Kocour Haka NZ Lager 13°

Brewed by Pivovar Kocour
Style: Premium Lager
Varnsdorf, Czech Republic

Serve in Lager glass

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(draught 0,5l) Light lemon grass, tropical fruits aroma. Hazy golden color. Huge white head. Medium sweet, light bitter, grass, some fruits flavour. Medium body. Oily texture. Bitter, astringent finish.

Bottle. Hazy orange with a beautiful, frothy head. Aroma is grainy malt plus the expected tropical NZ hop overkill - mango, passion fruit, citrus and some resin. This would be great if the smell was not so faint. Unfortunately the taste corresponds with that and lacks any intensive aroma. Sweetish, watery, with a light bitterness and a nice tropical-resiny aftertaste. If there was more aroma this would be great. As it is, it disappoints.

Small white head, fed by fine but lazy carbonation in hazy pale-orange beer. Aromatic hops wafting up upon opening, but also a point of acidity, acetic, and one strange herb piking. Bitterish, bit roasted-like and meaty at the same time. Acidity from the nose does not perpetrate into the flavour. Again this one herb-flavour - the special hops, no doubt? Bitterness is intense for a single moment, then immediately mellowing. Light body, quite carbonated. Hardly any aftertaste, just the carbonation dwindling. Decent, if unspectacular lager. Děkuji, Honza!

1 l PET bottle from Pivotéka Zlý Časy, Prague. Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of piney hops. Taste is a solid sweet malty base with a light hoppy addition,piney. Dry and clean mouthfeel. Aftertaste with a slightly minty hoppy character.

Keg at Euston Tap. Either this beer is downright awful or the keg from which I sampled had gone bad. Sour in both aroma and flavor. Just the slightest hints of hops. I’m gonna say expired. Nothing ’premium’ about this.

A - gold with little haze in it with creamy head S - absolutely outstanding on a lager beer - because special hops from New Zealand - topical fruits (pomelo, lime, lychee) and little bit of hop tones - ALE smell T - fantastic mild bitter and hoppy taste with little bit dry and bitter end M - medium to low carbonation, medium body D - high drinkability.. always thinking about the smell - you can probably distinguish there lot of fruits

xmas tasting with sky and mowbeer. 1 litre plastic bottle; decent head retention, golden; plenty of piney hops; hints of buttersscotch, lime and lychee; could be a touch more bitter but generally well-crafted and hard to understand why is would be deserving of such a modest score

Lahev: Golden, small and stable white head, a bit hazy; rural barnyardy nose with yeast and distinctive hoppy traces; demi-sec bitter-sweet flavour, light bodied; lingering hoppy and fruity finish. Not bad, but I expected more....

Tak tohle je nejluxusnější z luxusních českých piv. Pan kocour opět ukázal, že kdo umí, umí.

bottle. hazy golden color with nice head. interesting hoppy dry taste, great smell and palate. i like it!