Seven Brides Rose’s Imperial PIlsner

Brewed by Seven Brides Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Silverton, Oregon USA

Tap at Eugene City. As to be expected with this style continually, this one ended up bring a big malty thin brew with some hop backing. Sweet malt galore, little bits of honey, and a tiny crisp hope note is in there somewhere. Kinda boring.

Name: Rose’s Imperial Pils
Date: September 19, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Portland Indie
Appearance: cloudy yellow, frothy white head
Aroma: spicy aroma, light dry malt, nice peppery spicyness
Flavor: spicy malt flavor, light pale malt sweetness, balancing earthyness, lingering bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

On-Tap @ Bailey’s Taproom poured into Shaker glass. Pours a cloudy pale gold with effervescent trails up the glass to finger of creamy white head. The nose is filled with malt and earthy-grassy hops. The flavor is sweet and slightly nutty upfront with a grassy hop bitterness that lasts. This beer has a crisp, medium body. I’d say overall this beer comes off a bit harsh.

Tap @ the Mini Beer Fest... Poured very light golden with a white head. Fresh, hoppy and pilsner malt aroma. Tasted like a lighter Imperial IPA. Noticeable hops, but not dominating with bitterness. Light palate with an alcohol sting to it at the end. A buttery bread-like grain quality also.

I was excited to try a beer from this ground breaking brewery. Pilsner doesn’t usually make me excited, but I ordered one anyway. A big bright citrus aroma, well spiced body, with a dry finish. Blond color with a thick foamy head. Seemed like a big well crafted pale lager. Nothing too impressive, but somewhat different than anything I’d ever tried before.

Pint served at Venti’s basement bar in Salem. Unusual looking Double Pilsner, it is sort of hazy bright golden almost like a weissbier, with a small white head that quickly dissapates. Good strong German hop aromas. Very strong hop profile in the taste, is well balanced however by the malts, but the hops do dominate, very much a pilsner however. Some unusual yeastiness present but this sort of helps not hinders the beer. Very nice and complex mouthfeel, not thin at all. Altogether a very drinkable beer for the strength.