Junction Craft Pilsner

Junction Craft Pilsner is a pale lager born of Toronto’s Junction Craft Brewery. It’s a 4.6% brew sold in unremarkable 473mL cans. The beer is not-quite-clear straw yellow with a short-lived white head and a decent amount of carbonation.

 

JCB’s JCP has a sweet, grainy nose with an agreeable noble hop subtext. The flavour follows the same trail, but the ratios are inverted. The beer kicks off with a sweet cereal note, and it culminates in a rowdy bitter finish. The only issue for me is the sweetness is a bit too prominent.

Dry and crisp, JCP is a low-alcohol offering with a remarkably full-flavour. I’d have liked it to be a bit more effervescent, and there is a sweet streak running through it that doesn’t totally work. On the whole, I thought this was a pretty solid German-style pilsner, and I’d be glad to have another any time.

Rating: 8.0 out of 10.