Dogwood Pilsner
Review Date 8/13/2003
Try?
Re-buy?
What if I told
you that you could sit back and sip a delicious, refreshing pilsner style
beer, just bursting with malt and hop flavor and at the same time help to
preserve our environment? Sounds good, doesn’t it? Now imagine you could do
all that for about $5.49 a six-pack. Truth to tell, you can, every time you
purchase Dogwood Pilsner, a delightfully assertive example of the
style.
Firmly committed environmentalists, the crew at Dogwood donate 10% of the profits from the sale of Dogwood Pilsner to the Environmental Fund for Georgia. The fund is actually a consortium of about 25 distinct organizations, all working to keep Georgia’s air, rivers, parks, forests, and lakes clean.
Drinking Dogwood Pilsner is certainly one of the tastiest ways you can do your part for the planet. Lagered for a full two months, Dogwood Pilsner is brewed from only the finest pale malts including imported German pilsner malt. It is bittered with Magnum hops, with Czech Saaz used for late boil addition. After fermenting with an authentic Bohemian yeast strain, the beer is dry hopped with more Saaz.
Anyone who thinks that Miller Lite is a genuine pilsner style beer needs to try a Dogwood Pilsner. While it could be said that most American megabrewed lagers are broadly in the pilsner style, they lack the crisp malt and flowery hop flavors that a real pilsner should possess. Dogwood calls its pilsner a Bohemian styled version, but I think the aggressive hop bitterness has it leaning a bit more to the German pilsner style.
Dogwood Pilsner pours to a deep golden color with a thick creamy head formation and a slightly phenolic hop nose. The palate here is firm and crisp, full-bodied but not overpowering, and packed with fresh biscuity pilsner malt flavor. The finish is lightly flowery, a tad phenolic, and increasingly bitter; indeed, the hop bitterness is long and dry and lingers nicely on the tongue.
Hopheads will love the way the hops are so pronounced here; at the same time, it never completely overshadows the wonderful fresh malt flavors. Dogwood Pilsner is just another of the wonderful beers coming from what I (and many others) consider the Southeast’s finest microbrewery. Like their other wonderful beers (Stout, Pale Ale, IPA, Bock, Octoberfest, Summer Beer, Winter Brew), Dogwood Pilsner is a world class beer at a bargain basement price.
For now only sold in Georgia, residents and visitors of the state should not pass on this exceptional locally brewed beers. But be forewarned. You may like the beer so much, you’ll decide to move here for a steady supply.
Firmly committed environmentalists, the crew at Dogwood donate 10% of the profits from the sale of Dogwood Pilsner to the Environmental Fund for Georgia. The fund is actually a consortium of about 25 distinct organizations, all working to keep Georgia’s air, rivers, parks, forests, and lakes clean.
Drinking Dogwood Pilsner is certainly one of the tastiest ways you can do your part for the planet. Lagered for a full two months, Dogwood Pilsner is brewed from only the finest pale malts including imported German pilsner malt. It is bittered with Magnum hops, with Czech Saaz used for late boil addition. After fermenting with an authentic Bohemian yeast strain, the beer is dry hopped with more Saaz.
Anyone who thinks that Miller Lite is a genuine pilsner style beer needs to try a Dogwood Pilsner. While it could be said that most American megabrewed lagers are broadly in the pilsner style, they lack the crisp malt and flowery hop flavors that a real pilsner should possess. Dogwood calls its pilsner a Bohemian styled version, but I think the aggressive hop bitterness has it leaning a bit more to the German pilsner style.
Dogwood Pilsner pours to a deep golden color with a thick creamy head formation and a slightly phenolic hop nose. The palate here is firm and crisp, full-bodied but not overpowering, and packed with fresh biscuity pilsner malt flavor. The finish is lightly flowery, a tad phenolic, and increasingly bitter; indeed, the hop bitterness is long and dry and lingers nicely on the tongue.
Hopheads will love the way the hops are so pronounced here; at the same time, it never completely overshadows the wonderful fresh malt flavors. Dogwood Pilsner is just another of the wonderful beers coming from what I (and many others) consider the Southeast’s finest microbrewery. Like their other wonderful beers (Stout, Pale Ale, IPA, Bock, Octoberfest, Summer Beer, Winter Brew), Dogwood Pilsner is a world class beer at a bargain basement price.
For now only sold in Georgia, residents and visitors of the state should not pass on this exceptional locally brewed beers. But be forewarned. You may like the beer so much, you’ll decide to move here for a steady supply.
And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.
*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.
(B)=Bottled
(D)=Draft
