Burial Beer X Halfway Crooks Beer Sturdy Belgian-Style Pilsner

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This Belgian-Style Pilsner, Sturdy, is a collaboration between Burial Beer (Charlotte, NC) and Halfway Crooks Beer (Atlanta, GA) for Burial’s 12th anniversary. This beer is 5.5% ABV, brewed with Belgian Pilsner malt from Dingemans in Belgium. This Pilsner is hopped with Brewers Gold. I went down to South Carolina and purchased this from Southern Spirits (www.southernspirits.com). They have a good selection of beer/craft beer. I recommend shopping there. This Pilsner pours a golden color with a two-finger, slow-rising white head. The aroma is dry, crisp, herbal, and biscuity. The taste is crisp, dry, herbal, and biscuity. It has a very light bitterness. The herbal flavor comes from the Belgian Pilsen malt and the hops. That is a good flavor. This beer has a light mouthfeel. This beer has a light herbal dry finish with a delightful dry note. The aftertaste is crisp yet dry and biscuity. This beer is interesting, and I give an A. A different take on a Pilsner. It is one that you should have. So get Sturdy Belgian-Style Pilsner. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

Divine Barrel Brewing Czech Pils Czech-Style Pils

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Brewed in Charlotte, North Carolina, by Divine Barrel Brewing, Czech Pils is a Czech-style pils or Bohemian Pilsner that comes in at 5.2% ABV, available in a summer release (divinebarrel.com). I found this pilsner locally at Total Wine (totalwine.com). This Pilsner pours a yellow color with a two-finger, sticky white head that leaves behind beautiful, thick, foamy lacing. The aroma has a bitterness to the nose and is malty, biscuity, and crisp. The flavor is light on bitterness, sweet, biscuity, clean, and with mild carbonation. This has a light feel in the mouth. Then it finishes with a light, bitter yet sweet flavor. The aftertaste is light sweetness, biscuity, and clean. This is a good beer. I am not a fan of the light bitter note. I give this Czech Pils a C+. You can go and get this one, but I would not rush out for it. I will say it’s good for a hot day, it’s refreshing. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibility! Cheers!

Hopfly Brewing Co. Blender Series Bootleg Fireworks

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Saturday, I found a new bottle shop Frank’s Beer Shop (Franksbeershop.com) in Charlotte, North Carolina. They don’t have big draft selections. But they do have a good selection and single cans to enjoy there. They also have packaged beer to go. I bought Hopfly Brewing Co. Bootleg Fireworks. This is a Blender series fruited sour beer. This beer is 6.5% ABV. This beer has Key lime, lemon, raspberry, and cherry. This beer pours a deep red and has a one-finger deep pink head. This beer pours slightly thick. The aroma is of cherry, lime, and lemon fruit. It is tart and sour-smelling as well. The taste is of lime, cherry, lemon, and raspberries. The flavor is also sweet, sour, and tart. This beer finishes the same way it starts. The aftertaste is tart/sour fruit that lingers. This is a good fruited sour beer that I give an A+. I recommended it too. It has good fruit sour flavors that aren’t too strong. It was delicious. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Divine Barrel Brewing Kellerpils

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Kellerpils from Divine Barrel Brewing (https://divinebarrel.com) in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a 5% German-style Kellerpils Lager. Keller means cellar in German. Kellerpils is a Cellared Pilsner that is unfiltered and unpasteurized. I bought this beer from the local Whole Foods Market. This beer pours a slightly cloudy yellow with a one-finger, steady fading white head. The aroma is lemony, sweet, and crisp. The taste is sweet, crisp, with a faint hoppy note. Some light lemon flavor also grows and lingers a bit on the aftertaste. It’s not a strong lemon flavor. The aftertaste is crisp and slightly yeasty/sweet. This is a delicious Kellerpils. I give this an A. It is close to real German Kellerpils, just not as bold. I would not pass up the opportunity to drink this Kellerpils from Divine Barrel Brewing. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Bohemian Pilsner

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Bohemian Pilsner from Burial Beer Co. in Asheville, North Carolina (https://burialbeer.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJOrM9CbYCxpAdNizGO9TiC4ofYyJeIzBK9laNMvKWXqztqEa9) is a Czech-inspired Pilsner. This 4.9% ABV Pilsner has Bohemian Pilsner and a touch of Vienna malts. It is hopped with Saaz, HBC-1334, before cold conditioning in lager tanks. This beer pours yellow with a two-finger pillowy white head. This head doesn’t seem to fade and leaves behind beautiful lacing throughout the Pilsner glass. The aroma is sourdough bread, with a light sweetness, and clean. The flavor is also of sourdough bread, with some sweet notes, and a clean finish. The finish is also semi-sweet, but that fades pretty quickly. The aftertaste is faded bread notes that do linger for a moment. This is a delicious Pilsner. It is an A+. This is a beer you can have a few of. It is a good sessionable Pilsner that I highly recommend. You can find this at Southern Spirits (https://www.southernspirits.com) and Total Wine (totalwine.com). Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Our Hearts of Ruin Dry-Hopped Pilsner

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This Burial Beer Co. (https://burialbeer.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJOrM9CbYCxpAdNizGO9TiC4ofYyJeIzBK9laNMvKWXqztqEa9) beer is a dry-hopped pilsner called Our Hearts of Ruin. It is 5% ABV, mashed with Pilsner malt, and double-dry hopped with new harvest Motueka and Hallertau Blanc hops. Burial says this is a west-coast-inspired lager. This beer pours golden yellow with a three-finger head that leaves thick lacing behind. The aroma is slightly hoppy and crisp. It has a lemon and vegetable scent as well. The flavor is crips and somewhat hoppy with a sweet wine like taste. The mouthfeel is light with this beer. This beer has a dry finish that is a little hoppy. The aftertaste is also dry, but the sweet wine note is gone. This is a good beer, A from me. The hops slightly overpower the malt of this pilsner. But that does not hold this beer back that much. It is a delicious beer that is worth trying. I recommend it. You can get this at (https://www.southernspirits.com) and Total Wine (https://www.totalwine.com). Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Suntory The Premium Malt’s

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In the United States, we only have Whiskey from Suntory, and we never see any other products they make. One such product is The Premium Malt’s an all-malt beer from Suntory. This is a 5.5% Pilsner from Suntory Beer Limited in Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. I had this with my first meal on Japan Airlines. This beer pours a deep gold that is almost copper. The aroma is very malty and has a malt sweetness. The taste is big on the malt flavor. It is a bold malt bomb, with nice smoothness. It tastes like it is one hundred percent malt. This has a medium feel to the mouth. Then it has a malted finish with a sweet malted aftertaste. This pure malt beer is good but loses some of its tasty flavors as it warms. I give this a B-. You need to have this one cold, and yes you should try The Premium Malt’s if you see it. It is good if you are into bold malt-flavored beers, and it goes well with Ramen and other savory Japanese foods. Please stay safe, be kind to each other and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Orion Beer Co., LTD Orion Premium Draft Beer

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This Japanese rice lager is imported from Okinawa, Japan. A typical rice lager uses rice instead of corn. This beer is 5% ABV and was purchased from my local International grocery store, Super Global Mart or Super G Mart. They have a decent selection of International beer/craft beer and some domestic beer and craft beers. I highly recommend you check it out if you live or are in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. I have had Orion at a restaurant but never had it to review until now. This beer pours golden clean with a thin, quickly fading one-finger white head. The aroma is semi-sweet and dry. The smell isn’t much, but it does smell like a domestic U.S. beer. The flavor is sweet, smooth, dry, light, and clean. This beer goes down easy. This has a light mouthfeel. Orion finishes with a dry and light sweetness. There is not much aftertaste, but it has a faint, sweet dryness that goes away as quickly as it started. This beer is great with Asian food. Orion Premium Draft is a D+. It is okay on its own, but with food, it’s a bit better, and I think it is good enough for a try. This January I will be doing a dry January, so I will be back to normally scheduled reviewing. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!