Hi!  I'm Mark here on behalf of Expert Village.  In this segment, I am going to give you an overview of the classic American Pilsner style.  Where there are a whole bunch of Pilsner's available.  We are going to focus on something that is close to American's now days which is the classic American Pilsner which is in a way rare.  However, it is also a very very good beer.  For a classic American Pilsner, we are going to go for a nice yellow and possibly deep deep color with a very nice white head.  For the aroma, it is going to be sort of grainy and there is going to be possible amounts of corn and maybe even a little rice in there.  There is going to be some type of aroma that comes through some of the American hops though they actually go with the classic noble hops.  For the flavor, we are going to go with a lot of malt and this is going to come from the Pilsner malt.  There is also going to be some adjuncts used in this style of beer which can either be corn or rice.  Today we are going to be going with rice.  Overall, it is just going to be kind of a nice crisp maltiness and with a fair amount of hot bitterness to kind of balance that out.  The mouth on this is going to be a nice medium body.  It is going to feel rich and it is going to have a fair amount of carbonation.  Overall, this is basically an American version of a German or Czech Pilsner to basically compete with their styles.
