Bend Badlands Bohemian Pilsner

Brewed by Bend Brewing Company
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Bend, Oregon USA

Bready grainy thin body with a grassy hop profile featuring a light peppery spice bite. Thin and perfectly quaffable when walking off the 100F+ street.

On tap at the Bend pub. Pours transparent gold with small white head. Aroma is grass and nothing particularly identifiable. Pretty plain, weak, and bland to me. Better than macro pilsner, but not my style.

Labeled as pilsner. Golden colored. Aroma is grass, hay, light bread. Light bodied yet a moderate amount of flavor, very drinkable. Overall it still lacked character.

On Tap at Brepub pours out a clear amber topped with a white head. A nice little hop and malt on this. Better than a normal pils but still not that great.

Gorgeous sparkling gold, lasting white head. Nose seems a bit off. Light malt with a decent Saaz finish

Tap @ Brewpub: Gold color, no head and light lacing. Nose of grassy crisp hops, light pale malt. The flavor is hoppy, bitter, but still thin. The finish is thin and dry, meh. Needs some more malty notes to give a toasty character to balance the hops. Usually the hops just aren’t enough, it’s nice to see some people still miss the other side of the equation as well.

On Tab at the BrewPub. Light pale malts and alight but fairly bitter flavor. Light, thin abd a long bitter trailer.

(Draft: Bend Brewing Company in Bend, OR) This is a decent pilsner, grainy, mildly sweet, balanced by a moderately bitter and crisp hoppiness. Not a whole lot going on in the nose in the way of hops, but a delicate sweetness does have some presence. Light bodied, somewhat crisp and dry in the finish. Medium golden color, perfectly clear like it should be, but with no carbonation bubbles rising through the beer, it looks still. The white head fades to a broken film, but leaves plenty of patchy lacing on the glass. Pretty average for the style, it’s not outstanding, but surely competent and enjoyable. It just lacks the smoky maltiness I really look for with this style.