Krušovice Černe

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

~light lager aroma, corn, sweet malt, glass, some dark notes. ~Pours a clear black color with reddish tints, lasting off white creamy head. ~Light sweet malty corn flavor. ~creamy smooth feel. low co2, light malty finish. ~pretty typical massed produced lager. boring.

Color brown with small head. Aroma roasted malt, caramel. Taste roasted malt, bitter/sweet caramel, coffee.

Bottle. Aroma has sweet notes of faint stale cold black coffee, toffee and cereals. Very dark reddish brown hue that sits black in the glass with an average sized off white head that mostly diminished and left no lace. Flavor is quite sweet with no bitterness. Palate is light bodied and watery soft. The cereal sweetness, watery palate and no hop balance is really hard to enjoy. Just watery and sweet but tastes and feels really cheap.

Rating #367, bottle from Lagersalget @ Grønjordskollegiet

3,8 % Version. This is a black-brown beer with only a little head. Aroma is roasted malts and liquorice. Well, taste is rather boring of roasted and sour malts; notes of bread, too. The finish has some coffee and then comes a mild bitter finish. Quite thin, but considering the ABV, the body is fine.

Bottle 50cl. A dark brown ale with a medium amber head and good lacing. Smell is on amber malt and fresh bread. Aroma is full of roasted and toasted malt, quite dry and short finish. Body is low and the beers is very less alcoholic but whole aroma is nice and pleasant with several notes of bread and cereal.

500ml bottle.
Pours a frizzy and slightly murky deep red-brown, about like Pepsi but with slightly tighter carbonation. Pour produces acutely fizzy head that rather quickly vanishes. Not a big winner in the visual aesthetics department. Aroma is metallic at first sniff, then gives way to raisins and molasses. Flavor is a little weak -- showing light molasses at first; then some dried fruit; and then a pinch of lightly roasted, chocolaty grain that was rather unexpected since there was no hint of it in the aroma and turns out to be the only redeeming feature of this beer. Palate is clunky, watery and flat. Never had this beer before, and if all goes well, I’ll never have it again.

Krusovice Cerne--Original Bohemisches Schwarzbier--2007--16.9 oz. Bottle. 3.80% ABV. 15 IBU’s? (3.5 / 5.0) 2 @ $2.99 Each. Thin tan head. Clear thin ruby black color. Lightly toasted mild hop smoke hint front. Crisp roasted mild sweet thin toasted coffee black malt body. Refreshing smooth easy mild hop end. Thin delicate Schwarzbier. Sampled 5/3/2009.

59 cl bottle, Prague, Czech Republic. Slightly denser than cola appearance, sweet balanced aroma. Sweet with a slight bitterness that turns to caramel and burnt malt on the finish.