Tillerman Pils
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom

473ml can - always nice to see my original fave style, made by a local craft brewer, even if this is the first that I've had from them since they cashed out. No disrespect intended.

This beer pours a crystal clear, pale golden yellow colour, with two skinny fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some random active rain cloud pattern lace around the glass as it slowly evaporates.

It smells of gritty and crackery cereal malt, a hint of petrol, some lemon-forward tart citrus fruitiness, and even-handed leafy, herbal, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and biscuity pale malt, some mixed pome and citrus fruity notes, a hard water flintiness, faint gasoline fumes, and more steady leafy, musty, and floral noble hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-buoying frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and more or less smooth, all depending on your particular tolerance for the flavours on display here. If finishes trending dry, the arid nature of the hops and waning malt contributing equally.

Overall - well, I gotta say, this is certainly one of the more true to the real deal versions of a Czech Pils that I have encountered from an Albertan brewer. Practically bang-on, if my now fading memories still serve.