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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12 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity and light toasted. Bitter, crisp hoppy and light citrusy. Smooth fruity and crisp bitter into a smooth fruity finish.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a hazy golden with a white head. Lovely fresh aroma hops in the nose. Medium body, dry and crisp malts with a dry finish. Very clean and quaffable. Nothing Imperial though. 060413

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grass, straw and hops. Some flowers too.

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.

Name: BC Imperial Pilsner (43)
Date: September 04, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Appachelian Vinters, Asheville
Appearance: clear gold, frothy white head, bits of drippy lace
Aroma: big floral hop aroma with spicy notes, slightly sweet pale malt, touch of cereal grains
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, cereal, lots of balancing spicyness, floral hops, well placed bitterness leaves a long bitter finish
Overall: not super sweet like most imperial pilsners but rather a fuller and more rounded pilsner

Name: BC Imperial Pilsner (43)
Date: September 20, 2012
Mode: draft
Source: bsp
lots more of the sweet cereal, floral hops coming through strong, more balancing sweetness, fresher and better on draft,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+ /4

12oz bottle–pours gold with a white head. Aroma is floral/lemon, some syrup-light malt. Taste is floral hop, some syrup-light malt/grain.

Tap at OBF. ABV 5.6 IBU 38 Produced especially for the OBF as Beer Camp Imperial Pilsner. Styled as American-Style Pilsner*. Pours gold with a thick white creamy/foamy head. Aroma is bready malt and rather grassy hop. Near med body. Flavor is light biscuit and grass like hop - seems a bit herby. A little unusual. Very noble like. Nicely bitter. Close to style. *Note: Magnum, Crystal and Pacifica hops (from OBF booklet)

Draft. Poured a clear copper color with an average frothy white head that was lasting and produced excellent lacing. Good moderate to heavy complex hop and malt aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth dry slick texture and soft carbonation. Moderate to heavy bittersweet flavor with with a moderate to heavy bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. This is a solid beer and one of the best of style I have had.

Bottle. Slightly hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, hop, grass and a little citrus. Flavour is malt, fruit, hop, grass, little citrus, little sweet, straw and medium bitter.

12oz bottle. Deep yellow, golden pour with a small sized head. Aromas of grass, dough, bread, and some citrus. Tastes of bread, citrus, dough, with some spiciness.