Upland Preservation Pilsner

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Bloomington, Indiana USA

Just not for me. Pours a golden yellow with a frothy head. Flavor is nice, crisp and clean. Nice balance. Just didn’t jump out at me.

tap at Mad Anthony Oktoberfest - Pours clear light yellow with a thin white head. It has a very mild pale malt aroma. The bready malt led flavor is lightly fruity and has mild hops in the flavor increasing to a moderately bitter finish.

GTMW 08 - Pours clear yellow with a white soapy head. The aroma has some skunky grass and pale malt. Medium body with frothy carbonation. The flavor still has the skunky grass, but it is grassier and less skunk - way cleaner than the aroma. An okay pils.

on tap at GTMW ’08. pours slightly hazy golden with creamy white head. nose is spicy, grassy hop aroma. flavor is nicely bitter with spicy and grassy green hop notes. lots of fresh hop character. extremely clean finish. i could drink this all day.

Aroma is biscuit and sulfur along with some bitterness. Taste is similar, but finishes grassy and dry. Disappointing.

Pours yellow, clear. Moderate mouth feel, akin to a Dortmunder. Flavor is plesantly grassy with a sharp, but not overly so, bitterness to finish off.

Draught at the pub. Clear deep golden pour with a creamy white head. Great hoppy nose, slightly floral. Nice pretzel malt taste, firm malty backbone, and a musty, almost Fuggly hop profile with a memory of salt. Strong bitterness with a long, bitter, bone-dry aftertaste. Has a really nice German spiciness in the mid-body. Full-bodied for a pilsner with a little brewpub yeast. Burps are delicious. Seems to hold up well against food, but might be a bit wearying after some volume. A delicious everyday pils - solid if unspectacular.

Rich golden yellow with almost no head, really just a white ring (probably more a testament to the pouring skills of the bartender rather than a lack of carbonation). Peppery hops. A bit grainy and toasty in terms of the malt nose. Light sweetness. Fruity to floral hops come out a bit, like in most of Uplands beers. Creamy mouthfeel with appropriate to slightly high carbonation. Not particularly watery, just right. The flavors pop a bit more than the nose. Peppery hops dominate the Upland house flavor hop profile. Rather dry. Refreshing. About what a pilsner should be. Perhaps a bit fruitier on the back end than I’d like, but this is more or less how most of Upland ‘s standard offerings come out, so maybe it’s the yeast. Not a bad pilsner at all.