Port Brewing Panzer Imperial Pils
Like you, we love hops too. Released each August, Panzer Pils is a stronger, more robust version of a traditional German Style Pilsner brewed with Tettnang and Saaz hops.
3.6
332 reviews
San Marcos, United States
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Poured a rich orange color with a good sized creamy white head and decent lacing. Nose is fruity. Medium body with a smooth and pleasant mouthfeel. The flavor is fruit, floral hops and and there is a light bitter finish. Alcohol is clearly present . Overall everything works together for a tasty and enjoyable brew..
[On tap @ brewery] Lightly clouded orangey amber, modest head formation. Nose is predominant malt and grain, not as much hop as expected. Soft grainy malts, hops come through on the palate adding a nice bitter balance, but still not as forceful as expected. Needed a little more carbonation and slightly colder temperature.
Pouts a golden yellow colour with a little white lacing. Nice aroma of caramel and toffee. Taste of etoh, malt and some hop citrus. A nicely balanced beer and easy to drink I like this one!
22oz bottle in a shaker. Pours golden with a fluffy, off-white head. Aroma strong of caramel malts with spicy, floral hops. The same flavor. Average texture. A very hoppy, full-bodied pilsner, but still a pilsner
Bottle @ Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Originally rated on 28.1.2010. Hoppy, but otherwise quite generic pilsner.
Golden yellow pour with a large white head. Aroma is malty. Taste is malty and sweet with a definite hop presence, and a dry finish. Very good but not as drinkable with the high abv.
Clear golden with a big white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and moderate hoppy - fruit and cats piss. Flavor is quite sweet and very bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 010711
In short: A very sweet/sugary and somewhat boozy pilsner on steroids. Too harsh.
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed fresh (probably fresh) one week after purchase
The look: Cloudy yellow blonde body topped by a large white head with excellent retention
In long: Nose is moderately dry-grass with notes of a fresh baguette and sweet white cake. Taste is loaded with pale malts and what appears to be sugary crystal malts. Flavor of white bread baguette topped with fresh banana slices and with a lot of refined white sugar spread all over it. Also notes of pineapples. Then comes the dry grassy hops with a slight spicy edge. Short and sharp bitterness. Alcohol is apparent. The beer is clean, crisp and sharp but it is overall just too sweet and too harsh for the style. It wants to be exaggeratedly cranked-up german pilsner and it probably is exactly that. But for my thirsty palate I found my little 22oz bomber a bit long to drink. Basically I think that a 9.5% german pilsner makes as much sense as an Individualists Union.
Pours a nice blonde golden color with a thick creamy head. Taste crisp with a hop, floral, and citrus taste.
Bottle (bomber) from the Crcked Kettle. Clear deep golden, almost no head. Honeyish and suspiciously old/cellared aroma with some sugary madeira/raisin notes. Vague herbal and grassy hops. Medium bodied, almost flat. a bit sweet with a nice firm bitterness. Probably a bit too old, would like to try this fresher. The biterness saves the day here.
Orange colour and hazy. Sparkling. White head, mostly lasting. Aroma is hoppy, light spicy and herbal. Complex flavor, sweet, soft, sprakling, mild, sharp bitter, dry. Notes of vanilla? Dry, dry texture.
old hoppy,amber, hazy, white foam, light sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, creamy, bitter, long nice hoppy finish.
Enjoyed on 3/17/11 in a Pilsen glass. Egg yellow color. Foggy almost opaque body. Headed with a very dense, close & lasting foam. Thick layer, yellowish center & lemon yellow circle. Subtle malty but intense hoppy aroma, kind perfumed. Heavy & dry bitterness all over - feel the chains of a Panzer tank rolling on your tongue. The aftertaste keeps the dry bitterness but refreshing flavor. Excellent drinkability no matter alcohol level.
Very high & dense, just-yellow head over golden, well-carbonated beer with an orangeish sheen. Sweetish but with an edge - hoppy, but not at all US-hops. Bit of ureum and toasted grains coming then. Malty, even corn, but with again toasted (especially in the finish) and EU hops; bitterish finish, if the main body is sweet. Grapes retronasal. Well-carbonated, but the finish has some astringency, if mildly so. Infinitely better than the usual malt liquor. Just the effort to make something worthwile from the given, deserves an extra point.
From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center Denver 17/09/2010
Floral hop aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy and citrus flavoured with a hint of dryness in a bitter malt finish.
Hazy, straw colour. Big aroma of hops and some lovely sweet malt too. A very rich malty mouthfeel with again plenty of hop character too. A more robust version of a German Pils? Yes, it definately is.
Slightly cloudy straw brown with overly large head. Aroma more malty than anything. Meduyn body, not too much alcohol. Flavor is mostly hoppy, some malt, a little grassy. Some interesting components maybe doesn’t all quite come together but good nonetheless.
22oz bottle. Pours yellow, solid carbonation, pillowy white head. Light hop aroma. Taste of malt, solid finish. Hides the alcohol well.
Aroma reveals pilsener malt and saaz hops. Pours a golden yellow with a very active carbonation. taste is initially hyper-malty with a strong alcohol flavor typical of Imperial Pilsners. It quickly turns bitter with a bite of hops which I surmise must be caused by the Tettnang Hops since all Saaz hops versions are more mellow in the hop area.
Bottle. Golden, hazy, small and fully diminishing head. Moderate malty and sweetish aroma, fruity, citrus –grapefruit hoppyness, some alcohol. Body is medium, malty and sweetish flavor, grapefruit hoppyness, alcohol. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, quite a lot of alcohol and not so much hoppyness, aroma - flavor not in balance.
I liked this more than I thought I would. Malt and hops -- even likable Saaz -- in good balance without funk, esters, even alcohol, or much else getting in the way. Too huge to have more than small glass and so some residual sugar was not too disturbing.
Golden yellow color with thick white foams that lasts forever. Hefeweizen lemony yeasty and hoppy aroma. Some orange, lemongrass and a strong by subtle hopiness to counter the noticeable kick at the end.
Wow - 22oz, pours gold with a hint of orange. Minimal head, but long lasting. Classic pilsner flavor, but with a stronger hint of hops, honey, and some spiciness that I can’t quite make out. Definitely packs a wallop... great brew.
Bomber pours golden/straw with hazy and a thin white head. Aroma is sweet grains, grass, pepper, hops, slight booze. Taste is similar to aroma very well rounded and empathizing the Tettnag hops and Saaz hop flavors.
Bottle ; Pour is a slightly cloudy gold with a nice frothy white head. Retains well - decent lacing in this shaker. Like you’d expect from a decent Pils. Floral Hop nose with a splash of honey. It tastes like a pils but the mouthfeel is just heavier. No surprise. This brew worked for me - Biscuits, Floral notes, honey, and there is a bitterness present as well as a general sweetness. Nice, really
Poured into a pint glass.
3.5 A: Clear medium yellow color. Two fingers of frothy head with less than average retention and some lacing.
3.0 S: Not much of anything going on in the nose. Somewhat bready malts, but otherwise nothing. I’d expect a pils this strong to put out more.
4.0 T: Taste is much more on par with what I was expecting. Healthy hop bitterness. Some earthy and spicy hop flavor. A little hot, which works helps rather than hinders. Somewhat grainy malts, yet bready as well. Not the greatest, but not bad either.
4.5 M: Heavier medium body. Good creaminess going on. Warms throughout, but especially on finish. Good carbonation.
3.5 D: I can’t imagine having more than a bomber of this. It’s too hot for that. Good, not great.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 11-09-2009 03:14:43
Bottle, shared with Muhunthan@Toronado, San Francisco. Clear orangey gold pour with a smallish white head. Nose was grassy hop aplenty mixed with sweet malt and citrus notes. Much more hop bitterness in the flavour than you’d expect from this style, but that’s a good thing in my book. Started out quite sweet and showed some decent fruity notes tangled up in there. Booze factor not particularly smothered, but I liked the balance on show.
Very drinkable brew on the whole, and I’m seldom too disappointed with an offering from these guys.
65cl, as Panzer Imperial Pilsner, new American brew Anno 2008, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex bitter brew, yet not too heavy, very balanced, hazy, rocky head, very good brew, yet expensive!
Bottle. Clear deep golden with big off-white head. Flavour is malt, aroma and bitter hops with notes of alcohol.
Slight hazy peach pour with a huge white head. The aroma holds bread and caramel notes with nectar fruits and a perfume like grassy hop profile. The flavor is massively hop oriented- the hoppiest pilesner I’ve ever had- tons of orange grapefruit, perfume, grassy, and nectar fruits. The palate is light to medium bodied with fluffy carbonation and a resinous finish.