Victory Prima Pils

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

The famous Victory Prima Pils I’ve heard so much about lately is finally sitting in front of me. Pours slightly hazy with a very pale color and an enormous white head. I can smell the saaz from three feet away! This is one damn pungent pilsner. As I move the glass up to my nose the hop character kind of shifts to one of a much fruiter nature, the fresh hay is very strong on this one, but I’m not getting the honey I usually get from a great pils, not that it has to be there, it’s cool to have something that smells this good but is distinctly different from other beers of this nature. The flavor is nicely bitter with a good lemony citrus character! Plenty of that almost bracingly bitter saaz hop character is all over this one too, and it makes for a really good aftertaste, not something I usually take note of in a beer, but this one finishes particularly strong. There is some good malt flavor for balance here too, it’s really very minimally grainy but has a very nice honey flavor that rounds this one out remarkably. Wonderfully clean, very easy to drink, I’ve almost finished the bottle sitting here typing this, I’m generally finished with my rating well before the bottle is half gone, I really want to drink a lot of this!

Pours clear golden-yellow with a puffy white head that lasts. Aroma of grapefruit and sweet citrus. Bitter up front but also sweet with pineapple flavors. Finishes with a dry bitterness.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz glass into a Pilsener glass. Appearance: The body has a bright golden yellow color with plenty of sparkling carbonation and great clarity. The head is a wonderful thick and creamy topping with good retention. It also makes great lace rings on the glass as I drink. Smell: The aroma hits you in the nose with spicy floral and grassy hops over pale malt. Taste/Mouth: Its flavor is a crisp clean mix of its aroma. Hop flavor steals the show with bold spicy floral and grassy botanical notes. Underneath there is a pale crisp malt base that finishes dry with some nice clean hop bitterness. The palate is light to medium bodied with an easy drinking light wet texture. Carbonation is very active and helps to clean the palate. Notes: This is a great example an American craft beer take on a classic Pilsener. The hops are bolder than there Euro counterparts.

Bottle at The Rake, Southwark, London, shared with harrisoni. Pale gold with a hoppy aroma. A hint of tropical fruit in the taste and a strong bitter finish.

bright golden colour, lovely bitter hop bite and a pils that lingers on the palate!

Pours a golden yellow with a white head. aroma of sweet malts, grass, and some citrus and pine from the hops. flavor is of sweet malt, honey, pine and citrus. has a nice hoppy bitter finnish but is still very drinkable. this beer is a very good pilsner and a very refreshing on hot summer days.

This is a great example of the pilsner! Very tasty on a hot day here in SC! Golden pour with a light white head. Since joining the site I have been trying some great beers but today wanted a light drinker so I picked this one up and its great!

12oz bottle. About as good an example of the pilsner style as you can get. It’s just not a very interesting style overall. But I like that Victory nailed it (yeah Pennsylvania!). Golden-yellow color with a slightly fizzy white head that dissipates. Grassy aroma with nice sweet malt. Crisp and refreshing with slightly bitter grassy hops on the flavor and pale malty sweetness with some honey. Extremely drinkable.