Kocour Pale Ale

Brewed by Pivovar Kocour
Style: English Pale Ale
Varnsdorf, Czech Republic

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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on tap at slunce ve skle 2008, a good choice to start the day with. rich amber with a firm bubbly head; aroma of grassy hop clumps, apparently centennial; faintly salty, very dry, perhaps could use a bit more citric bite but extremely drinkable nonetheless

Pale golden colored pour. Small white head and a little lacing as it recedes quickly. Aroma of malt and a big bouquet of hops. There is a slight buttery aroma. Taste is malty and a bit of hops. A little diluted with a slight, slight bitterness.

Gold in color with white head. Light fruity-hop aroma. A nice light pale ale with descent hop character. Notes: Czech visit ’11

UPDATED: JUN 16, 2011 0.3L bottle from U Medvidku. The pour yields a hazy, dark, burnt orange-amber hue with a small head of bubbly off-white froth. Hard, dense swaths of arched lacing mark the glass. The aroma is very malty and toffee driven, hinting also at toast and baking bread dough. Floral and citrus hops seem faded and distant, showing only glimpses of what they might have been at one point. Flavors seem a little stale and lifeless, showing mostly honey glazed cereal and old grain. Hops are dry and grassy, definitely faded and past their time. It seems like it would be pretty solid when fresh. The palate sports a medium body with average carbonation and a drying finish. Meh.

And so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale ale.

Bottle. Hazy honey brown with medium sized, sustaining head. Aroma apart from being grainy-malty, bready, with some rice and honey is above all very fruity, thanks in part to American hops. Peaches, apricots, lemon, apples and pears. Rather high carbonation and oily palate. Taste is above all very fruity once again, slightly bready, very subtly sweet-sour, peripherically grassy-hoppy, with a moderate citrussy bitterness. Great!

bottle from Prague Beer Festival. Decent ale with pleasant taste and palate, but not the best ale from Kocour.

Bottle from Pivonka, Hradec Kralove. Pours light hazy, golden with a big frothy snow white head. Aroma of grainy malts, light grassy hops as well. Taste is smooth, light bitter with a lingering grassy and resiny hops aftertaste. Medium bodied, and well tasting beer.

Bottle@Home. Flowers and butter. Yellow, white head, fair lace. Sweetish, butter, hint of sourness, light bitter, floral. Thin.

From Zly Casy. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruity and slight spiced to herbal. Fruity, caramelish and slight herbal to grassy. Bitter, dry and hoppy finish.