Pilsner
Breakside Brewery in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
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6.54
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Our beloved Pilsner, now available in 12 oz cans for the first time!
When we opened our production brewery in 2013, we made a commitment to making a year-round German-style pilsner.
Why? Despite the fact that these beers are time-consuming and technically challenging, we make this style of beer because we love Pilsner.
We import Pilsner malt from Germany and manually add 3,000 pounds to each batch one bag at a time because we believe that to make a great German pilsner, you need great German malt. We source hops from the Hallertau, the famed hop-growing region, which we prize for their mix of floral, herbal, and grassy notes.
And then we wait. This beer is unfiltered, so we rely on natural lagering — long times and cold temperatures — to get this beer bright as sunshine.
Hops: Mittelfruh, Hersbrucker, Mt. Hood
Malt: Pilsner
When we opened our production brewery in 2013, we made a commitment to making a year-round German-style pilsner.
Why? Despite the fact that these beers are time-consuming and technically challenging, we make this style of beer because we love Pilsner.
We import Pilsner malt from Germany and manually add 3,000 pounds to each batch one bag at a time because we believe that to make a great German pilsner, you need great German malt. We source hops from the Hallertau, the famed hop-growing region, which we prize for their mix of floral, herbal, and grassy notes.
And then we wait. This beer is unfiltered, so we rely on natural lagering — long times and cold temperatures — to get this beer bright as sunshine.
Hops: Mittelfruh, Hersbrucker, Mt. Hood
Malt: Pilsner
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4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
As "Breakside Liquid Sunshine Pilsner" 22 oz.Bottle on June 26, 2015. From Hillsdale Liqour Store in Portland, Oregon.Clear pale straw yellow color, huge white head. Bottle keeps pouring head/foam long after opened. Light acidic, malty scent. Malty, light acidic taste. Acidic aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, low bitterness.Could pour as slowly as possible into two glasses, still getting only a minute amount of beer in the bottom of the glass, the rest was head build-up. Bottle kept foaming over even though I poured from it as often as possible, until there were less than 25% left in the bottle.The way the bottle behaves, mixed with the character of the beer, I’d say there is a mild infection in this bottle.Still taste and smell decent enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2015
at 05:00
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is wheat grass and herbs. Thin mouth, herbs, grass, mineral, decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Apr 2015
at 20:53
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Golden with a white head. Aroma of grass, bread, anda sour wet towel. Medium body. Flavor is the same with a slight sweet finish. I really disn’t enjoy this one.
Tried
on 17 Apr 2015
at 19:38
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
On tap at breakside pub Portland. Pours out a light straw color topped with a long lasting white head. Nose is grain grass hops and som spice. Taste is as the nose.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Apr 2015
at 19:28
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
[2/26/15] Draught at Breakside Brewery in Portland. Golden color. Aroma of DMS and a hoppy hint. Flavor has some graininess, a bit of DMS and a bitterish grassy finish. Rather light-bodied.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2015
at 17:03
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Bomber - pours a lightly hazy gold - impressive lace - lively body - nose is big time diacetyl, with some floral hops and a mineral note underneath - soft mouthfeel, creamy carbonation - the diacetyl isn’t as potent in the flavor, but is still present - underneath that it seems like there is a mighty fine pils hiding - medium sweet pils malt, grassy hops, a mineral bite - the diacetyl just totally ruins this.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2014
at 18:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Made in Oregon. Pours translucent lemon/gold with a foamy white head. Aroma of fruit and mild earth/spice. Med body. Flavor is fruity/lemon with earth/spice. It’s pretty flavorful. Hops tend to hide the breadiness very well. Although it finishes less than dry, it works well. Oh so much tastier than the Mittel Europa pils. Well, maybe PU excepted. :)
Tried
on 16 Oct 2014
at 17:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Rich gold, abundant herbal hops on the nose, the palate having some brighter citrus hops (all hersbrucker, though, apparently). There seems like maybe some of the heavier malt/hop dynamic of a pilsner that contrasts with this dynamic. So it’s nice, but also a bit odd.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2014
at 15:48
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft pour listed as liquid sunshine at special brews. Pours a light yellow with a faint malt aroma. Very mild flavor. A little corn there. A little sweet. Decent summer beer here.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Aug 2014
at 14:47
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Draught at Hales Ales Brewery and Pub, Seattle
as Breakside Liquid Sunshine Pilsner, 5.3% ABV
Hazy pale blond color with creamy head. Aroma of straws. Dry mouthfeel; some flavor of corn; ordinary bitterness, a bit lemony, with a hint of grass, but without a clear Hallertau hops evidence.
Not what promised.
as Breakside Liquid Sunshine Pilsner, 5.3% ABV
Hazy pale blond color with creamy head. Aroma of straws. Dry mouthfeel; some flavor of corn; ordinary bitterness, a bit lemony, with a hint of grass, but without a clear Hallertau hops evidence.
Not what promised.
Tried
on 12 May 2014
at 13:05