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Via Beer
- From:
- Via Beer
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 08, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 08, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Clean, delicious and brilliantly clear Italian-style Pils, featuring a killer blend of "S-Hops" -- Spalt Select, Saaz and Saphir. Dry-hopping delivers strong floral pop with an underpinning of herbal/spicy hops and beautiful Weyermann malt.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
4.16/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.16/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
No canning date (released on 6/12/22, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 8/7/22
Pours a bright, clear, deep gold body capped with a finger and a half of choppy, eggshell-white foam; solid head retention leaves a slight, creamy finger of cap, a thin, frothy collar, and myriad soapy layers of webby lacing clinging to the walls of the glass.
Aromas bring a grassy, subtle herbaceousness, leaving musty lemon balanced with a clean, rustic minerality through the middle as underlying brown bread eases to fresh lager yeast and developing white toast accents; a touch of dry honeysuckle marks the closing impressions.
Taste opens to lemongrass and white bread dough subtleties, with more defined bread crusts and sweet straw over the mid-palate fading to wet grass on the back end and white tea suggestions through the finish.
Mouthfeel shows a medium-light body and a fluffy, full carbonation; creamy suggestions sport a subtle, stimulating prickle through the mid-palate, with a clean, wispy grit stimulating a steadily drying finish.
The traditionally forward hop profile of an 'Italian' pilsner shows a welcome restraint, herbaceously expressive while evenly layered with delicately bready malts for balance; a delicate refinement culminating to consummate drinkability.
Aug 08, 2022Pours a bright, clear, deep gold body capped with a finger and a half of choppy, eggshell-white foam; solid head retention leaves a slight, creamy finger of cap, a thin, frothy collar, and myriad soapy layers of webby lacing clinging to the walls of the glass.
Aromas bring a grassy, subtle herbaceousness, leaving musty lemon balanced with a clean, rustic minerality through the middle as underlying brown bread eases to fresh lager yeast and developing white toast accents; a touch of dry honeysuckle marks the closing impressions.
Taste opens to lemongrass and white bread dough subtleties, with more defined bread crusts and sweet straw over the mid-palate fading to wet grass on the back end and white tea suggestions through the finish.
Mouthfeel shows a medium-light body and a fluffy, full carbonation; creamy suggestions sport a subtle, stimulating prickle through the mid-palate, with a clean, wispy grit stimulating a steadily drying finish.
The traditionally forward hop profile of an 'Italian' pilsner shows a welcome restraint, herbaceously expressive while evenly layered with delicately bready malts for balance; a delicate refinement culminating to consummate drinkability.
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