Gordon Biersch Czech Style Pilsner

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
San Jose, California USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Draft at Pacific Place GB. Pours a pale clear yellow with a loose white head that fades rather quickly. Light grainy pils malt, wet grassy hops, touch of corn and hints of fruitiness, but blasting through is a bit of parkay. Everything on the nose is present in the flavor, albeit kind of watery. Not very assertive, watery, dirty, and the butter kills it.

12oz. bottle. Aroma of grassy, vegetal, spicy hop, touches of sulfur and very faint grainy, sweet, honeyish, crackery malt. Clear medium golden yellow in color with a very fine, subsiding head and a few spots of lace here and there. Flavor is moderately bitter to start, showing some grassy, mildly spicy and peppery hop flavors before giving way to some pale, grainy, lightly sweet maltiness late. Moderate degree of effervescence (for the style) on the palate, with a prickly, somewhat slick feel and a medium body. Passable.

Light golden color, Insipid on the aroma, little to no head with minor lacing, medium on the carbonation, crisp with minor bitterness at the end.

Bottle. Light golden, small and fully diminishing head. Moderate malty and sweetish aroma, caramel and some fruitiness with light grassy hoppiness. Body is medium, malty and sweetish, some caramel and light fruitiness, light grassy hoppiness. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, light caramel and light grassy hoppyness. Sweetish pils with caramel - too sweet for me.

Poured into a shaker. Light straw color with small white head. Aroma is sweet corn. Flavor is light and semi-sweet - typical lager. Light bodied with crisp carbonation. Overall it’s a light beer without any real flavor, not very exciting...

Nice and refreshing on draft. Perfect amount of head, but little aroma. Mild hoppiness, but clean finish.

Draft, light straw colored pour, decent grassy hop flavor, saaz bitterness. Decent pilsner

Draft at Gordon Biersch-Columbus. Pours a very pale yellow-gold with big carbonation bubbles and a two-finger white head. Aroma of grassy hops, pale malts, crackers, and straw- not a whole lot to it, but it works. The flavor is a more subdued version of the same, probably overwhelmed by the massive amount of sharp carbonation in this. Not quite as hoppy as I’d like but all right.

Bottle. Enjoyable and easy to drink, almost too easy. A bit malty after taste with a slightly clovey aroma.

Pour is clear gold, thin white head. Somewhat grainy ,earthy aroma. Taste is a nicely balanced.

On draught at the Taipei location. Pours a gold color with slight head, light body but pronounced hop bitterness.