The Imperial Pilsener, or Imperial Pils, is a crisp, clean, medium-bodied, attenuated, gold-colored, bottom-fermented lager that usually showcases modern American or New World hop varieties. Similar to a German Pils in appearance, but with a more pronounced malt profile and bitterness as well as an higher alcohol content. There can be some overlap with some stronger India Pale Lager examples altough the clean Pils profile must be prominent.
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Name | Ratings | Score | | |
1 | Drake's 15th Anniversary Bourbon Barrel Lager R
Drake's Brewing Company San Leandro, California | 114 | 3.83 | Find | |
2 | BrewDog / Cambridge / Stone Juxtaposition Black Pilsner R
Stone Brewing (Sapporo) Escondido, California | 252 | 3.76 | Find | |
3 | Marble Into The Void R
Marble Beers Salford, England | 17 | 3.73 | Find | |
4 | Samuel Adams Imperial Pilsner R
Boston Beer Company Boston, Massachusetts | 970 | 3.73 | Find | |
5 | Camden Town Beer 2021 R
Camden Town Brewery (AB InBev) Ponders End, England | 11 | 3.69 | Find | |
6 | BrewDog / 8 Wired Dog Wired R
BrewDog Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | 138 | 3.67 | Find | |
7 | Drake's 15th Anniversary R
Drake's Brewing Company San Leandro, California | 63 | 3.65 | Find | |
8 | Camden Town Beer 2019 R
Camden Town Brewery (AB InBev) Ponders End, England | 14 | 3.63 | Find | |
9 | Dominion Spring Brew (Imperial Pilsener) R
Old Dominion Brewing Company (AB InBev) Dover, Delaware | 122 | 3.59 | Find | |
10 | Boulevard Smokestack Series: Reverb Imperial Pilsner R
Boulevard Brewing Company (Duvel Moortgat) Kansas City, Missouri | 410 | 3.59 | Find | |
11 | Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower) R
Dogfish Head Brewery (Boston Beer Co.) Milton, Delaware | 536 | 3.54 | Find | |
12 | Ça Va Brasser! Troisième Saison 2014 R
Brasseurs RJ Montréal, Quebec | 37 | 3.53 | Find | |
13 | Heavyweight Ivy League Pils R
Heavyweight Brewing Company Ocean Township, New Jersey | 60 | 3.53 | Find | |
14 | Stone Bombastic Lager R
Stone Brewing (Sapporo) Escondido, California | 11 | 3.52 | Find | |
15 | Victory XX Anniversary Imperial Pilsner R
Victory Brewing Company (ABV) Downingtown, Pennsylvania | 49 | 3.52 | Find | |
16 | Black Forest Imperial Pilsner R
Black Forest Brew Haus Farmingdale, New York | 19 | 3.5 | Find | |
17 | Back Road Christmas Ale 2007 R
Back Road Brewery La Porte, Indiana | 43 | 3.49 | Find | |
18 | Mommeriete t Is Mooi West R
Mommeriete Brouwerij Gramsbergen, Netherlands | 32 | 3.48 | Find | |
19 | Stone (Berlin) / Lost Abbey GBC 4 Sticks n' Stones R
Stone Brewing - Berlin (Sapporo) Berlin, Germany | 27 | 3.48 | Find | |
20 | The Bruery Humulus Cornballer R
The Bruery Placentia, California | 27 | 3.47 | Find | |
21 | Amager / Three Floyds Swole Mole R
Amager Bryghus Kastrup, Denmark | 97 | 3.47 | Find | |
22 | Alpine Beer Company Emerson Lager R
Alpine Beer Company (Tilray) Alpine, California | 37 | 3.47 | Find | |
23 | Evil Twin Kiwi Imperial Pils R
Evil Twin Brewing Queens, New York | 101 | 3.46 | Find | |
24 | Schell Arminius R
August Schell Brewing Company New Ulm, Minnesota | 24 | 3.46 | Find | |
25 | Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Imperial Pilsner R
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Chico, California | 314 | 3.45 | Find | |