Gambrinus Dry

Brewed by Plzensky Prazdroj (SABMiller)
Style: Pilsener
Plzen, Czech Republic

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of yespr/KimJohansen. Clear yellow with a rough, white head. Good malty aroma, some grassy accents as well. Medium body, malt and a little cardboard and again grassy accents. The finish is dry without any greater bitterness, but surprisingly a little sweet. 141208

cooked vegetables, spruce, roasty, bread, cloudy, golden, white foam, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, lightly sour, medium body, sticky, soft carbonation, long finish, bitter,

Bottle @ Home. Pours light golden with a white head, lots of fine bubbles. Aroma of light malt and grassy hops. Taste is weak malt, caramel, and light grassy / floral hops. Thin body, lively carbonation. 210811

Bottle. Light golden color. Balanced aroma. Flavor is weak, malty tones and hops - hard to find them. Finish is dry - its true. Bottle cap is nice.

Pours clear yellow with a small white head and lacings. Sweet malty and grassy aroma. Taste is grassy and perfumy hops. Medium to watery body. Clean and drinkable.

cereal, very pale or watery colourlightly bitter, light sweetness, light body, no good flavour, light very light bitter finish. poor sugar ill people must drink this horrible beer....

Bottle, 4.0% as Gambrinus se snizenym obsahem cukru. Clear golden colour. Small stable white head. Clean flavour, medium bitterness, but mild. Slightly dry, but still good.

Bottled (thanks omhper!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is malts, some saltwater and mild toffeeish notes. Flavour is malts, toffee, some bit salty notes.

Bottled (BB 03/2009, alc. 4.0%, Vasa session). Golden color, small white head. Diacetylic, grainy aroma. Light palate. Light diacetyl flavor, quite grainy, cardboardish and weak mouthfeel. Useless.

No 670
Rated: 16.01.2009
Bottle brown, 500 ml
Appearance: Pours perfectly clear, shiny, nice looknig but rather bright golden body, carbonation of the body is very mild, head is initially moderate, slowly decreasing to small, rahter no head, head in texture is frothy, snowy white in colour.
Aroma: Nice, clean aroma of Pilsener, gentle, clean hoppyness and lightly sweet, inviting, crisp malt, barley grains are easily catchable from the beer background, nice chalkyness, not high in hoppy content but still with character, moderate in strenght, clean, pleasant, positive.
Flavour: Totally seprived of sugar, what is positive feature for being a good assertive Pilsenre, howerver thin bodied, thin malty but very clean and easily catchable ingredients with honest grainy, barley aftertaste, good quality water aspect, soft water of Pilzen makes the beer better, unfortunately not fully satisfying in being comfortably hopped, lacking in a profound bitterness but still aromatic and noble - clean hoppy profile points. Finish duration is short to medium.
Palate: Body is light, texture is wattery, carbonation on palate is soft, finish feel is quite clean, soft, gently salty, gently chalky.

Bottled. A golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt and straw. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of straw - lacks some malt, hence it is boring. The body is thin.