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United States · German Pilsner · 4.8% ABV
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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Lanikai Brewing Pillage if you want restraint and clean minerality,
Tipopils if you want backbone and grip.
Both nail the German pilsner playbook at nearly identical IBUs, but the 0.4% ABV difference shows up as texture, not just numbers. Pillage drinks like a pilsner should—crisp exit, minimal aftertaste. Tipopils sits on your palate a bit longer, which some call character and others call weight.
At a glance
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Structurally near-identical
Structurally these two are the same beer. The difference is in the aromatics. Sweetness and bitterness match within Δ 1. Tipopils runs a touch livelier in texture (Δ 4). Tipopils brings a distinct floral note that Lanikai Brewing Pillage doesn't.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 2
Sweetness
Δ 1
Situations
In words
Lanikai Brewing Pillage
Pillage is what happens when a brewery respects the style without overthinking it. Crisp, clean grain that tastes like actual pilsner malt—no weird adjuncts or hybrid yeast tricks. The bitterness is there (38 IBU) but it's restrained, herbaceous, almost polite. Finishes bone-dry with a mineral tingle that makes you want another sip immediately.
Tipopils
Tipopils has more presence. The extra half-percent ABV isn't huge, but you feel it as a slightly rounder mouthfeel and a touch more malt sweetness underneath the noble hops. The bitterness matches Pillage on paper (38 IBU) but lands differently—sharper, more assertive. It's the pilsner that actually wants you to *notice* it.
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Texture
Δ 4
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Shared character
Only Tipopils