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 | Birra del Borgo My Antonia
Birra del Borgo (AB InBev) Borgorose (RI), Italy | 781 | 3.71 | Find | |
6 | Stone / Maine Dayslayer
Stone Brewing (Sapporo) Escondido, California | 119 | 3.71 | Find | |
7 | Camden Town Beer 2021 R
Camden Town Brewery (AB InBev) Ponders End, England | 11 | 3.69 | Find | |
8 | BrewDog / 8 Wired Dog Wired R
BrewDog Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | 138 | 3.67 | Find | |
9 | Drake's 15th Anniversary R
Drake's Brewing Company San Leandro, California | 63 | 3.65 | Find | |
10 | Dieu du Ciel! 6e Soir (Pinot Noir)
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! Saint-Jérôme, Quebec | 38 | 3.64 | Find | |
11 | Rogue Morimoto Imperial Pilsner
Rogue Ales Newport, Oregon | 730 | 3.64 | Find | |
12 | Camden Town Beer 2019 R
Camden Town Brewery (AB InBev) Ponders End, England | 14 | 3.63 | Find | |
13 | Liquid Riot Blushing Star
Liquid Riot Bottling Company Portland, Maine | 13 | 3.59 | Find | |
14 | Tröegs / Mack / Harris Family Dry-Hopped Imperial Pilsner
Tröegs Brewing Company Hershey, Pennsylvania | 10 | 3.59 | Find | |
15 | Dominion Spring Brew (Imperial Pilsener) R
Old Dominion Brewing Company (AB InBev) Dover, Delaware | 122 | 3.59 | Find | |
16 | Boulevard Smokestack Series: Reverb Imperial Pilsner R
Boulevard Brewing Company (Duvel Moortgat) Kansas City, Missouri | 410 | 3.59 | Find | |
17 | Lagunitas ScareCity #1: Imperial Pilsner
Lagunitas Brewing Company (Heineken) Petaluma, California | 151 | 3.56 | Find | |
18 | Dieu du Ciel! 6e Soir
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! Saint-Jérôme, Quebec | 108 | 3.56 | Find | |
19 | Upright The Clash Beer
Upright Brewing Portland, Oregon | 48 | 3.54 | Find | |
20 | Dogfish Head Golden Era (Shower) R
Dogfish Head Brewery (Boston Beer Co.) Milton, Delaware | 536 | 3.54 | Find | |
21 | Ça Va Brasser! Troisième Saison 2014 R
Brasseurs RJ Montréal, Quebec | 37 | 3.53 | Find | |
22 | Heavyweight Ivy League Pils R
Heavyweight Brewing Company Ocean Township, New Jersey | 60 | 3.53 | Find | |
23 | Full Sail Capsize Imperial Pilsner
Full Sail Brewing Company Hood River, Oregon | 78 | 3.52 | Find | |
24 | Stone Bombastic Lager R
Stone Brewing (Sapporo) Escondido, California | 11 | 3.52 | Find | |
25 | Victory XX Anniversary Imperial Pilsner R
Victory Brewing Company (ABV) Downingtown, Pennsylvania | 49 | 3.52 | Find | |