Lancaster Gold Star Pilsener

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

This looked very nice in the glass, a golden color with a slight head and some bubble action. The aroma was a bit strong of hops and most likely hid any other aromas that might have come through. The taste was fair but had a definite medicine-like finish to it. Going down it was pleasant enough, but the aftertaste was not as nice.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Beer pours darker than the typical pilsner with moderate head and little lacing. Weak aroma of sweet pilsner malts. Flavor was mostly sweet pilsner malts and some mild bittering hops, but none of that grassy type aroma I like in a good pilsner. Very bland...almost like they wanted a beer to give the people who ask, "What do you have that's like BUD?"

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

My last of a string of bottled “Pilsners” (sorry, I’m weird: I prefer the European “Pilsener” spelling!) while here in the Norfolk VA area. And overall? It’s definitely one of the better Domestic Pils I’ve had in quite a while. With the exception of some homebrews, I still think the best Pils I’ve had come from across the ocean. But Domestically? This is a nice beer.

Solid marks all around with this one. Solid lacing from the rocky head, that meets the subtle but still marked presence of hops in the nose. Very clean and quaffable in the mouthfeel, that makes putting this down easy-as-you-please. Worth slowing down for, though, since this seems to have just enough things going in both the malt bill and hop bill to keep things rather interesting. Maybe a little on the sweet side of things, but not nearly enough to degrade things, I’d say.

Overall? I could see getting a sixer of this, for watching the ballgame on a lazy afternoon. Might be a good “start of a drinking session”-type of quaffer, too.

Recommended.
//TB