2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle 50cl. @ [ Chris O’s pre NYE Tasting ].
Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, vegetable, cardboard, cabbage water, sour malt notes. Flavor is light to moderate sweet and light bitter with a average. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081230]
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. Yellowish golden colour, small white head, Aroma is quite much grass and earth along with some mild sweet touches to it. Flavour is quite much the same,
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
500ml bottle at Chris o New Year tasting 08/09. Clear gold, thin white head. Bit of yeast on aroma. OK pils, not particularly interesting, but no real off flavours.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottled as "Czech Premium Lager" from Co-op (BB 07/2010, at Chriso).
Golden color, small white head. Sweet corn and grassy aroma. Woody, a bit buttery flavor, sweet finish. Clean, but quite industrial.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Co-Op Manchester Piccadilly 04/12/2009
Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured smooth on the palate and hoppy with a little dryness in a crisp floral malt finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Golden with a small white head. Grainy malt and straw aroma. Sweet grainy malt flavour with a hint of grassy hops and a decent bitter finish
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
500 ml. bottle. Jan 09 date. Light grassy aroma. Medium dark gold color with a fine white head. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Rather bready with not all that much hop. Finish is dryish, and a little bitter. Note: I don’t think this is Staropramen Ležák (Premium Lager) 12°. My notes on that don’t match those for this one very well. Course that was another day.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: AUG 8, 2009 500ml bottle from Waitrose. Best before June 2009. Mid gold colour. Not much head. Some biscuity malt throughout. Touch of cardboard in the aroma. Not much hop character in evidence. So-so. I agree with bhensonb that this did seemed rather different to the Staropramen 12 (better). Perhaps the same as the Vratislav available in Tesco but who knows.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
bottle, from Waitrose Sidmouth. Clear golden colour, white head. Malty, medium-bodied with shy hints of apple and a touch of cheap-ish hops. All right, but not really convincing. Good malty body, but the hops let it down tremendously.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle at chris o’s teabag for 2009 tasting. Alround rating: Standard herbal hoppy puilsner, but overcarbonated and poor malt character.
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