Crown Valley Old School Pilsner

Brewed by Crown Valley Brewing & Distilling
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
St. Genevieve, Missouri USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle- Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a nice head and bits of lacing. Aroma of citrus, fresh grain and hint of sweetness. Taste of caramel sweetness, some citrus and touch of honey. Mild bitterness and a dry finish. Fairly light body. crisp, smooth and refreshing. Easy drinker, nice take on a Czech Pils. Another good beer from a small regional brewer.

12oz bottle. Yellow pour. Overly active carbonation, big bubbles lead to white head. Aroma of bread, banana, some citrus, malts. Tastes a bit tart, citric. Finishes with a heavy bread character. decent balance. Not much hop character to it at all. (3313)

American craft brewers like to give a little extra w/ their lagers, specifically they like to give them about ten percent more alcohol than their European predecessors. Crown Valley Old School Pilsner is like that--not that that’s a bad thing. Well, it’s color is a bad thing, rather cloudy and lacking utterly in a head. It doesn’t taste or smell bad though so we’re on the right track after that. The nose is grassy hops, they might have a more citric twinge than I’d typically expect for the style but it does work. Flavor is fat and malt, most likely from the additional malt use to hit the higher gravity. Hop bitterness balances this reasonably well even though it comes off a bit heavy for the style. Overall, this is a drinkable brew but doesn’t really hit the spot for a good light lager craving.

Draft at the brewpub. It poured a pale golden color with a white head. The aroma was grainy, bready malt, a little citrusy and some grassy hops. The flavor was bready, lemongrass, with a hint of hoppy bitterness.

Savannah, Ga. - Habersham Beverage Warehouse - 12 oz bottle. Medium golden pour, sticky snow-white head that leaves plenty of lacing. Wort-like aroma with some slight saaz hoppy bitter notes. Flavor is standard Czech pils with some bready notes, a hint of honey sweetness and a brief nutty flourish in the finish. Thick enough mouthfeel. Solidly average and enjoyable.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden orange color with a thin off white head. Crisp, clean aroma with some floral hop notes and caramel malt sweetness. Good flavor with hop bitterness in the finish.

Appearance: Pours a very slightly hazed, medium gold body with a smallish, white head.

Smell: Scant scent of pils and lightly malted barley giving a small, small touch of light caramel, breadiness and backed with an ineffectual sniff of noble hops.

Taste: Pils malts with a sliver honey, nearing a twinge of caramel sweetness. Rather low noble hop character and bitterness, both a bit underpowered, leaving it to close out a bit sweetish at the relatively crisp finish.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-plus carbonation.

Overall: It’s a bit humdrum. Just sayin’!

Hazy yellow with a receding white head and not much lacing. Aroma is sweet and malty with noble hops, grassy hops and some bready/pretzel malts. Fizzy mouth feel and a pretty bland beer to boot. Pale malts and grassy hops with a mild spicy finish.

12oz bottle-pours a tight off white head and hazy straw color. Aroma is grain/light malt, fruity. Taste is somewhat sweet caramel/bready-grain/light malt, fruity/slightly spice hops.

Clear gold pour with no head. Aroma is slightly skunked (somehow), pretzel malts. Flavor is crisp, malty. Fizzy mouth feel. Surprisingly unoffensive