Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Piercing Pils

Piercing Pils

 

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸

  Cider - Graff Rotating Out of Production
Score
6.55
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 35 Ticks: 62
A Perry-Pils hybrid, Piercing Pils is a Czech Style Pilsner brewed with a White Pear Tea and Pear juice. Both the juice and the tea were added in the kettle during the whirlpool (after the boil) for maximum flavor and aroma contribution. The Pear fruit complexity pierces right through the spicy Czech Saaz hops beautifully, adding a gentle acidity to this pale lager that makes for a crisp refreshing sipper. Amarillo hops add nuanced citrus notes that meld perfectly with the fruit.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5


Bottled. Pours a pretty gold with white head. Fruity aroma with some hay. Peary tartness plus grassyness and mild saaz finish.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:28


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. The best pils I’ve ever tasted. Gold in Color with a large head. Aroma was spicy, grains and hay. Taste was grains , hay and a wonderful well balanced beer.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:13



5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottles from Mondo Vino 11-27-2014

Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2019 at 01:35


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Gold body with a white head. Spicy hop aroma typical of a Saaz hopped Pils. The flavor has a fruity notes, must be the pear. The pear also smooths out the crisp edges from a typical Pils, giving this aspects of an ale. Lightly bitter and easy drinking.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2017 at 18:20


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Pours a clear orange gold with medium frothy white head leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is strong grass and earth hop. Medium body, grass, bitter finish, decent.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jul 2016 at 16:11


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. A big sweet corn pils malt nose. The flavor is sweet toasted malt, citrus, huge dry pilsner malt. Solid. Clean.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jun 2016 at 00:10


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Tried on 29 May 2016 at 16:09


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pour is a hazy golden with a large white head. Aroma is the pear juice with some herbal tea. The pear juice kind of dominates anything the base beer brought to the aroma. Flavor is a little better with more pear juice to start then comes a bready malt. Some saaz hops show up I guess but again the pear juice covers up all the other ingredients and gives this a soapy finish. I would have liked to have this beer without the juice to see what Dogfish could do with a normal pils.

Tried on 12 Mar 2016 at 13:57


5.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

12 oz bottle from Trader Joe’s. Poured in a Trumer stenge glass because why not. Even pouring carefully down the side, it still kicks up a frothy head, over a slightly hazy straw colored malt. Smell has a slight bit of fruit juice to it, but seems to be neither pear, nor pils. Gotta say the taste is not much to my liking, and I realize this "pear tea," whatever it is, is doing most of the talking. My experience with tea in beers has been pretty hit or miss and this one seems more like a "miss." Perhaps if they went without the tea and used more juice?

Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2016 at 22:26