Burial Beer Extra Dry-Hopped American Pilsner

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This is an Extra Dry-Hopped American Pilsner. It is made with the finest malt and double dry-hopped with hand-selected El Dorado, Citra, and Nelson. It is finished with a dab of Citra Cryo. This beer is 5% ABV. Extra pours yellow with a light green tint and two-and-a-half finger white creamy slow head. The aroma is buttery, hopped, light and crisp. The flavor is buttery, light on hops, and crisp and refreshing. This Pilsner has a light mouthfeel. Then, it comes to a light, bitter, crisp, and refreshing finish. The aftertaste is lightly hopped with a light butter-crisp. Extra is a delicious Pilsner that is an A. I recommend you drink it. It is not overly hopped and bitter, just enough to add complexity to the overall flavor. I would go back to this again and again. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Royal Bliss Brewing Co. Denver’s First Pilsner

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This Pilsner from Royal Bliss Brewing Co., Denver’s First is 5.4% ABV from Denver, North Carolina. This award-winning Pilsner pours yellow with a one-finger white head that doesn’t stick. The aroma is light, semi-sweet, and malty. The flavor is clean and crisp with light bread and malt. There is a very light/fant bitter note in the flavor. This beer has a light mouthfeel. The finish is crisp with a very faint bitter malt note. The aftertaste is breaded malts. This is good but there is that very light bitter note. I give Denver’s First a C+. This is just above average for me. It is refreshing and good. But I think there are some better pilsners. This might be something that could grow on the more I have it and I might just re-review this Royal Bliss Pilsner sometime soon, just to see if it is any better. I think Royal Bliss is brewing great beers that I enjoy and so should you! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Royal Bliss Brewing Co. 73 & Hazy New England IPA

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Royal Bliss Brewing Co. makes 73 & Hazy a New England IPA in Denver, North Carolina. This IPA is 7.5% ABV. Royal Bliss has been in operation since 2019. This IPA pours a hazy yellow with a two-finger bright white head. The aroma is juicy and tropical with mango, passion fruit, papaya, and bitter notes. The flavor is bitter with tropical juicy fruits like papaya, passion fruit, and light mango. This is really fruity. This has a medium mouthfeel. This IPA finishes with a bitter tropical fruit flavor. The aftertaste is more of the finish with a little more bittering notes. This hazy IPA has such good flavors that it is hard to notice that it has 7.5% ABV. Royal Bliss’s 73 & Hazy New England IPA is definitely an A+. I highly recommend it! I will be looking forward to more, from Royal Bliss Brewing Co. On another note Best Beer Blog was recently featured on Rent.com Blog Summer Thing To Do in Charlotte. Go click on the link below to check it out! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Summerfest Sumer Lager

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Summerfest Summer Lager from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is a new seasonal beer, available only from April through July. This is a Pilsner that is 5% ABV. This Pislner has Munich, Pilsner, and Two-row Pale malts. It has Munich, Pilsner, and Two-row Pale hops. Lager yeast is used here as well. This beer pours gold with a thin clear/white head, that goes quickly. The aroma is crisp and clean, and it has a light sweetness. The flavor is smooth, clean, and crisp. It has a sweetness to it with a light hoppy flavor. The mouthfeel is light. This beer has a crisp finish, sweet yet bitter, and smooth aftertaste. This tastes more like a lager than a pilsner It’s refreshing and the overall flavor is not too strong and/or overpowering. This is a good beer. I give this one a B-. It needs just a pinch more sweetness. But I would definitely go for this again and so should you. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Brauerei Ayinger Bavarian Pils

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This beer imported by Merchant DuVin is Bavarian Pils from Brauerei Ayinger. This beer is brewed in Aying, south of Munich, Germany. They have been brewing beer since 1878. This Pilsner is 5.3% ABV. Ayinger uses aromatic hops from the Hallertau region of Germany in this highly fermented (bottom-fermented) beer. This Pils pours golden with a one-finger light white head. The aroma is sweet, bready, light, and floral. I think the hops in here are giving that floral smell. The flavor is sweet, floral, dry, clean, and light-bodied. This has a light feeling in the mouth. Then it finishes clean and dry with a dash of sweetness. The aftertaste is clean with less of a dryness. Nothing really sticks around in the aftertaste. This beer is a better version of all the domestic macro pilsners. This Bavarian Pils is a B. Ayinger has brewed a very easy-to-drink beer with this Pilsner. You can have a few of these without tiring of the flavor(s). I highly recommend this pilsner. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer x Okay Beer Threads Modern Pilsner

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Threads Modern Pilsner is a collaboration between Burial Beer and Okay Beer. This Pilsner’s proceeds go to help the Leaf Feather Fun, which benefits global arts in New Orleans. This Pilsner is fermented with experiential Thiol-Maximizing yeast. It also hopped with Mittelfuh and Motueka hops. This beer is 4.9% ABV. This beer pours a lemon yellow with a three-finger bright white head. The head is slow to fade. The aroma is Lemon/berries, light hoppy notes, and malted. The flavor is light hoppiness, lemon, berries, malty, and semi-sweet. This has a light mouthfeel. This beer finishes with a little hoppy lemon flavor. The aftertaste is slight hops that don’t stick around. This was not what I was expecting from a Pilsner. That’s not such a bad thing. I give Threads Modern Pilsner a B-. It wasn’t as crisp as most pilsners. I would have this again, and is one I’d recommend. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Founders Brewing Co. Mortal Bloom Hazy IPA

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This Hazy IPA is Mortal Bloom from Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This beer is 6.2% ABV. This IPA has Citra, Mosaic, and cascade hops, It also has 2-row, wheat malt, and oats. This beer pours a bright yellow with a one-finger bright white quick head. The aroma is tropical fruits, citrus fruits, and light bitterness. The flavor is pineapple, mango, melon, grapefruit, orange, and juicy bitterness. The bitterness is light, as is the mouthfeel. This beer has a fruity, bitter finish. This has a juicy tropical fruit aftertaste. This is an easy-drinking beer for spring/summer. It is light on flavor but good. I give this a B+. The fact that it is easy to drink and 6.2% keeps it from being rated any higher. But I still recommend Motral Bloom Hazy IPA. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Fatty’s Beer Works High Style Italian Pilsner

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This High Style Italian Pilsner beer is from Fatty’s Beer Works in Charleston, South Carolina. This beer is made with Pilsner Malt, and Hallertau Mittelfrüh (the Kaiser of German hops). This beer is dry-hopped with Tettnang hops. This beer is 5% ABV. Fatty’s Beer Works is named after the brewery’s founder’s college nickname given to him by his fraternity brothers at Clemson University. This beer pours a golden color with a bright white two-and-quarter-finger head. The aroma is light hop note, lemon/white grape, and bread crust. The flavor is white grape, bread crust, light bittering notes (towards the back of the tongue), and tartness. This beer feels light on the pallet. This pilsner finishes with a light bitter note and some slight fruity flavor. The aftertaste is faintly tart and clean. This is a beer is one that I could go right back to over and over. I give High Style an A+. It should not be missed, I highly recommend this beer from Fatty’s Beer Work. It has an overall clean and balanced flavor and it is delicious. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Fonta Flora Brewery Pocket Lunch

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This beer is Pocket Lunch from Fonta Flora Brewery in Nero, North Carolina. This beer a Belgain-style Kölsch is 5% ABV and is aged on coriander, Earl Gray Tea, elderflower, fresh lemon, and orange zest. This beer uses fresh local well water and 83% local ingredients. This Kölsch pours a yellow color with a two-finger semi-quick fading white head. The aroma is earthy, floral, and spiced. The flavor is earthy, and floral at first. Then it’s spiced (coriander). There is a little burnt flavor. On the back of the tongue, you get lemon and orange. This beer finishes with a spiced floral flavor. The aftertaste is a combination of floral fruit with spices. This is a light feeling in the mouth. I can taste exactly where one flavor ends and another starts. That means the flavors aren’t melding with each other. That’s no good in my opinion. The burnt flavor in the middle is off-putting for a second until the fruity flavor comes in lightly. Pocket Lunch gets a D+. It was a rollercoaster of flavors in my mouth. This beer had been going back and forth between liking it and not liking it. I don’t recommend it. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Hi-Wire Brewing Elated Winter IPA

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The beer is Elated Winter IPA from Hi-Wire Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina. It is 6.2% ABV with Michigan Chinook and Idaho 7 hops. This beer is a wintertime seasonal beer. Elated IPA pours a darker orange color with a marshmallow white two-and-a-quarter finger head. The head is slow to fade. The aroma is piney, citrusy, orange peel, and bitter. The flavor is citrusy with orange and orange peel. There is a pine note with malts, caramel, toasted bread, and bitter notes. This beer has a near-full feeling in your mouth. Then it has a piney bitter citrusy finish. Then comes an aftertaste of bitter pine with light citrus fruit. This Elated Winter IPA was good and reminded me of a more traditional IPA. This winter IPA is an A-. The malt and pine notes could have been a little more pronounced. Other than that it was good. I recommend Elated Winter IPA. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!