Birrë e Pejës Pilsner

Formerly brewed at Birra Peja
Style: Pilsener
Pejë, Kosovo

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Sampled at our own little ’Country Festival’ during Københavnske Øldage 2006.
Golden in color with a snow white head. Grain in the aroma with a slightly burned character and some cheese and vomit notes - not good! The flavor is rancid as hell and leaves my mounth dry as a biscuit. Has some citrusy and hoppy notes. Not a beer for me at all, but great with a new country!

Bottled 33cl. Courtesy of Bov. It reminds me a lot of Budweiser Budvar. Very pleasant - What a nice pilsener! I’m impressed. Another very good beer from the brewery. Thanks Bov!

Draft and from bottle in Kosovo. Draft beer is better than bottled. It’s more fresh. Golden color, small head. Some hoppy tones in aroma. Flavor is watery.

UPDATED: MAR 4, 2008 not great, but by default probably the best Kosovar beer. Scored in the hotel Drenica, next to Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosove railway station. a fairly standard beer for the region, little aroma due to low hop rates. it’s not as bad as many make out - maybe it doesn’t travel well, it was certainly not pasteurised when I had it so may not survive journeys? and of course, as of last week it counts as a country scored for beer!

Bottle - country tasting - Kobehavnske Oldage, May 2006. After a run of tropical lagers I half thought something from Europe might be a little better. I was wrong. Pale gold. Lots of doughy malt and grain. Too sweet. No discernible hops. Not impressed.

Bottled, alc. 4.0%, bottled 03/2007
Golden color, white head. Vegetables, ash and metal in the nose. Ashy hoppy flavor, light and unclean with metallic notes. Poor, but another new beer country!

Bottled (Thanks Bov!). Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is malty and hoppy along with some grains and maize. Flavouer is grains, some maize, some rubber and some balancing hops. Quite pilsenerish, even though it’s quite bad.

A bit weak aroma, herbal hoppy and grainy, corny notes. Golden color, medium white head. Flavor is a bit sweet, malty and notes of straw. Light hoppy, herbal, quite bitter finish. A bit watery and light bodied but quite drinkable.

Blond color. Light aroma of hay. No malt taste; ends with high bitterness.<!-- br -->

Bottle. Very mainstream in flavour. In fact quite void of any flavour, and definitely void of good flavour. Slightly undeveloped malt sweetness, and not a lot else, quite fizzy.

A light yellow beer with a white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt, grain, and brewing cereal, giving it a sour tinge. The flavor is a mixture of sweet and sour (from brewing cereal) and notes of grain.