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Lightning Elemental Pilsner

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483.1/5.03.06/5.05.5%86.9Flute, Footed Pilsner
Commercial Description:
This is the Lightning Brewery’s take on a traditional lager beer. It is the element of the “Pilsner bier” that we try to capture in our beer: A pale smooth-drinking beer with hints of hop aromas and a crisp natural carbonation. We brew Elemental Pilsner with imported pilsner malt, German strains of hops and selected lager yeast. We further encourage a unique crafted beer “lagered aroma” by extensively aging the beer with the fermentation yeast prior to filtration.
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 TheCheeseMan (538), Saint Cloud, Florida, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/512/20
Apr 5, 2008  
Courtesy SoLan. Pours a crystalline, pale yellow, with a steady and fine bead. Aroma is sweet, but a bit dank. Very little going on here. Flavor is odd, very sweet with almost no discernible hop character. Disappointing, as the other beers I have sampled from this brewery have been much better.


 trokini (1027), San Diego, California, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 1, 2008  
Draft at SD Brewery. Pours clear gold with a bubbly white head. Grass, hay, spun sugar, and grain in the nose. More straw and Saaz in the taste, but mixed with lemon and honey, and something funky (the yeast they tout?). Overall, an okay beer.


 bsierra (213), Vista, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/520/20
Mar 24, 2008  
On draft at Hamiltons. Poured with a nice golden hue with a gentle hops nose. Taste has a light and very smooth feel with a little bit of sweet citrus. This is a great beer and would be perfect to drink on a warm summer day along with a bbq session~


 SDalkoholic (1195), Chula Vista, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Mar 22, 2008  
22 oz bottle from South Bay Drugs. Created virtually no formation of head but did maintain a bright straw gold color. The aroma was a mild with signs of hay and grass. The flavor is mellow with balanced flavor between hop and grainy malts which makes for an easily drinkable pils.


 miketd (679), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Mar 21, 2008  
Bottle from Dirty Martini. Thanks man. Pour is a clear golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma of sweet grain and malts. Flavor is dry and sweet. Pretty clean. Good thirst quencher for sure.


 JMFG (1514), Florida, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Mar 14, 2008  
Courtesy The CheeseMan. Clear golden color with remnants of soapy white head. Sweet grainy aroma, light Saaz aroma, but kind of musky. Taste of wet grain, has an odd off character I can’t place. Just decent.


 stefanje (943), (Santee) San Diego, California, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/512/20
Mar 2, 2008    Updated: Apr 27, 2008
650 ml bottle from Bev4less in Santee. Pours a 14k yellow gold color with a foamy white head that lasts only a short white. The aroma was sweet with cookie dough and sweet malts. The flavor was similarly sweet with spices and cherries rounding out the sides, and a touch of wheat filling in the back end. The mouthfeel was silky smooth. The finish was short and sweet. Overall: Upon first taste I thought this was a kolsch. But, a good pilsner choice.


 doubleo (1104), San Diego, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/103/515/20
Feb 26, 2008  
22oz bomber from SBD. Pours hazy golden yellow with minimal white head, tiny bit of lace. Smells grainy and malty and sweet. Tastes of very mellow, earthy hops up front and then sweet malts toward the finish, grain flavors as well. Medium body, nice active, yet smooth carbonation. If your in the mood for a pilsner, this is a quality one.



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