Italian Pilsner
Ardent Craft Ales in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
6.43
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Italian Pilsner is a light, crisp lager with a pronounced hoppy finish. Dry hopped with Tettnang hops, Italian Pilsner is a Mediterranean cousin of our flagship German-style pils, featuring noble hop characteristics, floral aromatics and minimal bitterness.
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7/10
Clear gold body small foamy white head. Grassy floral aroma. Grassy floral pils flavor. Medium light body moderately high carbonation. 7/3/7/3/14 3.4
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2021
at 20:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
16oz can pours a bright yellow with a ring of white head. Nose has sunflowers, some corn, perfume. Flowers in the mouth, dandelion, corn, perfume. Finishes creamy.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2020
at 19:21
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Crisp and decent. Golden pour with ok head. Pretty nice. Nice easy drinking pilsener. Can thanks to radagast.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Sep 2020
at 16:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Super clear golden coloured body with a very thin, just over a single centiemtre tall pure white head. Aroma of funky malts, a lot of bread, yeast, light skunk and a heavy and perhaps overwhelming astringent metallic note along with a very faint amount of lemons with almost no hops to speak of and absolutely no sugars. Light-bodied; Very strong malty and astringent metallic flavours at first show with a lot of very funky skunk (even with a light porous/green bottle here) and medicinal/dry/herbal flavour and a good deal of both yeast and bread qualities without any sugars nor any hop flavours at all. Aftertaste is very dry, super pungent, a bit herbal and extremely malt heavy/focused with a lot of deep, astringent and flavourful qualities that come out without anything very 'nice' or enjoyable from them at all. Overall, a pretty abtly named beer as this could be just as typical as drinking a green shaded bottle of Moretti, Peroni or really any traditional macro-Italian lager, which isn't really a complement, but with a beer being brewed in Virginia, it perhaps is a good thing. Overall, a nice enough example or name of a reproduction of the real thing, which I'm not necessarily a fan of, but still can appreciate. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 16-June-2020 for US$3,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 30-August-2020.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2020
at 06:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pint can from Meridian Pint. Poured a clear medium-dark yellow color with a medium sized white head. Aroma was super crisp. Sweet, crisp, enjoyable. Light grain, some herbal notes, grassy. Pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2020
at 04:19