Tröegs Sunshine Pils

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Pours a transparent pale golden with a frothy, and nicely-lacing white head. Aroma of grainy pale malts and some noble hops with a hint of maize. Starts fairly light in body with a mild malty sweetness and turning more earthy, dry and floral saaz hoppy bitter toward a crisp finish. Fairly true to style, but nothing too interesting.

Nice pils from the folks at Troegs. Nice light golden color with a malty aroma. Good carbonation, light body with a sweet clean flavor with a decent amount of bitterness.

Bottled. Beer is a clear, bright yellow color with a small, white, frothy, mostly diminishing head. The aroma is malty with a light note of toasted grain; Hoppy with a light note of resin/pine and herb; Yeasty with a light note of dough. The flavor is moderately bitter, lightly sweet, lightly-to-moderately acidic/dry with a long, light-to-moderately bitter, moderately sweet finish. The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy/fizzy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy light yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), lightly to moderately hoppy (flowers, herbs). Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Decent.

This is the first Troegs beer that I didn’t like. Poured an almost clear pale yellow, resembling urine. Had a hop crispness but a watery body. It didn’t have much appeal at all. It was missing color, character, flavor and body.

Clear gold. Tastes like jelly belly’s buttered popcorn. Somewhat thick and not a summery beer at all.

Unimpressive presentation gives way to my favorite summer beer. It’s crisp, clean, hoppy, palate presents the slightly citrusy, mostly grainy flavor in a beautiful harmony. It’s so straightforward that there isn’t much else to pontificate on, aside from the fact that it is very good. It tastes as though the fine folks at Troegs listened to American macro commercials and said, "Hey, why don’t we make that?" and when they were done came out with an excellent beer.

Bottle: Pours to a clear, pale, bright yellow color with a medium white head that sticks nicely. The aroma is light sweet bread, dough, pale malt, apples, lightly bitter floral & herbal hops, overall fairly mild but spot on. The taste is a mix of floral, grassy, bitter hops and a light dough, bread, apple-like fruit, as well as a hint of lemon rind and a touch of honeydew. Inititally I wasn’t blown away by this one, but as time went on and I really took some time working on the flavors, it dawned on me that the nice light malt and bittering hops are very nicely done. Light bodied, though not too thin, crisp, medium carbonation, with very flavorful hops that resist the trend of over-hopped uber-pilsners.