Tröegs Sunshine Pils

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

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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bottle. clear pale gold. lemony aroma. zesty, lemony lime saaz type hop flavors. clean and lightly sweet finish. hop forward pils. belongs with the best of em.

Pours a clear pale yellow with a thin white head. Aroma has straw and light grass...mildly grainy. Flavor is grassy and slightly sweet with grains and a touch of straw and corn. Mouthfeel is medijm and silky/oily with a dry grassy/earthy dry finish.

I poured a 12oz bottle into a pilsner glass. The bottling date was smudged but appeared to be 3/15/13, which would make it a little less than two months old.

Appearance: It’s beers like that that can make a "fizzy yellow beer" appealing to the eye. An almost glowing banana skin hue with a crystal clear body that’s highly effervescent. Forms a good size, bright white, frothy head which is slow to dissipate and leaves plenty of lacing on the glass.

Smell: Mostly a typical lager aroma but with slight cracker notes and a hint of citrus.

Taste: I don’t think I’ll even find a standard all-malt pilsner that will blow my mind, but finding one that’s just plain good is a rarity that I appreciate. That’s Tröegs Sunshine Pils in a nutshell: a true pilsner that’s flavorful and highly drinkable; and that’s good enough for me.

There’s a slight starch or cracker-like flavor throughout the palate. Imagine Saltine crackers sans salt. Also riding shotgun is a dry bitterness, the kind find in old world pilsners. I taste a subtle lemon character on the back end, which makes for a nice change of pace and adds some hop flavor without distracting from the main palette or deviating from the style. While I wouldn’t say this is a terribly delicious palate, for what it is it’s pretty darn good. I can find no off-flavors here. If every pale lager were this good the world would be a different place.

Drinkability: Though technically quite bitter at 45 IBUs, Tröegs Sunshine Pils is still a refreshing and easy to drink beer. The body is of course on the lighter side, but the mouthfeel doesn’t feel particularly thin or watery. The carbonation remains constant throughout. At only 4.5% ABV it’s quite flavorful for the weight and would meet my criteria for a session beer, especially in warmer weather. You could probably make a good shandy with this brew.

---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle->shaker. Very pale yellow with faint white head. No discernible aroma. Taste: oranges, citrus peel, coriander, grains.

Uploading old ratings that were missing comments. Too thin. Biscuity but not much else going on. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Creamy barley malt and hay aroma. Pale yellow with large white head. Mildly sweet barley malt and lightly bitter herbal hay flavor. Nice beer.

Bottle. Sweet barley malt and light soap hops aroma. Clear gold with a large white head. Sweet barley malt and grassy hops flavor. Light to medium body, soft carbonation.

Darught at the Gingerman NYC sept 2012. Very pale clear beer with a small white head. Fruity and a bit vinous aroma. Sourish, fruity flavour. A bornig thin beer.

Clear golden amber with a light head and thin swirls of lace. Taste begins with carbonated malt (yes, carbonation edge right away), followed by mild hop bittering that lingers well into the finish. Only respectable, not memorable.