Kraftbrau Bohemian

Formerly brewed at Kraftbrau Brewery
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

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On tap @ the brewpub: Pours a yellow gold with a white head. Aroma, grassy and floral hops, some yeast and bready pale malts. Flavor, pale malts up front with some fruity notes, and a floral hop finish.

draft at the brewpub - Pours hazy gold and has a mild hops aroma. This one tastes very well balanced. It’s a fairly light flavor as befits the style and finishes clean and crisp. It won’t blow most people away, but it’s a light, enjoyable session brew.

Decent, if unremarkable, Czech-style pilsener. Some fruitiness in the initial flavor...someone said tart cherries, I dunno, but i’ll go with it. Could stand some more carbonation for my liking. Drinkable but better choices are to be found here.

Well balanced, proper amount of bitterness. Soft, fuzzy mouthfeel. A little bit a of a kick above typical pils. Malty, carbonated. Mossy.

UPDATED: NOV 29, 2007 Unfiltered draft sampler at Kraftbrau. Here’s the defining moment for a self-professed beer geek. Can I actually tell the difference between types of lagers at this lager-specialty pub? Maybe not in a blind tasting, but at least I could tell they were different.

This is much lighter in hops and carbonation that the <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/Beer/Beer-Rev Home Brew I had before this. The head is thin and just wanders off its slightly hazy body. This has a very slight cherry tinge from the yeast. That settles down and it finishes more like a plain ol’ lager.

As much as I profess not to like Lagers/Pilsners, I must say that I'm not sure there's anything any more appealing than a Pilsner, fresh from the DBF, chilled to perfection, poured correctly into a room temperature Pilsner Glass, as it stands there all proud with its gold body crowned by a bright white head and the condensation forming and running down the glass, just makes your mouth water doesn't it?

The beer as it excavates itself from the 12 ounce brown bottle is the quintessential pilsner limpid gold color with a modest bright white head that is semi-creamy in texture, the lace forms a velum like curtain to drape the glass. Nose is the prototypical pilsner sweet malt, quite crisp and fresh to the senses, the start is slightly sweet, nice malt presence, and the top is fair to middling in its feel to the palate. Finish has a moderate acidity, the hops personable in their spiciness, quite dry and long lasting aftertaste. As I’m on the “Fat Boy” program, and I just finished an hours worth of PT, that’s “Physical Training” for you civilian types, this beer sure does hit the “B” Spot” and as I can have only one beer a day, I choose them quite carefully, and I must say a good choice on my part!

A tale of two Kraftbrau pilseners ended on this sad note. Bohemian is a boring lager, reminiscent of St. Pauli Girl, Beck's, or other cheap imports. It even had a skunky aroma, which was surprising as this poured from a brown bottle. Probably just the nature of the hops. Poured cloudy yellow-orange, with a white head. Bland, lightly spicy (and skunky) aroma ended with a floral, semi-fruity but unsatisfying flavor reminiscent of said overrated beverages. I'm sorry the tale began on such an optimistic note but ended in a less satisfying manner!

This looks like a belgium white beer. Orange cloudy beer with pronounced white head. Funny I read this below. It does smell like pepperoni pizza! Cheese, salt, sulfur. Tastes like a belgian white, lemon citrus flavor and wheat. Tastes better than it smells. Not the best but OK for Kraftbrau. Keeps them jumping with Bell's.

Straw hue with almost no head or lacing. Perplexing aroma of piney and spicy hops, toasted malts, cheesy yeast, salt and orange zest. Hints of a pepperoni pizza? Watery and fizzy mouthfeel leads to a grass like hop and dry malt taste. Short and clean finish. Salty tones are detected as well during the aftertaste. An okay summer quaffer, would rather have a true Czech Pils over this.

Got this in a growler two days ago, and finally got a chance to have it. Quite sweet really, rather watery too. Not much of a palate here, except for a slight hoppy finish, (very slight at that.)