Pure Michigan Winter Pils
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Imperial Pils Winter|
Score
6.72
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Imperial Pilsner Made With Michigan Ingredients
Winter is coming, but that can’t stop (won’t stop) the bounty of Pure Michigan up here on the 45th Parallel. Made with all Michigan ingredients from Empire Malting Co, Great Lakes Malting Company, Valley View Farms, MI Local Hops, and Hop Alliance, our Imperial Pilsner is ready for brilliant snow days and the long, dark nights of Michigan winter. So bundle up and grab a six pack—it’s 5 o’clock somewhere, but don’t forget your headlamp cuz it’s probably dark out.
Winter is coming, but that can’t stop (won’t stop) the bounty of Pure Michigan up here on the 45th Parallel. Made with all Michigan ingredients from Empire Malting Co, Great Lakes Malting Company, Valley View Farms, MI Local Hops, and Hop Alliance, our Imperial Pilsner is ready for brilliant snow days and the long, dark nights of Michigan winter. So bundle up and grab a six pack—it’s 5 o’clock somewhere, but don’t forget your headlamp cuz it’s probably dark out.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pour is a hazy IPA lookalike with a large white head. Aroma is a creamy malt with some herbal hops. Flavor is more creamy and thick chalky malt with some minty herbal hops. A nice thick and heavy beer. I don't know why this had to be 7.3%. If I could get this a 5% or under, now you got something going on.
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2025
at 20:19
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz can from beer club. Solid - high octane Pilsner. Crisp, fairly good beer
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2025
at 03:32
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours clear gold with a two finger white head. It has a grainy, kind of bready malt aroma. The flavor has the grainy, bready malt at the forefront with some mild, balancing hops. It’s medium bodied, a fuller beer than a typical pils. I can’t help but think of corn, but fortunately it’s not the strong, overly sweet corn flavor of a malt liquor. It’s alright.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2024
at 06:45
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Can. Pours a clear pale yellow with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has light grass and sweet grains with some straw and hay underlying. Flavor has a good amount of sweet grain and hay with a bit of straw and wet grass underlying.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jan 2024
at 00:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 03 Nov 2023
at 23:10