Left Hand Brewing Company- Polestar Pilsner: A Perfect Gateway To Help Convert Your Friends
Monday, December 13, 2010 at 5:51PM | by Jason 
I picked up this brew the other day when I was style shopping. Yep, you heard me right, style shopping. No, I don’t mean I was trying to upgrade my attire or a change in fashion sense but I was out trying to find other styles of brews to widen the variety here on The Greatest Beer Of All Time. Luckily, I walked into a liquor store that allows mixed six packs. The mixed six pack is a beer reviewer’s wet dream. Hell, even if you aren’t a beer reviewer you’d still enjoy the ability to mix it up once in a while. So I grabbed Polestar Pilsner because I thoroughly enjoy Left Hand brews and I can be honest and say that I am not sure that I have had the Polestar Pilsner before. I figured tonight is just as good a night as any, so I poured me a Polestar Pilsner and here’s what happened.
Left Hand Brewing Company classifies this brew as a Pilsner and their website describes Polestar Pilsner as, “Once you have tasted a true pilsner, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have seen the light, and there you will always long to return. Let Polestar guide you out of the wilderness, just as the North Star has guided explorers to their destinations and back home again. Light, crisp and elegant, pilsner is the true test of brewing prowess. Less is more.”
Polestar Pilsner pours a crystal clear straw yellow with a big 2” white champagne like head. The aroma is lemony citrus with smells of bready malts and hints of grassiness.
Once again, Left hand does not disappoint. Polestar Pilsner is a refreshingly good Craft Beer. It is light in body but not in taste, which is what the yellow fizzy breweries can’t seem to understand. This is a prime example of a beer that would be a great gateway beer to bring your clueless macro drinking bros into the light. Polestar Pilsner has a classic pilsner taste with hints of lemon zest and some hoppy bitterness that is mild and delicious. Even though I grabbed this one as a single in a mixed six pack, I will be heading to the store again and picking up a sixer very soon.
ABV: 5.5%
Consumed: Pilsner Glass
Verdict: Buy A Twelve Pack
