Baron Pils (USA)

Brewed by Baron Brewing & Lunar Brewing
Style: Pilsener
Seattle, Washington USA

22 oz bottle from 99 bottles in Federal Way, WA. Pour is pale straw golden, only a slight bit of haze and carbonation bubbles. Smallish white head fell pretty quickly. Aroma of some spicy, earthy hops, muddled in with some graininess (corn? I would imagine not). The hops are muted in addition to being muddled. Taste has the earthy mineral backing and some hoppiness. The taste, particularly the finish, was a bit dirty tasting. Decent palate. Drinkable, just not real clean. Was just a touch more tasty than your typical pale lager.

Faint golden body with light head. Aroma is grassy with faint bready malts. Quite sweet upfront with no real hops to carry it through. Somewhat corny finish.

Another shared by Skyview. As someone who truly appreciates and enjoys pilsners, I can’t understand why this one is rated so high in its style. Strange, light pink color. Moderate foam on top of the beer, but an odd, flat feeling on the palate. Just a hint of hops, and they are hard to taste without a big sip.

Thanks to Skyview. Pours a very light color, almost pink, like a white zin. Aroma is a little fruity, maybe cherry. Slight bitterness in the taste. Clean, grainy finish.

Poured from a 22 oz. bottle. Pale, watered down apple juice or ginger ale. Aroma of what might be expected from a stale can of Canada dry; ginger, lime zest, diet rite, honey and bland apple; tepid, odd, and off. Sesame seed bitterness, but not a trace of hop. Banana, ginger, and papery fruit seeds define the flavor; as hard to comprehend as it is to describe. Whimpers of noble hops with a bit of grassy dryness fail to produce any substantial flavor or degree of bitterness; our sample has none of the floral zestiness that others have described. Creamy and limp in the mouth; finishes weakly with some vanilla, sourdough and sugar. Very dried out. Certainly a failure of a pilsner; very confusing and off-putting, and obnoxious to drink. Thanks for sharing, Bob.

[Bottle, thanks Skyview] Pours a really, really unusual color--Stine nailed it when he said it looked like ginger ale--with a small white head atop it. Virtually no aroma. Taste is grainy with very little going on with it. Water thin mouthfeel. Really quite an unpleasant, and strange beer.

Purchased a single 22-oz bomber from Liquid Solutions in Oregon. Pours an unusual very light and clear White Zinfandel peach with a fast dissolving off-white head that dissipates clean. Aroma of light sourdough bread, grassy hops, a touch of lemon zest, and American yellow cheese. Taste is a watery biscuit flavor, light to medium bodied with some carbonation with light flavors of corn grits, lemon zest and a touch of toffee. Finish is light, slightly watery with an aftertaste of sourdough bread and lemon zest. One of the strangest pilsener beers I’ve tried.

I’ve been wanting to try this for a long time! INTENSELY floral, huge grass component to flavor. Aroma is flowers and pencil shavings. Some sourdough bread type malt. A little thin, but very flavorful. Weird color: it might be the lighting or perhaps a flashback, but the yellow is tinged with pink! I have no idea what is up there. I could drink a ton of this. Quite good. Bomber from LiquidSoultions.