Hop Grail
First Cast Pilsner (Cans)
- Pilsner
- 4.9% ABV
- Label approved Aug 5
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Southern Tier Brewing Co.'s Pilsner. Label approved 5 August 2026; not spotted yet.
Lighter than 61% of the 638 Pilsner labels we've read.
From the label“THE Classic CATCH EVERY GREAT STORY STARTS WITH A FIRST CAST: CALM, CRISP, AND FULL OF PROMISE. BREWED AS A CLEAN, REFRESHING PILSNER, THIS EASY-DRINKING BEER REELS YOU IN WITH BALANCED MALT CHARACTER, A SMOOTH FINISH, AND THE KIND OF DRINKABILITY THAT KEEPS THE GOOD TIMES ON THE LINE.”
How to serve it
- Serve at
- 40–45°F (4–7°C)
- Glass
- Pilsner glass: tall and tapered, so the bubbles and color show
- Goes with
- Pizza, Fried chicken, Sushi
About 145–165 calories and 13–18 g carbs
About 95 of those calories come from the alcohol.
General guidance for Pilsner. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools
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About this beer
This is the 29th of 48 labels we have from Southern Tier Brewing Co. It is one of 92 pilsner labels approved in August 2026. It was submitted and approved the same day.
A pen-and-ink scene of a great blue heron wading in a marsh landscape occupies the left panel, rendered in ochre and dark green against a pale cream ground. The heron stands among cattails and reeds with a distant shoreline and tree line in soft detail behind it. The beer name appears in heavy slab-serif capitals across the lower third, with
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A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.
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Style: LagerBrewery: Southern Tier Brewing Co.