The Beer Critic

Brewery Website: www.oskarblues.com

Type of Beer: Czech Pilsener

Alcohol Content: 5.3%

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Appearance: Pours a hazy, bright yellow-gold with brilliant, white one-finger head that settles to a white film leaving behind beautiful lacing. VERY attractive pils!

Smell: Nice, clean smell. Some lemon citrus with soft yeasts and biscuit malts.

Initial Taste: Tastes like how a pilsner beer should taste. Sweet taste up front with a soft hop bite. Light malt and light hop make this a very easy to drink beer. The finish is very clean and ever so slightly bitter…begging you to drink more.

Thoughts: Another home run by those can-happy beer wizards at Oskar Blues Grill and Brewery. It’s one thing to make such delicious craft beer but to put it in a can as well? Crazyness. With Mama’s Little Yalla Pils these guys have created a pilsner (or spelled pilsener) beer in the tradition of the original pilsner from Pilsen, Czech Republic. Unlike mass market “pilsners” diluted with corn & rice, Mama’s Little Pils is made with 100% pale malt, German specialty malts, and Bavarian hops. Pilsners have always been my favorite style of beer. Pilsners are usually lightly flavored, refreshing, crisp and very easy to drink making them the perfect session beer. Oskar Blue’s pilsner delivers on these points with perfection. If you are a fan of this style of beer you are doing yourself a huge disservice by not running out and getting yourself a can of this golden deliciousness. Don’t fear the can!

Type of Beer: American Pale Ale

Alcohol Content: 6.50%

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Appearance: Pours a nice two finger white head with ok lacing. Color is a light gold with a cloudy complexion.

Smell: Citrus hops with notes of pine and a bread-like malt sweetness. Very appealing.

Initial Taste: Tastes like an IPA (India Pale Ale). Strong flowery hops up front with not much of that citrus like we noticed to strong in the aroma. The flavorful hops are somewhat balanced with a sweetbready malts. While you can taste the sweetness of the malts this is by far a very hoppy beer.

Thoughts: Another amazing beer from a can! The guys over at Oskar Blues have done a great job of changing the way people think of canned beer. This one is no exception. It’s a flavorful beer that is packed full of complex hop flavors. This is definitely not for the hop-shy beer crowd   but as far as Pale Ales go…this one is a winner. I highly recommend this beer to all you IPA and Pale Ale lovers out there. Don’t Fear The Can!