Premium Pils
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
7.09
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The American twist in PILS is the use of Crystal Lupulin to deliver a signature Sierra Nevada flavor profile.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Can from Trader Joe's in Davis, CA. Pours gold with a moderate white head. Aroma is bready and grassy plus something else. Med body. Very dry, though malt is apparent. Bitter - floral/grass/spice. Nice but not resembling a Czech pils for me.
Tried
from Can
from
Trader Joe's - Davis
on 24 Oct 2025
at 00:16
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Canned 8/18/25, drunk 10/7/25.
Clear with a large, white head falling steadily to ring. Bright golden.
Floral, zesty, spicy, herbal hops are front-and-center, but the honey-like pils malt rests right beside it, balancing gently. Clean and fairly aromatic for a macro lager. There's a big, fresh apple character I get, as well. Maybe a product of the yeast?
Juicy, round, sweet apple and honey with big, zesty, fresh herbal hops. Good bitterness, though not too much, with ample malt depth and attenuation. Clean and drinkable, though a bit flabby at points. Lots of fresh herb kind of at odds with the sweet apple. Kind of a weird, heavy pepperiness lingering.
Clear with a large, white head falling steadily to ring. Bright golden.
Floral, zesty, spicy, herbal hops are front-and-center, but the honey-like pils malt rests right beside it, balancing gently. Clean and fairly aromatic for a macro lager. There's a big, fresh apple character I get, as well. Maybe a product of the yeast?
Juicy, round, sweet apple and honey with big, zesty, fresh herbal hops. Good bitterness, though not too much, with ample malt depth and attenuation. Clean and drinkable, though a bit flabby at points. Lots of fresh herb kind of at odds with the sweet apple. Kind of a weird, heavy pepperiness lingering.
Tried
from Can
from
Crafted
on 07 Oct 2025
at 23:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at The Beer Junction, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out light grassy hops, crackery malt, and straw. Flavour is grassy, with mild bitterness, straw, and biscuity malt. Timid and lacking pizzazz, but it’s alright.
Tried
from Draft
from
The Beer Junction
on 06 Oct 2025
at 05:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Beer Junction. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Dry grass and cracker malts on the nose. Flavour is crisp with notes of dry grass and cracker malts. Medium carbonation. It's okay, could be more aggressive, especially on the carbonation front.
Tried
from Draft
from
The Beer Junction
on 05 Oct 2025
at 03:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours clear yellow into a willi. White head with good retention turns soapy as it recedes to skim surface. Grass, biscuit and pine aromas. Crisp with sweet caramel, hay and biscuit upfront turning to lemon joy before dry earth in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 17 Sep 2025
at 21:53
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Can
from
Horrocks Farm Market
on 15 Sep 2025
at 22:08
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pour out of the cute little 8.4oz can is a bright but very light gold with a large white head. Aroma is a very herbal and spicy hop. The flavor is about the same. A very upfront herbal spicy hop with some non-descript generic malt. This was a pretty good hop forward pils.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2025
at 23:34
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9.5
Super nice crisp and clean pilsner. Really good. Bright golden and clear. Nose is fresh grassy new mown hay type hop, a little spiciness, crackery malt profile with a nice medium bitter finish. Light to medium bodied, semi-dry. Truly a great one. I like these little 8.8oz cans they sell it in but they're kinda pointless because you need to drink 2 of em, but thats OK, drinking 2 is easy!
Tried
from Can
on 05 Sep 2025
at 20:59
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Aroma is floral, bready, peppery. Taste has a mild to moderate herbal bitterness backed by light bready malt sweetness.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2025
at 03:34