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Brewed by King Brewery
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Nobleton, Canada

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RATINGS: 114   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.16   EST. CALORIES: 144   ABV: 4.8%
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Authentic European Style Pilsner 4.8% alc./vol. True to style in every regard, this authentic Czech-style Pilsner is truely unique in North America. The beer is brewed with an all imported Plisner malt, all Saaz hops and a true Czech yeast strain. The brewery uses only distilled water and remineralizes it to deliver an authentic taste every time. The bright golden pilsner is a full-bodied, refreshingly great tasting beer. It delivers a soft texture, complimented by the proper balance of malt and Saaz hops. Its flavour begins with a pleasing malty or bready taste but is sufficiently hopped to impart a dry bitter tang with a very clean finish. This is a very inviting beer that compliments many foods and has enough body to compliment even the heaviest of meals. This complex beer provides a more flavourful yet true to style option to some of the more popular imports. Consumers are quoted as saying "there is not a beer in Canada that tastes like King Pilsner", or "this beer tastes like the true Pilsners in Europe" King Pilsner is considered Ultra Premium because no expense is spared to produce this world-class beer. It is made with the best of ingredients, and most importantly the water is distilled and the mineral content adjusted to match the water table of the beers country of origin (in this case the Czech Republic). This provides a flavour profile that only the truest of Pilsners can match. These ingredients as well as King's proprietary process delivers one of the best tasting beers in the world!


2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Ungstrup (24020) - Oamaru, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 4, 2008
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007. A lightly hazy golden beer iwth a thin lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of straw and malt. The flavor is sweet mlaty with notes of straw, leading to a dry bitter finish with notes of hay lingering.

2.6
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
oh6gdx (16084) - Vasa, FINLAND - SEP 29, 2007
Bottled@SBWF2007. Yellowish golden colour with small white head. A very cleanly made pils both to the aroma and flavour. Refreshing and easy to drink.

2.7
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
omhper (15964) - Stockholm, SWEDEN - SEP 28, 2007
UPDATED: DEC 25, 2007 Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Pale golden, brief head. Papery malt aroma. Dry and medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Lightly grassy. Finishes with medium bitterness. Not at all all a bad effort, but I’d like my pilseners more crisp and with less cardboard.

3.1
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
fiulijn (10421) - Como, ITALY - DEC 1, 2007
Bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007
Hazy light blond color. Light malt and hop aroma. Dry mouthfeel, well hopped. Not amazing but a notch above the average. Strong bitterness.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
Oakes (10198) - Gibsons, British Columbia, CANADA - OCT 19, 2002
Amendment 10/02: Solid shot of hops - like most pilsners this doesn’t last very long but found ultra-fresh this is damn fine (upgrade from 3.3 to 3.6)

Original notes: Golden, flowery, honeyish, curranty aroma; crisp finish, good malt character.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
TBone (9433) - Pori, FINLAND - SEP 30, 2007
Bottled@SBWF 2007
Golden color, off-white head, lace. Sticky hayish-fresh hoppy aroma. Grass hoppy flavor, some buttery notes. Grassy aftertaste. Decent imitation of Czech pils.

3.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Lubiere (7002) - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - AUG 1, 2006
Blonde lager with a thin white head. Light herbal malt aroma. In mouth, a classy czech hop, with crisp malt, very classy. Hops do linger in mouth. Light grafruit notes develop later. Medium bodied.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
JoeMcPhee (6967) - Toronto, ON, Ontario, CANADA - APR 8, 2008
Tap at Volo. Pale golden beer, thick white head. Aroma is great. Fresh pale straw aroma, sweet floral hoppiness and lots of soft pilsner malt. Sweet maltiness but with a crisp bitterness on the back. Soft floral hop flavour. It’s not a massively hopped pils, but it’s quite nice. Very floral with a soft herbal bitterness.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 12/20
JorisPPattyn (6747) - Antwerpen, BELGIUM - DEC 25, 2006
Golden-yellow beer; fast disappearing white head. Vanilla, freshly ground coffeebeans, going over in fresh, warm pilsnermalt, tad cookies. No hops discernible? At least, in the taste there are (quite) some hops overlying the straw-y, haylike malts. Actually, pretty bitter with some metallic tang. Pleasing, if somewhat aggressive flavours. I would’ve classified it under Classic German pilsner, rather than Bohemian, (despite the Saaz), but the difference is meagre. Again hay retronasal. Medium bodied, grist slickness. Nowhere bad, this "Ultra Premium" Pilsner. Txs, Stephen!

3
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 13/20
MartinT (6350) - Montreal, Quebec, CANADA - DEC 11, 2003
UPDATED: NOV 11, 2005 Plenty of sticky foam to coat the mineral, citrusy perfume...Saaz character is detected, as well as a distinctive wooden hop presence...Too much carbonation and a lack of pils malt point to a vycepni flavorwise, more than the lezak category of Czech pils...Sulphur stares at the onset and hops linger slightly...An uninspired but palatable portrait of Bohemia...


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