Gambrinus Premium Svetlý Ležák 12°

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

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Canned(500ml). -much better than Pilsner Urquell

Die Schaumkrone hält mittelmäßig. Der ausgeprägte und ausgereifte Hopfengeschmack gefällt mir gut er ist schön herb, ausserdem ist es leicht malzig. Im Nachgeschmack leicht alkoholisch wobei die Herbe des Hopfens auch hier, das Bier prägt. Ansonsten fällt auf das ziemlich viel CO² vorhanden ist. Test vom 13.6.2009, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 9,12,11,12,13,11 - 11,20

Bottle. Lovely collaberation between citrus/grassy hops and light, palateable mcaramel malt. An ideal hot weather beer. It served me very well.

500 ml bottle from Germany, labled ’Premium - Original Pilsener Recepe’. And it really tastes like a proper pils. Probably the best I’ve ever tried. Bitter, fruity, great!

Pours golden with gentle steady bubbles and a nice head. The nose has pale malt and a nice citrus zing. The taste has more citrus, then green beans, the pale malt kicks in and there?s more of the citrus and herb finish at the end. The palate is light to medium bodied with a medium but very tight texture and a ling clean finish. Overall, good example of a well made pilsener.

Brown 0.5 litre bottle, best before 18th Aug 2009, drank on my first ever night in Prague (18th Mar 2009). Just flown in and found the hotel, wife is ill with a snotty nose and a cough to die for, I’m obviously ’up for it’ and wanting to hit the bars and night-life. Compromise required, one bar and a night shop was the best I could negotiate. Great bar, but snotty nose wasn’t having any of it, we had to leave after my third beer or the whole trip would have been put in jeopardy. The ’Night-Shop’ had a crap selection of beers, catering for low-life and tourists with no beer knowledge or taste. I choose this beer (and a couple more) to ease my pain of an early night. Sat on my hotel bed, with a wheezing wife ruining the nights silence, I poured the beer into a small tumbler which should have held my toothbrush (five times). The beer looked good, each little dribble into the tumbler produced a deep golden yellow coloured beer, with a well formed white head. As with almost all lager/pilsners the body was clean, clear and bright. My night was getting better, The aroma must have been lost in the pouring because I found nothing to write about. The beer gets my standard 3 for odourless pils/lagers. I found the taste and flavours to be grainy for a pilsner, crisp and tangy. Better than most in this style of beer anyway. It also had a body and depth unlike so many lager/pilsner beers, nothing huge or really interesting, just heavier than most. I would obviously prefered to have stayed out, but at least I’ve reviewed a beer while in Prague, even if it is from notes made while in a hotel room listening to the wife snore and wheeeze.

0,5l bottle. Dark yellow color. Medium thick head, stays. Aroma is somewhat metallic and cardboard. Taste is same cardboard, hops, lightly bitter finish. PS. I’ve also had this on tap in Czech and it was divine compared to this bottle.

Well ... what can I say about this beer, except that it’s really disgusting! Perhaps there is something nice in this brew, , I do not know, the only thing that appears is: grainy malt, sour malt and hops with a dull coarse bitterness.

Very malty, crisp, Clean, minerals, bread, dough, golden colour, medium white head, same flavours as in the nose, low bitterness.

dough, roasty, cooked vegetables, amber, clear, frothy, medium sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, medium body, sticky, average carbonation, bitter,

Golden colour with a large white head. Hoppy aroma. Somewhat sweet flavour.