Samuel Adams Noble Pils

[cblake33]

Just wondering if anyone has tried this yet? Bringing it in to my bar tomorrow in bottles.

http://www.samueladams.com/Promotions/Beerloverschoice2009/home.html

 

[cyberbackpacker]

I tried it here in early Fall at a tasting/voting... they had this and an IPA. The IPA was solid, but it would have just blended in with the plethora of other "good" but indistinguishable IPA's IMO.

I voted for the Pils... crisp, clean, meets classic Pilsner bittering, but very balanced at the same time. It was a very satisfying beer.

There are not many commercial Pilsner's on the market nationwide, and it will be a welcome to have this, as it was very solid and exemplary of a good Pilsner.

Those are my thoughts, a few months removed, and from two 4 oz samples!

 

[vcm1613]

I have picked up 2 sixers of this in the last week. I simply love this beer. The hop aroma that springs from the bottle when you open it and the crispness of it in the glass are just fantastic. Very floral citrusy hop notes, not bitter and give such a great aftertaste. If your an IPA style hop-head you can still appreciate this beer. Although to be fair this is no were near as bitter or spicy as IPAs can be. Very drinkable! Love it!

-J

Anyone have any info/ideas on possibly cloning this?

 

[fezzman]

I saw this last night at the grocery store and thought about picking it up. I went in with the mindset of getting an IPA. All they had was Harpoon IPA so I picked it up. Yeah, soo should have gotten the SA instead. They must not sell much of the Harpoon because the stuff was old, yo. I should probably take it back.

I'll pick up a sixxer of the SA next time through.

 

[chelero]

anyone seen this?

New series of barrel-aged beers to be released soon

The Boston Beer Co. is rolling out a new series of beers, the Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection, that will be available in a limited number of markets but also at its Boston brewery — the first time the brewery has sold beer at its door.

The Barrel Room Collection includes New World Tripel (10% abv), American Kriek (Balaton cherries, 7%) and Stony Brook Red (9%), all aged in Eastern European oak barrels, originally used to age brandy in Italy and imparting subtle sweet, toasty notes.

“For years, we’ve been playing with barrels at the brewery, aging small batches of beer in our Barrel Room. Before now, these beers have only been available at beer festivals or to a few lucky visitors to our Boston Brewery,” founder Jim Koch said for a press release.

The beers will be available in Denver, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire for a suggested retail price of $9.99 per 750ml bottle.
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[GilaMinumBeer]

Haven't seen the Noble Pils. Matter of fact, it's been a while since I had seem the Hall Imp Pils too.

 

[riored4v]

anyone seen this?

New series of barrel-aged beers to be released soon

The Boston Beer Co. is rolling out a new series of beers, the Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection, that will be available in a limited number of markets but also at its Boston brewery — the first time the brewery has sold beer at its door.

The Barrel Room Collection includes New World Tripel (10% abv), American Kriek (Balaton cherries, 7%) and Stony Brook Red (9%), all aged in Eastern European oak barrels, originally used to age brandy in Italy and imparting subtle sweet, toasty notes.

“For years, we’ve been playing with barrels at the brewery, aging small batches of beer in our Barrel Room. Before now, these beers have only been available at beer festivals or to a few lucky visitors to our Boston Brewery,” founder Jim Koch said for a press release.

The beers will be available in Denver, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire for a suggested retail price of $9.99 per 750ml bottle.
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Have the American Kriek still in the fridge, but I drank the Stony Brook Red already. Really good IMO for the price. I'd definitely pick up another one.

 

[Budzu]

I want to have Noble Pils babies. I love it so much.. I'm a man btw and I'll just deal with it.

Here's my thread on it if anyone wants to help me try to clone it.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/sa-noble-pils-154427/

 

[Homercidal]

Went to a Beer festival in GR on Sat and got to try the Nobel Pils. I thought it was pretty good. My sense of taste may have been skewed a bit by all of the other beer I was drinking, but I thought it was maybe the best PILS I've ever had. Nicely balanced and not too heavy. Lots of hop character.

I will be looking to get a 6-pack when I can find it locally.

 

[HOOTER]

Just bought a sixer of this tonight. I'd crack one open now if I didn't have to take my boy to basketball practice. Guess I'll just have to wait a few hours. I've been in a real pils mood lately so the timing is perfect.

Edit: Just finished my first one and I'm not overly impressed. It's a pils, no doubt, but not anything I haven't had before. It's crisp and refreshing with floral, herbal hop notes balanced with a bready malt character if I had to describe it, but nothing that blows me away. This probably would have been my favorite beer 10 years ago but I guess I've become very picky in my old age.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I'm not much for hoppy beers, so it wasn't my favorite SA. That said, I could see how people would really like it.

 

[jkarp]

Was waiting at Chili's last night to pick up a take-out and the barkeep said they'd just tapped Noble Pils and he hadn't tried it yet. I was pretty impressed and I'm not generally a Sam Adams fan.

A truly good homebrew Pils is my unicorn. I try every Spring, and while they're steadily getting better, they are nowhere close to this. Does motivate me to start working up a recipe for this year's attempt though. All 5 noble hops are used. Hmm....

 

[fezzman]

I finally tried this last night. I was expecting a fair amount of hop flavor but WOW...it was like a million hop gnomes punching my taste buds. I totally enjoyed this brew. I passed it over the first few times because I underestimated how tasty a pils can really be.

Does anyone suppose this was dry hopped with all 5 nobles?

 

[MrInternet]

I am generally a fan of Sam Adams, but even I was blown away by this... such a sublime, subtle, yet bitter and hoppy taste all at once. Beats the heck out of Steigl Pils for me, and that was my personal gold standard before...

 

[Sedge]

Picked up a sixer from the grocery store. Brilliant gold color, nice Sam Adams head. Aroma was really floral, with a hint of rubber tire (weird I thought). Spicy noble hops. Taste was straight pilsner malt. I like it.

 

[steinsato]

After reading this thread and I went out and bought a 12er last night. At first I thought it tasted a bit too grassy but after the first beer I guess I got used to it and started enjoying them. It is a pretty good beer.

 

[morebeer]

I just tried this myself and thought it was very good. Definatelly had a nice spicy hop note to it, but rather than another pale ale it is a very clear true pilsner. Very refreshing, wish this wasn't only a seasonal becuase this would be a great summer beer to drink all day.

 

[Mickaleen]

Very drinkable, subtle citrusy hop flavor. I like it.

 

[loganb]

just got a sixer of this tonight and i have to say it is one of my favorite SA beers and i pretty much like all of SA that i have had but this one is pretty damn awsome.

 

[buffalobrewer]

the bowling alley my work league plays at has it on tap. Good stuff!

 

[MrInternet]

On my second sixer of this, and I've gotta say... after a decade of being a SA fan, this may be their most style-perfect offering to date.... fantastic.

 

[MMTG]

Had a few pints of it over the weekend...preety good on tap! Its No Prima Pils though IMO

 

[kornbread]

I saw it at Wally-World yesterday. I almost picked it up, but the $8.99 price tag kind of changed my mind. I'm thinking now that I should have given it a try.

 

[jkarp]

$8.99 high or low? 50% of the beers I buy cost at least that much per bottle.

 

[Mayday99]

Yeah, this stuff is good. I tasted some good pilsners when on vacation in Germany, but it is just not a style that travels well.

Prima Pils is great but it to me definitely has an American spin on it.

This beer seems to me, as best as I can remember, what a fresh pilsner would taste like if you bought it in Germany.

I wonder if this beer is too hoppy to have a mass market appeal? I think it would be worth keeping in the year round line up just for the fact that it is hard to get a fresh pilsner that is true to style in most markets.

I rarely buy beer anymore (prefer to drink my own) but I would buy this regularly.

 

[kornbread]

$8.99 high or low? 50% of the beers I buy cost at least that much per bottle.

Well, I have paid quite a bit more for beer too, but my thinking at the time was: "why am I standing here thinking about buying an $8.99 six pack when I've already got a fridge full at home?"

So I guilt tripped myself out of buying it, but I'm thinking now, after reading these reviews, that I probably should have tried it.

 

[MrInternet]

So I guilt tripped myself out of buying it, but I'm thinking now, after reading these reviews, that I probably should have tried it.

Don't beat yourself up, just get a 12'er next time to make up for it...

Seriously, in the "world of pilsners", there are better ones, but as far as the BBC goes, this is, IMO, the first time they've really tried to emulate a style for what it's supposed to be, not what they think they can get away with and still give it mass appeal. Their flagship Boston Lager isn't *really* a Vienna Lager... their Cherry Wheat isn't *really* a wheat... their Cranberry "Lambic" isn't *really* a Lambic... but this is DEFINITELY a Pils. A really, really good one.

 

[Homercidal]

I got a 6er at the store and I must say that the on-tap version was better. It's still pretty good, and I'd order it over many beers, but there are many more that I'd rather have. I think I've just grown accustomed to ales.

 

[mcstout]

I really liked it, but I am a huge hop fan.
@Kornbread - its worth a try.

 

[Budzu]

Alot of you guys noting how close to style this is... but I wouldn't have said so.. are pilsners in germany really that hoppy? I've never had one nearly so. Yeah I've been to Germany, Austria, Switz, lots of Eastern Europe including living 8 months in Brno, Czech Republic. Nothing had so much hop flavor as this.
Now I ain't knockin it one bit! Its the American way, take something and make it better! But I don't know about "to style". JMO! That said I am picking up 2 or 3 CASES of this stuff... and I brew 10 gallons every week!