Ramstein Imperial Pilsner
High Point Brewing Company

 

An Americanized Euro-style pilsner. Bright gold with a creamy substantial white head. Very robust in flavor, toast and grain with a refreshing hoppy bite and a pronounced, sustained dry finish. Superb summer thirst-quencher.

 

 

 

 

Just below average carbonation as well as the same for the body but still a pleasing feel
Aroma is malt,honey, bread and toast,and some sweet citrus fruit and peel
Taste doesn't stray too far from the aroma and reminds me of everything I like about pilsners. Very mild hop bite and sweetness lingers in the aftertaste.
Overall a really enjoyable pilsner

 

 

Love NJ and NYC brews, it's the NE water. This one makes a great strong Pilsner.
a . a clear darker golden body spouting a sea foam white head and lace.
s . oo too faint as are all pilsners, but clean and grassy and floral.
t . taste shines supporting the grassy, floral, and herbal hops over a white biscuit backdrop.
f . Clean ABV well hidden, great summer or fresh beer at lunch time.
o. Great find at EWR.

 

 

not totally sure i would call it imperial at 7% abv, but i really enjoyed this beer. its crisp for being on the stronger side, has a classic european pilsener malt character to it, fresh as can be, and is liberally dosed with noble hops, bitter and spicy and grassy and dry, all of it. its also extremely well carbonated and relatively dry, which helps it be a nice refresher or even a palate cleanser. i enjoyed it a lot with a chicken parm sandwich, which seemed like an ideal pairing to me. the hops are stronger than in most pils types, and thats i think what gives it its imperial qualities even more than the strength or anything. the body is medium, fuller than normal for the style but still easy to drink. what lingers on the finish are a light grain character and the bitter part of the hops, traces of lime zest and dried flowers in there with it. overall a pretty solid brew, i would like to try some more of these ramstein beers, but this was the first i had ever seen of them in some time. good not great, solid food beer.

Got in a BIF from MacMalt. 12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 5/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbhonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemon, orange, citrus zest, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt and light-moderate citrus/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, citrus zest, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, spicy, citrus zest bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, citrus zest, cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate citrus/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast note present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and slightly resinous balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 7%. Overall this is a delicious imperial pilsner. All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate citrus/earthy hop flavors; very smooth, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Not quite the hop punch I expected; but the balance between clean Pils/Munich malts and earthy hops was great. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.

Nice golden-straw color with a thin finger of creamy, near-white head. Thick lacing.

Great crisp aroma with a hint of corn breads d light grassy hops behind.

Tastes a little bigger than a normal pils, largely following the nose, with firm grassy bitterness, very light mint and a touch of sulfur.

Medium bodied with strong carbonation. An all-around excellent crisp pils.

Poured from 12 oz. bottle into Ramstein pint glass. It pours a hazy golden color with a thin milk-white head and moderate lacing. The nose features cracker, grass, lemon peel, banana, clove, and coriander. The taste is hop-forward and relatively bitter. At mid-sip there is dry grass, cracker, lemon, and coriander. At the finish there is a hint of sweet malt and banana on the tip of the tongue. It's crisp and light in feel with lively carbonation, but the 7% ABV gives it a nice pop. Overall, while Pilsner isn't my favorite style I'm enjoying Ramstein's version; it has an edge to it that I didn't expect. There's nothing bland about it.

Picked a sixer at the brewery. Beer looks beautiful in the glass. Clear golden with tiny bubble streaming up the sides. On the nose some hay, grain, lager!
Taste is a lot more pronounced than the nose. Wonderful and bright with more than usual bittering than your usual Lager. Very good.

 

Poured from the bottle into a Libby style pilsner glass. Best before April 2017.

Light foaming created bright white head of just about a finger, but dissolves rather quickly to a small bubbled top and creamy white collar. The body color at one point seems to shine, but then eventually gets a bit dull and has just a touch of haze to it, somewhere between lemon gold, and actually the beer kind of looks orange in a way. Very nice tiny amounts of fine carbonation, no streams, but slow following bubbles.

Clean aromatics give way to lighter herbal hop presence. For an imperial this is pretty subtle on the nose, but also forgoes aromas of huge alcohol or big phenols so far. Light malt sensing base, a bit of chew density just barely but the grain aroma seems lighter almost like a regular pils. However, for imperial this does aim for the lower end of the abv spectrum at 7.

Very different angle on this brew. Good sensing malt backbone, but forgoes bready for more of a thicker body minus syrupy texture and flavors. Slight pasty yeast character with minimal sweetness. The hop angle on this is pretty minimal but it’s a bit surprisingly large and slowly lingering on the swallow, giving to herbal spices that really build but very slowly. Very subtle flavors, but definitely there's some power behind this pils.

It's a bit unexpected as I usually find and Imperial pils to be considerably larger in every aspect, but this one is sort of just dialed in just a bit less so. Nicely controlled, but also a bit subdued, which seems to be the key here. In the end leaves me somewhere in the middle, but otherwise well put together. Easiy the most easiest drinking Imperial pils I've had to date.