Foothills Torch Pilsner

Brewed by Foothills Brewing
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA

Poured a clear light yellow color with a medium white head. Malty and grainy aroma with a fair amount of grassy hop. Very long moderately bitter finish with a malty base.

Poured from a growler at kp’s cellar party. Dissipating, but decent white head over a clear gold body. Strong hop aroma. Hoppy, overly bitter for the style with a long bitter finish. The malt never gets a chance here. Good Bohemian Pilsners are favorites of mine and this needs just a bit of tweaking to get it all the way there.

From a growler thanks Larry or KP? Not my favorite style of beer. This one had that familiar skunky wet paper smell but with a hint of malt and a tickle of hops? Was a clean clear ggold with a nice white head. The taste was quite the surprise. It had that familiar pils flavor but it actually had some malt coming through and a bit of hops kicker. A clean smooth easy beer to drink. I will track it down and drink 2 back to back and re-rate. Don’t tell anybody I said this but I kinda liked this nugget.

This is the best local pilsner I’ve had (i.e. NC pilsner) got it at the Asheville PIzza Co. (still felt bad about not ordering a house brew) but I haven’t seen torch elsewhere in town. It poured a nice deep golden color with a pleasant aroma of resiny hops. The malts are really on display at the beginning as well. And the palate was not disappointing at all, lively carbonation, but not overpowering. I was most impressed with the hops in this beer. It reminded me of the Tuppers Hop Pocket but a bit milder. Solid beer here.

Draught at the brewpub 3/24/06: Pale clear yellow body with a small white head that is quickly fleeting. The aroma is light bread, flowery hops, and a touch of light fruit notes. Flavor starts with some spicy hops and quickly moves to grassy hops, sweet dough, bread. Light bodied, carbonated just enough to make it very crisp, very effervecent and pleasing. I think this beer does an excellent job bringing out the noble hops flavors of the Saaz hops, particularly in the flavor. I would not mind a bit more pilsener malt flavors, but love the lightly spicy/flowery/grassy hop notes that keep you drinking.

Not a pilsner fan first off, but this one was not too bad. Flavor was slightly hoppy as was the aroma.

Golden hay color, white head. Rather bland and not really that impressive. Taste is somehwat malty, a little hoppy, but all in all, this was the worst one on my sample tray.

I wasn’t expecting much from this beer and I was wrong...even though my score is 3.3. Clean golden straw colored beer. No head. Nose is more like a german pilsner than a Czech one. Lots of doughy subtle malt goodness with an apparent though unpronounced hop flower smell. Not skunky enough to be full on German though. Sugary light malts and cholorphyl-like green hops bitterness. Flavors dazzle. The malts are biscuit bready. Like a sugar cookie covered in hops. Well done with the malts. The sweet edge finishes quickly with a sharp yeasty tang that is lager-like clean with a millky edge. Hops undergird this tang and draw the beer into the finish. All in all a pilsner I would drink frequently.