Avery Joe's Premium American Pilsner:
Hello all and welcome back, you were most certainly missed.  Tonight let’s see what we can do, shall we?  Damn. The puns still aren’t working are they?  Oh well, I’ll see what I can come up with next time.  Eh? Eh? No, great, off to the wrong foot already.  Well let’s go ahead and do this and talk about Avery Brewing and their Joe’s Premium American Pilsner.  I think I’ve made it no real secret on this website that pilsners really don’t excite me; they are dull, no real taste profile, and uninteresting in their color.  So what does Avery have to offer in the pilsner category?  Well the beer pours a very pale blonde with an chalk white foamy head that sticks around to a subtle layer on top of the beer and leaves some good lacing with a nose of raw malts and grains.  The beer’s initial taste is very malty though an undertone of hops is noticeable (and sticks around throughout the beers consumption), a mid tongue of dry malts with noticeable fizz and a back end that is like most major pale ales with a predominate hop taste.  The aftertaste is very dry and reminds me of the feeling that you get after eating a Saltine cracker by itself and the dryness that follows it.  Not bad but again it’s a pilsner and there are way too many good beers out there and even Avery offers better blondes like their White Rascal whose flavor profile blows this out of the water.  If Avery didn’t have so many other really good beers, I would be worried but luckily I’m not going to lose sleep over this lackluster entry.