Samuel Adams Downtime Pilsner

Downtime Pilsner

 

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Pilsener Rotating
Score
6.46
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 30 Ticks: 26
A laidback golden pilsner that’s full of character. The fun of brewing is that it’s always evolving, even in the world’s most popular beer style, the pilsner, there’s still room for creativity. For our German Pilsner we wanted to showcase both new & heritage hops from the original hop gardens of Bavaria. The classic Noble hops offer a floral spiciness while the new varieties create a fruity & citrusy character for an elegant, light bodied yet flavorful brew.
 

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7.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 8
12 oz bottle from a six pack bought at WinCo. Aroma is wet hay, bready, apple, cardboard. Pours clear golden with a long-sustaining bleach white head; laces a little. Taste is lightly sweet, finishing dry and lightly bitter with a biscuity, grassy hop flavor. Mouthfeel is creamy, body medium, perfect for style. Tasty pils; better than most bottled German examples.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Oct 2015 at 19:49

7.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 10/2015. Pours slightly hazy bright golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and fluffy white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemon, tangerine, melon, cracker, bread, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of citrus/earthy hops and pale malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, tangerine, melon, cracker, bread, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Moderate amount herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, tangerine, melon, cracker, bread, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Moderately dry finish. Very nice robustness, complexity, and balance of citrus/earthy hops and pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavors with minimal yeast ester notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/sticky, and lightly creamy/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish as expected of 5.2%. Overall this is a very nice German pilsner style. All around good robustness, complexity, and balance of citrus/earthy hops and moderate pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2015 at 20:01

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Bert’s Brilliantly clear light golden color with a frothy white head that persists. Earthy, bready, light citrus and sulfur make up the aroma. Nice bready pilsner flavor with just a touch of earthy spicy hops to counter. Seems a bit sweet and could use a touch more hops for the style, but I’m really enjoying this beer!
Tried from Bottle on 25 Sep 2015 at 18:21

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle consumed at a party, 7/18/15
I thought this was a pretty solid one. Nice summer thirst quencher. Good cleannees. Not the cleanest pils ever, but it's nice enough. Would certainly drink again, especially on a hot summer day. Would probably be better out of a can.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Jul 2015 at 16:34

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
12oz bottle. Guess this is the replacement for Noble Pils, but it has some of those newish German hops as well. Not that bad, but something about the boring dry Sam Adams yeast and the thinnish malt qualities just don’t work. Almost a lemon pine-sol thing going on. A lot better than some smaller breweries Pils, but a little factory neutered down.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2015 at 21:55

4.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
OK for style. Some German hops. Some crispness. Easy drinking. Some rustiness. Golden pour. Bottle at a party.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2015 at 16:30

2/10
Tried on 20 Jun 2015 at 21:39

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle, 4/22/15. Clear vibrant golden, thin creamy white head, fair retention. Aroma of grassy, citrus hops, toasted grain. The taste is doughy malt, grassy, piney hops. Thin bodied, strong lingering bitterness, strong carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2015 at 22:32

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Lemon, barley malt and hay aroma. Golden yellow with large head. Lightly sweet lemon, barley malt, and mildly bitter herbal hay flavor. Nice body. Very pleasant - nice.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2015 at 19:34

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Pours a crystal clear straw from a bottle, thin white head quickly dissipates with little lacing. Light aroma, maybe some sweat in the background. Light sweetness, some bitter floral hops, tastes like what an American beer trying to be more European would taste like. Okay beer.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2015 at 22:10