Kocour Saurus 19°

Brewed by Pivovar Kocour
Style: Smoked
Varnsdorf, Czech Republic

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Actually, "my" Saurus claims 20° Plato... Good yellow head over foxy copper-amber clear beer. Hops, bit nutty, caramel, parsley. (Hazel-)nutoil wafting up with warming. Quite bitterish, with caramel, as the caramel-hazelnut lollipops from the fairgrounds, but not really sweet. Like an ultra Ur-Bock, leafy and leaning towards dry attenuation, and better hopped. Caramel to toffee retronasal. Only after a lot of warming up, and then only retronasal, one gets phenolic smokiness. Medium bodied at least. Good balance sweet-bitter and rather well-carbonated MF. One to grow upon you. Congrats, Jan, with this recipe! Many thanks to Honza and Denisa!

Bottled.Brownish Amber with a very small head that disappears very shortly after you pour it.An earthy Aroma also that includes,candy sugar,prune,apple peal,soil and tree bark.A very creamy,sweet fruity taste that fades into a very piney,bug spray like aftertaste.The sweetness slowly disappears but the creaminess is gone the moment the bitterness kicks in.I can’t say I’ve ever had anything like it!

Bottle 100cl. plastic.

Unclear medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, caramel sweet, smoke, light earthy. Initial flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, smoked, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120317]

Ulfborg Scooper Smagning 2012. Hazy amber with a small white head. Bready malt aroma with a hint of caramel. Faint campfire smoke. Sweet malty flavour with smokey notes and a bit of hops in the finish

Bottle @ FOneFan. hazy amber/orange with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and a little smoke. Flavour is malt, caramel, medium sweet, little toffee, little smoke, little meat, hops and medium bitter.

Bottle @ Mid March Tasting, Ulfborg 2012. Bought @ Pivoteka Zly Casy. Pours cloudy ruby amber with a small creamy head. Mild smoke, wood, caramel and hops. Medium and smooth. Quite nice and a very clean Kocour (A rarity).

on tap at the vánoční pivní besídka plzeň in cernice. rich shade of amber; mildly hammy nose with light lemon zest; menthol, grassy, very light in the rauchiness department and seemed to be missing something

Bottle. Strong but very smooth taste, medium long palate, nice dark copper color, small head. Enjoyable.

Bottle, bought at U Medvidku.
BBD 20100508...
Poured hazy deep amber with a nice medium foamy offwhite head. Aroma of fruktose or some PEZ.candy, yeast and caramel. After a while the peat character opens with a sourish chartacter. Robust body with smoke and peat, earth in the mouth. Yeast and molasses, fruits and the fructose, and the peat, and the sourish peat again with pinneapple-like tastes.... Tales from the paleolit side! And yes, tales from the hard side!(BIOHAZARD...;-)) Wow! Really good one;-)

bottle from U Medvídků. Brown colour, mid-sized beige head. Smoky nose. Full-bodied, malty base with a nice smoky character. American citrusy hops go well with the smoky character of the beer. Interesting and very convincing.