Sugar Creek 12
Transient Artisan Ales

Gold in color with a hazy complexion. There’s a fingernail of eggshell white on top. There’s light lacing on the glass. The aroma is of light, crackery malt and faint grassy hops. I’m tasting sourdough bread with an edge of faint grassy hops. The malt leaves a straw like after taste. The mouth is light and smooth.

Czech Pilsner

I’ve come to appreciate Transient’s lager game over the years, to the point where I’ll grab whatever they have available. This is no exception.

Pours true to style with a slow pour leaving a hearty chefs cap on top. The beer itself started out more hop forward, initially, although at the several weeks mark —pet peeve: no canning dates— the bready notes emerge, complementing the grassy hops. Well crafted and a delight to sip.

Pours a nice, mildly cloudy pale gold color; dense, slow-rising carbonation; dense, billowy head, creamy and rocky appearance. Wonderfully fragrant smell; light grainy malt base carrying floral and mild light tropical fruit scents; light biscuit. Delicate malt flavor; very light bread crust; medium-heavy hop bitterness; grassy. Medium-heavy body; mildly coarse on the palate; fairly dry felling overall.

This is a great looking beer with some dynamic aroma components. The taste is more hop bitterness than anything else. The beer feels a tad rough for a pilsner but very clean. All in all, a nice beer where it's strengths outweigh its weaknesses.

Pouring temperature: 39 °F; canning info: n/a
Source: beer trade (with a tip of the beer glass to @Whyteboar)

Poured a translucent amber color and was capped with a tall white head that never quite went away and left sheets of lacing. Unfiltered maybe? Looks good but aren’t Pilsners supposed to be transparent? No idea.
The aroma is lost on my Covid damaged nose.
The taste is right on, excellent representation of the Noble Hops and some biscuit flavors derived from the malt, all wrapped up in a sweet envelope of honey. They don’t mention honey in the description so I’m guessing it’s from the hops. Sugar Creek Edelweiss.
Very crushable, nice beer.

Pours an unfiltered straw color with a creamy white head that forms a cap on the head as you drink the beer and coats the glass with lacing. Beautiful pilsner.

The nose is filled with noble hop notes
that lean very hard on spicy herbal aromas, and a nice amount of bread dough and honey thanks to the Edelweiss malt.

The taste has that spicy herbal flavor up front and it is delicious, followed by the bread dough, which is also delicious, but the star is the honey flavor at the back of the palate, which provides a great bridge across the other flavors.

The mouthfeel is well carbed and very crisp. Such a drinkable beer, I need to secure more of this outstanding Czech pilsner.