, passionfruit weirdness type of flavor that I love—especially in its restrained, subtle form. This feels extraordinarily true to style, though the Hallertau Blanc hops offer more of a citrusy dimension with that very faint passionfruit character. And again, that wonderfully bucolic pairing of malt flavors and mineral tones just hits me right in the feels.
Mouthfeel (5.0): The carbonation in this beer is unexpectedly soft and fluffy, but with good volume and just the lightest touch of tingling. It’s light and velvety at the same time. Meanwhile, the body feels a good bit shy of medium-weight, but dry and clean all the way through. The carbonation foams up modestly before washing out, leaving the lightest tingle as it cleans up all over the palate. The finish is bone dry, thanks to the minerality and grassy bitterness, but avoids any parching, starchy, or astringent characteristics. It’s just perfect.
Overall (4.5): Uhh, y’all this beer is fucking baller. It may not be fireworks in a glass, but it’s so perfect in many respects to the style. Truly. They wanted to make an unfiltered, German-style pilsner, and that’s what they did. It’s honestly as good as just about any pilsner of this persuasion as you can get made in the United States. And, of course, what I especially like the Hallertau Blanc dry-hopping. It’s so subtly done that it adds just the lightest accents and lowlights to an already complex, balanced core. Personally, I think this beer is outstanding. Very, very highly recommended.
Apr 04, 2018Appearance (4.75): This pours out three good fingers of crackly, bone-white foam, capping a just barely hazy, light golden colored body. The head dies down slowly, leaving a pock-marked puck of rocky foam and wide, thickly splotched lacing all around the glass. This is incredibly beautiful, and fitting for the style.
Smell (4.25): In the nose, this is all pilsner, and beautiful. It’s got a grainy, bucolic malt bill that elicits pain de campagne crusts, light hay and floral tones, and the clean, restrained minerality of a classic Old World pilsner. The Hallertau Blanc hops are also somewhat restrained, but they offer a light aroma of orange zest with honey, wildflowers, and fresh cut grass. It’s light and clean and pretty.
Taste (4.5): On the palate, it’s just as clean, light, and crisp as suggested in the nose, but the mineral character is much more pronounced. At no point is it parching or astringent, though—it simply provides a clean, dry backbone to which a faintly sweet, grainy malt body evoking soft pretzels, baking soda biscuits, and lightly sweetened bran flakes, and light, floral hops cling and do their thing. The hops, as mentioned, are very floral, faintly grassy, and slightly citrusy, with a clean, grassy bitterness that feels Noble all the way through. They also add a very faintly funky, passionfruit weirdness type of flavor that I love—especially in its restrained, subtle form. This feels extraordinarily true to style, though the Hallertau Blanc hops offer more of a citrusy dimension with that very faint passionfruit character. And again, that wonderfully bucolic pairing of malt flavors and mineral tones just hits me right in the feels.
Mouthfeel (5.0): The carbonation in this beer is unexpectedly soft and fluffy, but with good volume and just the lightest touch of tingling. It’s light and velvety at the same time. Meanwhile, the body feels a good bit shy of medium-weight, but dry and clean all the way through. The carbonation foams up modestly before washing out, leaving the lightest tingle as it cleans up all over the palate. The finish is bone dry, thanks to the minerality and grassy bitterness, but avoids any parching, starchy, or astringent characteristics. It’s just perfect.
Overall (4.5): Uhh, y’all this beer is fucking baller. It may not be fireworks in a glass, but it’s so perfect in many respects to the style. Truly. They wanted to make an unfiltered, German-style pilsner, and that’s what they did. It’s honestly as good as just about any pilsner of this persuasion as you can get made in the United States. And, of course, what I especially like the Hallertau Blanc dry-hopping. It’s so subtly done that it adds just the lightest accents and lowlights to an already complex, balanced core. Personally, I think this beer is outstanding. Very, very highly recommended.
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