Review: Red Hook Pilsner

Redhook Ale Brewery

Grade: B+

Appearance: Pours the typical pale, golden yellow pilsner color.  The light head fades quickly and leaves minimal lacing.

Smell: Generic American pilsner flavors of grains and corn with some light and grassy hops.

Taste: Opens with crisp notes of straw, honey, some lemon and grass.  Pleasantly grainy with the interplay of of grassy hops and faint biscuit notes.  A very clean, non-adjunct  taste with no offensive aftertastes.

Mouthfeel: Light body with high carbonation.  Hey, it is a pilsner after all.

Drinkability: A good pilsner is perhaps the most drinkable beer style of them all.  This one is a clean tasting pilsner that I could drink all night.

Overall: Redhood didn't reinvent the pilsner style or do much to deviate from it.  What you have here is a cleaner and more balanced pilsner, with no skunkiness (Thanks to BROWN bottles!! Why breweries still use clear or green bottles I will never know!).  I would easily pick this one up over a macro pilsner for a football game or BBQ.