Nooner Pilsner
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.58
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A crisp, hoppy take on the original session beer.
Gather your friends, pack the gear, and head out to wherever the day may take you. A midday go-to, Nooner is our take on the classic German-style pilsner—one of the original session beers. Nooner is easy drinking yet packed with the big flavor of spicy and floral whole-cone hops. Its brilliant golden color begs you to take a sip and sink your taste buds into an extremely welcoming beer, full of flavor and balanced by a crisp, dry finish.
Gather your friends, pack the gear, and head out to wherever the day may take you. A midday go-to, Nooner is our take on the classic German-style pilsner—one of the original session beers. Nooner is easy drinking yet packed with the big flavor of spicy and floral whole-cone hops. Its brilliant golden color begs you to take a sip and sink your taste buds into an extremely welcoming beer, full of flavor and balanced by a crisp, dry finish.
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5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle in San Juan. Clear golden color, steady white head, lace. Aroma is citrusy and soapy. Light-bodied. Earthy and grassy hoppyness, Certainly a German flavor with Sierra Nevada yeast twist. SN version of German supermarket pils.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2015
at 16:17
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A local bodega: Pours clear gold with white head. Aroma is that of a clear and crisp German pils. Grass, grain, some dirt, and maybe a hint of lemon. Taste is similarly crisp and clean. Excellent balance. Exactly what one would want from a pils.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2015
at 20:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
12 oz. bottle. After a strong night of good beers I needed a night cap. Sadly this is the only 12 oz bottle I had in my fridge. Aroma is light pils malt, weak citrus and grain.
How is this different from any other Modern American Pilsner?
Well, it isn’t different at all. Backbone is cereal grain, Pils malt. Mild grassy and weak citrus hops in the finish. Mild bitterness. Body is lighter (borderline watery) with a correct level of co2. Yeah, nothing wrong with it but pretty boring overall. After 5 oz this brew, it nearly put me to sleep from lack of excitement.
How is this different from any other Modern American Pilsner?
Well, it isn’t different at all. Backbone is cereal grain, Pils malt. Mild grassy and weak citrus hops in the finish. Mild bitterness. Body is lighter (borderline watery) with a correct level of co2. Yeah, nothing wrong with it but pretty boring overall. After 5 oz this brew, it nearly put me to sleep from lack of excitement.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2015
at 00:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Very German, mild hop nose, balanced with a light graininess. Flavor is spicy, a touch grassy, catty hops, with a nice firm but dry cracker malt. Dry almost minerally finish. Super clean. Mild lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2015
at 15:19
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 3
Clear golden coloured body with a rich, luscious white head, about six centimetres tall. Aroma of pale malt, wheat, corn, rice, grain, light funk and quite a bit of yeast notes. Light-bodied; Sharp metallic flavour up front with some light alcohol, touches of apples/pears/raisins all with a very earthy bitterness from the malt. Aftertaste shows that deep bitterness from within, but nothing funky. Overall, a decent pils with perhaps some more pungent flavours, but still - not a bad beer. I sampled this stubby, SN-special twelve ounce bottle purchased in Aurora, Colorado on 25-February-2015.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2015
at 01:30
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ home, picked up in a mixer sixer at Supermarket Liquor Foco. Pours a clear golden yellow appearance with a lasting off white head. Toasted grain, grass, herbal notes in the nose with a little honey and sweet malt. Medium body. A touch on the sweet side but not bad. Very herbal and crisp. Grassy hops. A little pepper. Pretty chuggable and pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2015
at 19:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle. Filtered pale yellow-tan body. Definitely a Sierra Nevada Pils, lots of thick hops, Sort of full bodied, thick on the palate and heavy for the style, but a quality offering. Aroma, appearance are both spot on for the style, but it drinks like an IPL. Enjoyable, but not really a definitive example of the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2015
at 00:00