By Greg B. In general, I’m not a big fan of pilsners.  But with one of my good friend’s getting married soon, I decided to make for her wedding a pilsner.  Now, this isn’t an easy task, and generally requires a chilling vessel of sorts, but fortunately for me, the front of my house is cold as hell in the winter, and right by the front windows, a draft constantly blows through the house, so that on a 20F day outside, the window area will be around 40F, despite the rest of the house somewhere in the mid 60’s.  And while I brewed this beer a solid month ago, I’m just getting around to my pilsner reviews now!  So here’s an American pils (though, Czech style), in a can, from one of my favorite Western Breweries. 

Oskar Blues Brewery makes some pretty good brews, notably their Ten-fidy Imperial stout and this scotch ale.  But this time, I went for the lighter of their beers.  All their beers come served in a can, making them a real nice high end 6-pack you can pick up and carry with you multiple places with ease (fishing, camping, etc).  I poured this into a tall pilsner glass, from which you could easily see some heady carbonation and a frothy 2 fingers of white foam which receded at a medium pace and left a bit of nice lacing on the glass.  The beer is a beautiful dark straw color (it looks a bit darker in the picture due to my amazingly ‘warm’ incandescent lights in my house) and brings with it a nice aroma of grassy hops with some bready malts. The beer itself is pretty balanced.  Not too sweet like the American pilsners, not too over carbonated/sharp hop flavor that the Euro pils have.  It’s a pretty dry beer, though the malt body evident in every sip.  This is a pretty nice beer, perhaps better suited for summer time, but a nice, easily quaffable beer!  2.9/5, 5.3%abv