Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Imperial Pilsner

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Pilsener
Chico, California USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle. Fresh citrus in the nose, lemon on pale malt with a little dust, nice and fresh and clean. Pours clear, rich golden with a short soapy white head. Taste lightly sweet with light-medium bitterness, good balance with fresh hoppiness and a crisp, energetic lagery body, medium-full with a dose of florality along with mild alcohol seep. Refreshing and balanced.

Pours golden with thin white head that quickly dissipates. Light bready aroma. Decent crisp flavor for a pilsner, considering they’re definitely not my favorite variety. Decent overall, but I’ll take an IPA any day.

Bottle from Cotteridge; clear yellow/amber pour with firm white head, piney hop aroma, taste is first pine hop then backed up by sweet malts really refreshing really good, I love beer camp want to go there in the summer.

Bottle as shown. Pours a hazey yellow with a medium frothy off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is floral hops and wheat grass. Medium mouthfeel with sweet hop and grass with nice crisp finish. Easy to drink a very good pils from Sierra Nevada.

Appearance was clear light gold with rocky whitish 1 finger head spotty at best. Aromas are pils crystal malts, floral noble style hops profile and clean yeast nose. Taste are sweet pils backbone yet subtle. Hops slightly citrus lemon, orange, and hints of dank. Palate was soft smooth CO2 with meduim body, then average length soft American hop kick finish. Good different imperial Pils.

Bottle at Exmouth Arms Finsbury. Clear gold lasting white head. Lager aroma. Thats a pretty solid lager. No puke. Wasy drinking some easy hop sting and hop flower finish. Pretty good. Thats damn good lager. Yep tasty and drinkable. Maybe just a touch too hoppy. Wld prefer the noble hops.

Bottle pour to pint. Part of a Beer Camp 12-pack that I enjoyed in deer camp. Bready and slightly sweet. Nice finish. Holds it own with the others in the assortment pack.

Aroma: something citrusy and a crisp, appetizing hop boquet; Appearance: light golden w/ sediment (unless my glass was unclean; I got the glass as a Christmas present this year and didn’t wash it before I used it...), a slightly off-white head that quickly dissipates after the pour; Taste: malt actually slightly predominates the hops, very well balanced between the two though, some booze, and a bit sweet, all you’d expect in something that calls itself "imperial"; Palate: hops might linger a little longer than desired, my wife mentioned that its a little heavier than she expected for a pilsner; Overall: very enjoyable overall, my wife and I both really like it, and its always nice to find a beer that we can both really enjoy, I’d recommend it to any pilsner fan, way to go SN

Aromas of bread and herbal, earthy hops. Pale gold, white head, decent retention. Tastes dry, with faint hints of honey-like sweetness, bitterness is well balanced with the malts. Light-medium bodied, moderate carbonation, and finishes clean with biscuity and floral flavors. A very nice pilsner, just not very Imperial.

355ml bottle. Pours a clear medium gold, with a smallish white head, which lasts well and leaves reasonable lacing. Floral, resin and spice hops plus some white bread malt notes make up the aroma. Spicy sap and bitter herbal hops notes dominate up front, with some more approachable floral notes soon coming through. White bread and faint caramel make up an incredibly light malt body, with more resin hops coming through in the finish. This is one of the better imperial pilseners I have had. Whilst, like every beer of its style, it lacks any real body to back up its hops kick, it does have some very enjoyable hops flavours, and is certainly an extremely refreshing beer.