I learned a lot from this beer. The bright orange fluid and the orange blossom green hoppy scent. This wasn't what a pilsner was supposed to be but now it is what I realize it is what I expected Dogfish Head's Golden Shower to be rather than the expensive malty perhaps malt-liquor-esque, perhaps tripel-like thing that beer turned out to be.

In the mouth, there is green herbal roughness from the hop rather than an intensification of the steel that I usually associate with Hallertau. Spruce woodsy reminding of the scrubby sea coastal Maritime Canadian forest I grew up with. And there is a bushel of fruit from the malt - apple with maybe apricot. At the outset, there is a quality I find very difficult to describe other than there is something of the oyster shell and something of the stoniness of Chablis or Riesling. An evergreen finish that goes on.

Great BAer respect and a lesson that a mega-regional bursting at the seams can make a very fine thing indeed.