Spezial Pils
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Rotating|
Score
6.64
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Inspired by classic European lagers, our entire Brewing Team got together to create this truly collaborative beer that captures the essence of European tradition. The result, Spezial Pils, is our take on a German-style pilsner with a pleasant balance between light, grainy malt and spicy, floral hops. We lager it at freezing temperatures for an extended period to round out its delicate flavors and improve drinkability. The finish is crisp and clean with a pleasant dryness and subtle bitterness. Prost!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pale yellow golden pour from can. Spicier with saaz I guess bitterness. Pretty decent.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap at BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Aroma is soft floral notes and grainy malt, light fruity with notes of berries, hops, straw. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and bitter. Body is medium. Between a Pils and a Blonde, nice enough.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught@Sori Taproom, Helsinki. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is grassy,wooden, herbal and some mild earthy notes. Flavour is fruity, earthy, grassy and some slight bready tones.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Dec 2022
at 16:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear dull yellow gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has lots of straw and a bit of sweet grains with touches of hay and lemongrass backing. Flavor has light sweet grains and straw with a bit of earthy hay in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Feb 2022
at 22:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Klare goldene Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Hopfiger, grasiger, leicht malziger Geruch. Geschmacklich hopfig, grasig, leicht malzig. Leicht süß mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, leichter Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2020
at 19:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Straightforward pils, subtle and grassy and easygoin' as hell, with a cracker malt base, mild lemon-apple notes, nuanced floral hops adding a touch of floral bitterness on the back end, and a clean fade. Good, if a tad too light and breezy to leave much of an impression.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2019
at 00:26
8/10
Tried
on 16 Nov 2018
at 04:41
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Appearance: Pale yellow, some haze. Some off-white head. Aroma: Pale malt, light hops. Slight vegetables. Taste: Pale malt, light hops. Light fruits. Slight grains. Dry. Bought: qoqa.ch, 355 ml can, CHF 4.40 Info: 14/9-2018, BB: ??/??-????
Tried
from Can
on 17 Sep 2018
at 14:49
6/10
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Tried
on 13 Sep 2018
at 08:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a slight chill haze yellow with a large white head. Aroma is a nice cracker malt with some woody hops. Flavor is a full bodied cracker and biscuit malt and I'm also getting some cedar wood like in the aroma. No sweetness to be found here this is all dry grainy malt. Pretty good pils.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2018
at 23:07