Up Swift Creek Pilsner
Three Ranges Brewing Company
- From:
- Three Ranges Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.69 | pDev: 5.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2026
- Added:
- May 20, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.5/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Valemount 18/7 2018. 33 cl can from BC Liquor in Valemount. From the local brewery in the miniscule town. A horserider and a car (!) moving up Swift Creek on the label.
Pours slightly hazy yellow with a big white head. Settles as a frothy 2 cm thick layer of foam clinging to the side of the glass. Substantial lacing.
Aroma is not particularly strong and a bit sweetish. Sweet malts, honey and light sourish notes.
Light carbonation. Thin, watery, lively texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by strong bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Lingers for a short while.
Nice crisp Pilsner which does exactly what it is supposed to - quench my thirst - while being nicely bitter at the same time.
Feb 21, 2026Pours slightly hazy yellow with a big white head. Settles as a frothy 2 cm thick layer of foam clinging to the side of the glass. Substantial lacing.
Aroma is not particularly strong and a bit sweetish. Sweet malts, honey and light sourish notes.
Light carbonation. Thin, watery, lively texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by strong bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Lingers for a short while.
Nice crisp Pilsner which does exactly what it is supposed to - quench my thirst - while being nicely bitter at the same time.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.9/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.9/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can, a new arrival to Alberta from just a wee bit across the border in BC. What's the joke here - Up Shit Creek? Up on Cripple Creek? Aaaaah, Swift Creek runs past Valemount, got it!
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with a strangely rising tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some random sudsy island group lace around the glass as it quickly abates.
It smells of biscuity and grainy pale malt, white saltine crackers, muddled white grapefruit and lemon citrus, a touch of wayward lager yeast, and some leafy, herbal and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and still pleasantly biscuity pale malt, additional indistinct cereal grains, some apple, pear, and disjointed citrus fruitiness, a laid-back yeastiness, and more gentle earthy, dirty leafy, and grassy noble hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite active in both their supportive and sometime palate-teasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, only a hint of the apologetically zingy hoppiness making unwelcome inroads here - so be it! It finishes trending dry, the (again, yeah!) biscuity malt kind of lording itself over all.
Well, I made my initial assertion about the Pils nature of this one based on my experience with people in the near-West side of the Continental Divide - i.e. zee Germans, zey pervade. That said, the biscuity nature of this offering dominates, and that's great, but I feel that a few or more other lager notes are overwritten in the process. Just a note, of course, because I could slam this stuff back like there was no tomorrow and no other options (and no offense intended).
May 22, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with a strangely rising tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some random sudsy island group lace around the glass as it quickly abates.
It smells of biscuity and grainy pale malt, white saltine crackers, muddled white grapefruit and lemon citrus, a touch of wayward lager yeast, and some leafy, herbal and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and still pleasantly biscuity pale malt, additional indistinct cereal grains, some apple, pear, and disjointed citrus fruitiness, a laid-back yeastiness, and more gentle earthy, dirty leafy, and grassy noble hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite active in both their supportive and sometime palate-teasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, only a hint of the apologetically zingy hoppiness making unwelcome inroads here - so be it! It finishes trending dry, the (again, yeah!) biscuity malt kind of lording itself over all.
Well, I made my initial assertion about the Pils nature of this one based on my experience with people in the near-West side of the Continental Divide - i.e. zee Germans, zey pervade. That said, the biscuity nature of this offering dominates, and that's great, but I feel that a few or more other lager notes are overwritten in the process. Just a note, of course, because I could slam this stuff back like there was no tomorrow and no other options (and no offense intended).
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