Edel Pils Premium
Pfungstädter Brauerei
- From:
- Pfungstädter Brauerei
- Germany
- Style:
- German Pilsner
Ranked #683 - ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- 80
Ranked #36,404 - Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 14.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 15
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 16, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 01, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden
3.33/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours a clear yellow with fine head.
Smell is pretty skunky to begin with. When the skunkiness subsides, notes of white bread, knäckebröd and florals emerge, along with a slight butteriness.
Taste is clean and crisp with a soft breadiness and some floral hops. Moderate bitterness and a hint of skunkiness in the beginning.
Mouthfeel is thin to medium, well carbonated.
Overall, a good pilsner. Nothing to write home about, but pretty solid.
Jun 19, 2020Smell is pretty skunky to begin with. When the skunkiness subsides, notes of white bread, knäckebröd and florals emerge, along with a slight butteriness.
Taste is clean and crisp with a soft breadiness and some floral hops. Moderate bitterness and a hint of skunkiness in the beginning.
Mouthfeel is thin to medium, well carbonated.
Overall, a good pilsner. Nothing to write home about, but pretty solid.
Reviewed by mooseisloose from Florida
3.49/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.49/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Picked up at Aldis for a song. Popping the top I get a waft of nice hops and malt. Pours to a pale yellow with a bright white head. Taste is solid malt pils with a balanced hopping. This is a nice beer for 0.79 euro.
Sep 20, 2019
Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.77/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From the bottle, it pours a clear yellow golden color with a modest, somewhat long lasting head. Lacing as you enjoy the beer. Decent hoppy scent of a pils. The taste is pilsner bitter and nicely refreshing. Nice!
Jun 03, 2019
Reviewed by KeiferJennings from Canada (AB)
4.1/5 rDev +19.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +19.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
My favorite budget German Pilsener! Wonderful, earthy, rooted brew with just the right amount of hops for me - very crisp and refreshing. A very drinkable, yummy beer at a fairly reasonable price.
May 15, 2017
Reviewed by Borbly from Canada ()
3.84/5 rDev +12%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +12%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a straw yellow, clear body with lots of soapy white head that laces somewhat as it dissipates. The scent has lots of earthy and spicy hoppiness, and a big malt/alcohol backbone. The taste is very hoppy, while still maintaining lightness with a decent carbonation. Overall a good pils.
Jun 30, 2016
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.94/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +14.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Beautiful golden colour appropriate to the style (nary a chill-haze in sight), capped by two fingers of foam that recedes slowly to a half-finger or so but leaves some lacing. Visible carbonation.
Smells like a solid pils. Vegetal, bitter greens. Spicy saaz, pepper, cracker, pilsner malt, bready. Slightly earthy, slightly musty (but not in a bad way). Grainy.
Taste is appropriately clean and crisp. Light and pretty refreshing. Slight bitter greens, vegetal hops, faint pepper spice, bread/cracker. Light but not watery body, unobtrusive carbonation.
Hell, I actually really like this. Super solid rendition of a style that's easy to overlook, but this one nails both the crisp/clean and the flavour dimensions of the style. Might have to go into summer rotation along with some of the other great European pilsners.
Feb 11, 2016Smells like a solid pils. Vegetal, bitter greens. Spicy saaz, pepper, cracker, pilsner malt, bready. Slightly earthy, slightly musty (but not in a bad way). Grainy.
Taste is appropriately clean and crisp. Light and pretty refreshing. Slight bitter greens, vegetal hops, faint pepper spice, bread/cracker. Light but not watery body, unobtrusive carbonation.
Hell, I actually really like this. Super solid rendition of a style that's easy to overlook, but this one nails both the crisp/clean and the flavour dimensions of the style. Might have to go into summer rotation along with some of the other great European pilsners.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.76/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
500ml can poured into tulip 25/8/15
A clear straw yellow with a couple streams of bubbles feeding a short lived finger of foam that leaves a couple polka dots of lace
S grass, hay, faint spicy hops, noble notes if you will, a hint of apple, dry cracker, and cardboard
T mimics the smell, about on par for the style
M light bodied, crisp and fairly clean finish with just a little grass, soft carbonation
O basic brew but fits the style fairly well, very drinkable and well priced I could see myself grabbing another in rush to get to the lawnmower
it is what it claims, for under 3 bucks you have little to lose
Aug 27, 2015A clear straw yellow with a couple streams of bubbles feeding a short lived finger of foam that leaves a couple polka dots of lace
S grass, hay, faint spicy hops, noble notes if you will, a hint of apple, dry cracker, and cardboard
T mimics the smell, about on par for the style
M light bodied, crisp and fairly clean finish with just a little grass, soft carbonation
O basic brew but fits the style fairly well, very drinkable and well priced I could see myself grabbing another in rush to get to the lawnmower
it is what it claims, for under 3 bucks you have little to lose
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev +9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.74/5 rDev +9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
500ml can, nice to see another addition to the German beer offerings on local bottleshop shelves. The 'Cool Star' tells me that this one is good to go, so giddee-up!
This beer pours (after one of the quietest cracks that I have ever heard) a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some decent mountain tributary lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy crackery pale malt, a bit of apple and pear syrup fruitiness, a twinge of gasohol, and sharp leafy, weedy, and grassy hops. The taste is bready, lightly doughy pale malt, white crackers, ethereal pome fruit notes, fading estery petrol, and more sassy leafy, herbal, floral, and grassy noble hops.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its plainly and stately rendered frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and mostly smooth, those heady old-school hops taking a sniff around, but not much more. It finishes trending dry, the malt trailing off a bit, while the hops and gas-pump essences keep 'er tight.
A pleasant enough version of the style, the general metrics mostly well hit upon, which leads to a tasty, big-boy lager-drinking affair. Nothing thin or insipid here, f(v)olks, and it inspires in me the notion to drink this outside in the actual summertime sunshine, before the Oktoberfest brews and Indian Summer come too soon to bloom.
Aug 23, 2015This beer pours (after one of the quietest cracks that I have ever heard) a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some decent mountain tributary lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy crackery pale malt, a bit of apple and pear syrup fruitiness, a twinge of gasohol, and sharp leafy, weedy, and grassy hops. The taste is bready, lightly doughy pale malt, white crackers, ethereal pome fruit notes, fading estery petrol, and more sassy leafy, herbal, floral, and grassy noble hops.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its plainly and stately rendered frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and mostly smooth, those heady old-school hops taking a sniff around, but not much more. It finishes trending dry, the malt trailing off a bit, while the hops and gas-pump essences keep 'er tight.
A pleasant enough version of the style, the general metrics mostly well hit upon, which leads to a tasty, big-boy lager-drinking affair. Nothing thin or insipid here, f(v)olks, and it inspires in me the notion to drink this outside in the actual summertime sunshine, before the Oktoberfest brews and Indian Summer come too soon to bloom.
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