Gordon Biersch Braumeister Selekt Imperial Pilsner Brau (IPB)

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
San Jose, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Footed Pilsner, Lager glass, Stein

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Bottle from the Ingomar Club in Eureka, CA. Pours an orange color with a foamy white head and a lot of lacing. Nose is rich with floral, grassy and similar Nobel hops. Medium to full in body, and smooth in mouthfeel. Really good going down. The flavor is is very rich and tasty. The finish is dry and the bitterness is perfect. A simply excellent beer.

Honey and hay, with much more of the latter, lemon and nut accents. Clear amber, thick yellow head. Medium to full body. Hay, hoeny, and overripe lemon flavor, intense. Bitter grass and lemon zest noble hop finish. Damn, I just gave Gordon Biersch a 4+ rating! And why not, this is a great beer.

Taste hot to me. Pleasant mouthfeel. No bad aftertaste. Nothing much else to add. Decent but will probably not drink again. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

The aroma smelled pretty hoppy. It had a nice medium yellow look when poured. Tasted very hoppy and a little bitter. Gotta admit didn’t care for the mouthfeel. A little to overcarbonated for my liking. But overall a very well crafted brew.

Formidable, painted latch bomber. Hazy, honey colored beer with a fluffy white head -- in short, good appearance. Cereal, malt, Eurolager aroma. Sturdy hopping, but not smash-mouth, as I would have expected from the name. Malty-mashy-sweet, but not sugary. Backend euro-bitterness. A mature and well-developed lager. Medium body, but with backbone. Long, Saazy finish. This was a serendipity -- especially since I got this at a fire sale at Market Square Liquors - marked down from $8.99 to $1.99 for a 750ml bomber.

750mL swing-top poured into a Blvd tulip glass. Pour leads to a very alluring beer. Has a dim-golden bodied with a thick, tall, foamy white head. Very sticky lacing as the head fades. The commercial description states this is unfiltered, which is surprising because the beer is only lightly hazy throughout the pours. No trub at the bottom of the bottle. Aroma is floral/herbal and saaz hops with slightly honey-like and white biscuit malts. In the flavor saaz hops break through the slightly chewy, biscuit malts. Has a mild damp lager note. A small rush of bitterness sets in at the end of the flavor. Has quite a soft and lush feel on the cheeks and a medium body. I would prefer a less malty beer, it definitely isn’t "crisp" but clean, a good meld of strong German hops and clean lagered malts. I would drink this again but a cleaner more attenuated and less malt-centric beer would be my preference for this beer.

Pours a hazy dark gold with a thin white head and aroma of malt and hops. Taste is of massive hops, pine, wheat, caramel and floral notes with a dry, heavy bitter finish. Very good brew, a lot of hoppy flavor throughout

Bottle from BevMo: Poured a golden honey color and created a thick fluffy white head. Aroma is pure with high quality barley malt that gives off a floral scent of pollen and a faint whiff of powdered sugar. The flavor is genuinely bready with a minor taste of oats and whole grained wheat that morphs this beer into something more than just an imperial pilsner. This is reminiscent of European strong lagers/pilsners. Had some serious signs of dust floating around which might have been from light struck bottles in BevMo’s center floor under sun beams or a long shelf life, but this bee still taste fresh and crisp.

Thos was a pretty good beer. Has a definite crispness to it and is pretty bubbly as well. A nice beer but not nine bucks good.

A - Pours a fairly clear golden-orange with a finger of frothy white head. The head fades down at a normal pace leaving behind some nice lacing. S - Aroma is a mix of pilsner and grainy malts with lemon, citrus, floral, and noble hops. T - Starts off with pilsner and some sweet grainy malts with some lemon and citrus hops and some bitterness. Through the middle, some more lightly bready malts come through with some floral and a bit of grassy hops and more bitterness. The finish is a mix of pilsner malts, citrus and floral hops, some bitterness, and some lager esters. M - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth with a sweet and lightly dry finish. D - Very drinkable. Very crisp and refreshing and overall well balanced.