Precipice
Fine Balance Brewing Company
- From:
- Fine Balance Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.06 | pDev: 3.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2026
- Added:
- Dec 23, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This pilsner is brewed in the German tradition with a drastic departure: we exclusively used NZ hops in the kettle and as a dry hop. This batch features motueka, waiti, and pacifica hops. Our Precipice Pils has an initial hint of sweetness followed by a light bitterness and bright, fruity finish courtesy of a dry-hop of New Zealand Hops.
AROMA: Grassy, Citrus
BODY: Medium, Golden, Soft
TASTE: Citrus, Pine, Balanced Bitterness
FINISH: Cereal & Diffused Bitterness
AROMA: Grassy, Citrus
BODY: Medium, Golden, Soft
TASTE: Citrus, Pine, Balanced Bitterness
FINISH: Cereal & Diffused Bitterness
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Coronaeus:
Reviewed by Coronaeus from Canada (ON)
4/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours an unfiltered straw gold with a bold pillowy head that leaves scattered lacing as the beer is enjoyed.
Cereal on the nose, a light pine note, lemon and some grassy elements mingling together. There is an indistinct tropical note as well.
Taste follows with a more noticeable cereal quality, some grassy/herbal notes and a more distinct citrus hit. There is a solid bitterness that lingers after the finish.
Lighter bodied with a strong effervescence. Enjoyable.
This was a great Pilsner experiment. I tend to enjoy experimental hop combinations in a solid Pilsner. This was among the better I’ve tried and would gladly try again any time.
Apr 16, 2023Cereal on the nose, a light pine note, lemon and some grassy elements mingling together. There is an indistinct tropical note as well.
Taste follows with a more noticeable cereal quality, some grassy/herbal notes and a more distinct citrus hit. There is a solid bitterness that lingers after the finish.
Lighter bodied with a strong effervescence. Enjoyable.
This was a great Pilsner experiment. I tend to enjoy experimental hop combinations in a solid Pilsner. This was among the better I’ve tried and would gladly try again any time.
More User Ratings:
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
4.1/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
March 10 2026
Mar 10, 2026
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
4.25/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From Small Batch Dispatch's March curation. Canned February 9/26. My 18th beer from the Kingston, Ontario brewery, and 4th for 2026. Audaciously and highly regarded by Sundae the cat...
Mar 10, 2026
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.89/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
473 mL can from the Toronto Brewing 2021 advent calendar; dated Nov 10 2021 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a clear golden-yellow colour, capped with an inch of soapy, foamy white head that melts off within several minutes' time. A wavering curtain of lace is left hanging above a frothy collar encircling a filmy cap; looks good to me. It smells of cereal grains, bready malts and grassy hay, with hints of spicy, herbal hops and very mild citrus zest.
A decent-tasting pils - clean, grainy pilsner malts and bready sweetness at first, joined by grassy, spicy noble hop flavours not long afterwards. Subtle hints of lime zest and earthy/herbal bitterness at the finish, lingering into a grassy aftertaste that dries out after a moment or two. Light in body, with moderately crisp carbonation that gives a proper bite to this smooth-drinking, highly sessionable pils. This is not an exciting beer, but I'd happily drink it all night, one after another without complaint.
Final Grade: 3.89, a worthy B+. Precipice is a quality pilsner that I enjoyed from start to finish, and would certainly encourage other lager-loving BAs to seek out and try. It's described as a NZ pils, but the hops are mostly noble in character, as would be typical of any German pils. I guess there's a hint of something citrusy, but they could've just as easily left it at 'pils', forgoing any added expectations that might come with the kiwi appellation. A fine beer, one I'll hopefully return to again.
Dec 23, 2021Pours a clear golden-yellow colour, capped with an inch of soapy, foamy white head that melts off within several minutes' time. A wavering curtain of lace is left hanging above a frothy collar encircling a filmy cap; looks good to me. It smells of cereal grains, bready malts and grassy hay, with hints of spicy, herbal hops and very mild citrus zest.
A decent-tasting pils - clean, grainy pilsner malts and bready sweetness at first, joined by grassy, spicy noble hop flavours not long afterwards. Subtle hints of lime zest and earthy/herbal bitterness at the finish, lingering into a grassy aftertaste that dries out after a moment or two. Light in body, with moderately crisp carbonation that gives a proper bite to this smooth-drinking, highly sessionable pils. This is not an exciting beer, but I'd happily drink it all night, one after another without complaint.
Final Grade: 3.89, a worthy B+. Precipice is a quality pilsner that I enjoyed from start to finish, and would certainly encourage other lager-loving BAs to seek out and try. It's described as a NZ pils, but the hops are mostly noble in character, as would be typical of any German pils. I guess there's a hint of something citrusy, but they could've just as easily left it at 'pils', forgoing any added expectations that might come with the kiwi appellation. A fine beer, one I'll hopefully return to again.
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