Krušovice Černe

Brewed by Královský pivovar Krušovice (Heineken)
Style: Schwarzbier
Krusovice, Czech Republic

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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330ml Bottle. a nice beer. Good sweet malt taste with subtle hint of hop bitterness. A well made beer. Shall buy again.

500ml bottle, best before November 2007, drank in June 2007. I chose this beer (from my stash) because I had some Chilli Edam cheese my wife had bought for my Belgian beer night and I wouldn’t let her serve it because it would have ruined the tastebuds of everyone. I wanted to eat the cheese with a beer that would complement each other. My review is for the beer before I started eating the chilli cheese, although I enjoyed it more washing down the biscuits and cheese. Poured into my Gordon’s Finest Gold thistle glass, it looks great. Dark with an off white head. The aroma is of sweet malts, the taste is weak and thin, so too the mouthfeel. I thought this might be disappointing, I wasn’t mistaken, it will help wash down the chilli cheese.

500ml bottle. Beautiful brown body with some reddish nuances. Good mocha head with small bubbles, good retention and some watery lacing. Aroma is like a real desert: lots of caramel, licorice, good coffee, rye bread, hops, smoked prunes...wonderful. First thing that kicks in with the sip, is the dry mouth feel, then some caramel, which so unusual, a non-sweet caramel. After that comes the malt and hops bitterness, the coffee, and the sparkling mineral water taste. What’s even more shocking, all this flavor at only 3.8% ABV. Truly wonderful. Want to try it on tap.

Can, 3.8%. Dark brown with big beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, light roasted malts and a little hop. Flavour is malt, chocolate, little sweet, little roasted malts, caramel, little bitter and a little nutty.

330ml bottle. Caramel and nut aromas. Pours dark copper, with nice tan head, persistent. Somelacework. Light body and low carbonation. Taste is malty and caramel sweet. Nice long finish. Quite enjoyable.

A medium beer - too much bitterness for a beer with caramel aroma. Colour almost black, foam dark. Nothing special at all.

0,5l bottle. Very dark brown, almost black color. Small tan head, stays. Aromas of caramel, banana, faint coffee. Tastes smoke, roasted malts, caramel with small hints of nuts. Very nice beer.

Dark beer is the traditional product of the Royal Brewery of Krušovice and for more than 100 years the production of this beer has not stopped. Water, barleymalt, hops and yeast.

Thin, light head on top of a dark,dark brown body. Malts and caramel with a light dose of hops that feel that they’ve unfarely been watered down. Underwhelming.

Dark, almost black pour. Big tan head with plenty of lacing as it slowly drops. A malty, roasty aroma with some notes of chocolate. Taste is a smooth malty coffee-ness. Subdued on the coffee though. Nice rich mouthfeel. A slight metallic tinge in the back. Pretty good.