Point Whole Hog Imperial Pilsner

Formerly brewed at Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA

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

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(12oz bottle) Pours a clear golden body with a spare white head. Aroma of grain, honey, grass, and cereal. Flavor of grass, grain, light soap, and citrus.

12oz bottle. Small off-white head atop crystal clear amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, bread, light honey. Taste is moderately sweet, grass, bread, some honey, apricot, alcohol. Sticky medium-full body.

Bottle... Clear yellow lager with a small, creamy, off-white head. As it warms, the aroma displays grainy and medicinal characteristics... and not much more. Full-bodied with a buttery mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Toffee and honey sweetness up front; a nice European hop bite on the backside. The lengthy finish starts off sweet, but ends up a touch bitter and fairly dry. Thanks to otakuden for providing the bottle!

Bottled. Poured slightly cloudy, milky golden with a short cap of white head. The aroma picked up more honey than bready malts, with a deeper level of floral notes and rubbing alcohol.. wet grains on the back.. not in the least bit enticing. The flavor had honey and the aforementioned grains at the core, with prickly citrus and floral notes around.. concentrated lemon juice and boozy heat over tacky malts on the finish. Heavier-bodied with lower-than-expected carbonation.. too hot with too few interesting ingredients.

bottle, thanks to bu11zeye, clear golden color with light foam, sweet fruity aroma, flavor is sweet butterscotchy, maple

Nose is grassy with hints of corn and bread and alcohol. Pours golden orange with a foamy ring. Corny, grassy, bready, fussely, ewith hop bitterness in the finish. Kind of sticky and hot. Not all that good.

12 oz. thanks, alex! pours a cloudy medium golden amber. loose white head. sticky sweet corny fusely nose. sticky thick body. light prickly carb. caramel, corn, flowers, perfume, and fusels on the mid palate. lingering chemically finish.

12-oz bottle from the Orland Park, IL, Binny’s: Usually when I rate one of these "Imperial" lagers, typically a Pilsener, I gripe about the need for a new style on the site, since they are obviously not European Strong Lagers. This one, however, I would have believed to be a mocne (not necessarily a bad thing) had I not poured it from the bottle myself. It pours a deep golden body with a quickly dying white head. The aroma is sweet grainy malt with some alcohol and a touch of lemon zest. Thick mouthfeel. The flavor has grainy malt, alcohol, and a dirty citric bitterness followed by a touch of zinc. Make mine Mocne!

Picked up a four pack from Discount Liquors in Waukesha, Wisconsin. From a 12-oz bottle pours a clear golden amber colored brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates to a thin white ring and some bubble rings on the top. Aroma of golden grain malt, some floral hops, a touch of bubble gum, and powdered sugar. Taste is medium to full bodied, some carbonation with flavors of golden grain malt, some bubble gum, grassy and floral hops and some alcohol. Finish has an alcohol bite and some sharp bitterness, then a semi-sweet aftertaste flavor. Could use a little less alcohol to smooth out the flavor.

This is dark gold colored with a lightly yellowish khaki head. Lots of fast moving bubbles indicate a highly carbonated brew. Sweet malty nose with lots of raw citrus. There is also some bit of hay in the background. This drinks fairly easy for the abv, at first anyway. Then, as you take your first swallow the alcohol hits you in the face. There is some old bread crust and a little bit of pine bark. There is also some bit of grapefruit rind to go with the woody character. Decent and better than most so called Imperial Pilsners I have tried, but you gotta get past the alcohol.