Beer Story: Ping River Pilsner

Ping River Pilsner | 5% ABV

Key Tasting Notes: Nut, Honey, Whole Grain

Ping River Pilsner was released in 2018. The concept of this beer is straightforward, an easy-drinking beer. To us, it is fun to create beers that are unique and somewhat stand out from the mainstream beers like a lager or a pilsner. Nonetheless, we could not disagree that the simple crisp, and clean pale lager is the world’s most popular kind of beer. Although it looks like a basic brew, bringing the best out of it is actually one of the most challenging missions for us and many brewers worldwide.

Ping River Pilsner is a Czech-style pilsner. We stick with tradition and as a result, only high-quality malted barley and the “Noble hops” are selected as the ingredients for the brewing. This pilsner is smooth on the palate with a medium body. It has a honeyish sweetness that does not linger for too long and balances out mild bitterness really well. A “noble” thirst quencher it is.

It was awarded a silver medal at World Beer Awards 2019.

Its smoothness and beautiful touch of nostalgia make us think of the good old days when we used to chill out with our families and friends on the bank of Ping River.

The image on the label depicts a scorpion-tailed boat cruising along Ping River. Even though we rarely see this kind of boat nowadays, there used to be so many of them sailing back and forth across Ping River back in the past. The scorpion-tailed boat is native to the northern region of Thailand. They were used to transport goods and sometimes people on long journeys. In the background, we can see “Khua Lek” or the Iron Bridge, one of today’s most famous landmarks of Chiang Mai City. However, let it be noted that the current iron bridge is built according to the design and using the steel parts of the original one situated nearby (Nawarat Bridge, which was rebuilt a long time ago to suit the present-day lifestyle). Why so? Probably because we want to remember the past as it helps make us who we are.