Commons
Upstreet Craft Brewing
- From:
- Upstreet Craft Brewing
- Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Style:
- Czech / Bohemian Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 9.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 27, 2023
- Added:
- Jul 07, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
Our take on a Bohemian classic. Balanced and crisp, this local lager might be your new favourite brew. The Pilsner style comes from Pilsen, Czech Republic, the original city in which it was brewed. Following tradition we wanted to name our Upstreet Pilsner after its birthplace. In the 18th century, our brewery site was in "the Commons" - the outskirts of Charlottetown proper.
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Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.59/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Gold with a good head. Bready malt nose with strong carbonation in the medium body. A good go-to safe bet for a Pilsner around town.
Mar 18, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle - big thanks to my beer genie Mark for schlepping this back from PEI for me this week!
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of sparse island group lace in places around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy pilsener malt, musty apples, a minor flintiness, and decent leafy, grassy, and damp hay-like hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a wisp of weird smokiness, some mixed apple and lemon rind fruitiness, persistent hard water notes, and more plain leafy, grassy, and somewhat floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite forward in its palate-tickling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really interfering with that metric here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt and fruitiness watching the hop bitterness recede into the void.
Overall, this is an earnest attempt at a true Bohemian Pilsener, however it comes across way less crisp and edgy than the better examples of the style. That's not to say that it's lacking in flavour, because it's good and drinkable, in its very own right. Worthy of checking out, as a summertime (there's always next year) staple.
Sep 23, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of sparse island group lace in places around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of gritty and grainy pilsener malt, musty apples, a minor flintiness, and decent leafy, grassy, and damp hay-like hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a wisp of weird smokiness, some mixed apple and lemon rind fruitiness, persistent hard water notes, and more plain leafy, grassy, and somewhat floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite forward in its palate-tickling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really interfering with that metric here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt and fruitiness watching the hop bitterness recede into the void.
Overall, this is an earnest attempt at a true Bohemian Pilsener, however it comes across way less crisp and edgy than the better examples of the style. That's not to say that it's lacking in flavour, because it's good and drinkable, in its very own right. Worthy of checking out, as a summertime (there's always next year) staple.
Reviewed by MattChiasson from Canada (ON)
4/5 rDev +5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Really great craft take on a classic Czech pilsner style. 500ml bottle poured a nice pale gold, slightly hazy. I got aromas of cereal, grassy hops, wet stone, with some light lemon undertones. Crisp and refreshing. Enjoyed it.
Aug 05, 2016
Reviewed by PorterPro125 from Canada (NB)
3.48/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Serving Type: 500 mL Bottle
A- Pours a hazy pale amber topped by a 1/2 finger white head. Light lacing on the glass.
S- Gentle apple and grain aroma.
T- Sweetness from apple, grain, and a touch of floral hops.
M- Medium body and fairly low carbonation.
O- Seems like more of a toned down Pale Ale to me, not a Czech Pils. Regardless, Upstreet Commons is an easy drinking, solid beer.
Jul 19, 2016A- Pours a hazy pale amber topped by a 1/2 finger white head. Light lacing on the glass.
S- Gentle apple and grain aroma.
T- Sweetness from apple, grain, and a touch of floral hops.
M- Medium body and fairly low carbonation.
O- Seems like more of a toned down Pale Ale to me, not a Czech Pils. Regardless, Upstreet Commons is an easy drinking, solid beer.
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