Pils
Schlossbrauerei Irlbach GmbH & Co.

Pours a clear golden yellow, with moderate foam that turns slowly into persistent lacing. Smell is grain and grassy hops. Taste starts with grain, with malt and then those herbal hops joining later. Feel is very clean due to the carbonation and hops. Overall this seems a little maltier and a little fuller bodied than a prototypical pilsener, which makes it more to my taste, but still with the requisite heavy dose of noble hops.

Part of the variety 24-pack 16.9oz cans Costco $59.99
128 days before best by date
Light clear golden color
Smells of malts, grains
Medium-light mouthfeel
High carbonation
Taste of sweet malts, bitter hops
Overall a fairly good beer.

 

Grassy malty aroma with cereal and grain. Taste is almost identical to aroma,mild sweetness along with grass and grain
Overall a very decent beer

 

 

I've had pilsners that went down easier than this one. It's a little rough. It's drinkable but not one I'd buy again.

Schlossbrauerei Irlbach GmbH & C0 "Irlbacher Premium Pils"
500 ml can coded "15.06.2025 IVH P039130324". Sampled on 30.10.2024
$59.99 / 24 can - Costco's Biergarten Collection, Costco, Christiana, DE

Notes via stream of consciousness: A fairly dark golden body is capped by a finger's width of bright white foam. It's clear and you can see hundreds of tiny bubbles rising within. The aroma is grainy, and perhaps a bit grassy. The taste is unsurprisingly sweetish, bready, grainy, and grassy. It's clean and pleasant with a perfectly balanced bitterness that leaves it sweetish upfront but bitter in the end. I don't mean this is a bad way but the grainy maltiness is reminiscent of what some non-alcoholic beers taste like. In this case it's just rich, grainy, nutty, and grassy Pilsner malt. Perhaps a decoction mash was used, that would also explain the darker than usual color. In the mouth it's medium bodied, gently crisp, and then smooth across the palate. The bitterness lingers gently along with some grassy and herbal character. The head has held up well, although it's a thin surface covering at this point, and the lacing covers almost the entire glass with the exception of some breaks that indicate the places between sips. This is not your standard mass produced Pilsner, it's a little more rustic and has some extra character to it. Could it be a little more refined, perhaps, and I personally think it could use more hops in the aroma but it's within style for a southern German Pils. Where is this from? Ahhh, I'm an idiot, it's from Irlbach. That's a little more than an hours drive northeast of Munich so it all makes sense. I think it's great.
Review #9,062

 

 

500 ml can from the 2024 Biergarten Collection (Costco). The can has a 15 June 2025 Best By date stamped on the bottom.

Appearance. Clear, pale golden body with high clarity and a good white head.

Hop forward with moderate strength for a German Pils, including bitterness, but an unusually dank aroma.

Medium body and carbonation.

From the half liter can in the 2024 Biergarten Collection from Costco, it pours a clear light golden color with a nice white head that slowly reduces and leaves lacing. The nose gets grassy hops, followed by the mouth getting a pleasant bitterness with leaves a light bitterness in the mouth as an aftertaste.