Calvors Premium Pilsner Lager

Premium Pilsner Lager

 

Calvors in Ipswich, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Lager - Pilsener Regular
Score
5.48
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 21
LodeStar Festival Ale is a 3.8% golden refreshing ale. Therefore the perfect partner to a summer festival!

It is made from four malts to give full body and with four additions of English hops it has a lovely aroma and gentle hop bitterness.
 

Sign up to add a tick or review

Join Us


     Show


3.5
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 16

This rating system really conspires against a beer like this, but it is a success nonetheless. The taste is lead by bready malt, with grain and light caramel sweetness following soon there after. Elements are well balanced and round out nicely as the taste grows in your mouth. Better than the numbers show!

Tried on 23 Sep 2025 at 19:59


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml can. Clear gold, small white head, average retention. Aroma is sweet and quite grainy, slight hint of grass. Taste is also grainy and sweet, lightly herbal with a long dry bitter finish that creeps up on you. Not really clean and crisp like a a great Pilsner but I like the down to earth nature of this brew. Its more balanced than their Session and Diversion IPAs.

Tried from Can on 31 Dec 2024 at 02:25


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can from Beers of Europe. Pours crystal clear golden with a thick white head. Aromas of light grain, light corn, light lemon. Taste is more of the same. Thin finish.

Tried from Can on 30 Mar 2022 at 17:11


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can from Beers of Europe. Appearance - golden with initially a nice fluffy head. Then it falls away quickly. Nose - mainly malt. Looking for grass or spice notes from the hops but not there. Taste - more malt, clutching to a little bit of bitterness at the very end (almost an afternote). Palate - light bodied, just needs more bitterness on the finish. Overall - lacks zing, which let's face it, is what a Pils is supposed to do best.

Tried from Can on 29 May 2020 at 16:47


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Can: Poured a golden with fluffy white head. Aroma is grainy. Taste is grainy light metallic.

Tried from Can on 14 Apr 2020 at 19:27


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at White Horse, Needham Market. Vague grassy aroma. Copper gold. A few strands of bubbly white head. Very light bitter with some equally light caramel sweetness. Bitterness more evident into the finish and a malty aftertaste. Light bodied. Thin. Average-fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish. Drinkable.

Tried on 12 Apr 2019 at 21:01


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Clear golden color with a fine white head. Moderate intensity in the aroma. Medium body and an average carbonation level. Ok balance between sweetness and bitterness. Grainy, malty and herbal flavor. Decent pilsner.
[The Greater Anglia train session 17 – Norwich to Ipswich]

Brewery #1615

Tried on 19 Mar 2017 at 14:38


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

500ml bottle from East of England Co-Op Foodstore, shared on the train from Norwich to Ipswich and Chelmsford. Firm white head over a clear golden body. Modest grainy nose. Taste of grainy malts and vague grassy hops. Semi-dry malty ending. Soft in the mouth. Accepted (18.02.2017).

Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2017 at 07:38


4.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle @ Norwich to Ipswich train tasting. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of malt grain, hay. Flavor is light sour, malt, grain, little hay. Thin body, lively carbonation. 180217

Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2017 at 03:40


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ Norwich to Ipswich train tasting. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish. 180217

Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2017 at 09:37