Kujawiak 12°

Brewed by Browar w Elblagu (Zywiec Group/Heineken)
Style: Premium Lager
Elbląg, Poland

Serve in Lager glass

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UPDATED: NOV 30, 2008 <b>No 220</b>
<b>Rated: 10.09.2007 Rerated: 10.10.2008</b>
<b>Bottle brown, 500 ml, Can, 500 ml, 12 P</b>
<b>Appearance: </b>Pours nice, essential and lively golden body with a perfect body clarity and high saturation, regularly sparkling and creating snowy white, frothy, initially moderate and very firm head, very slowly decreasing or collapsing to small.
<b>Aroma: </b>Very noble, refreshing and cool hoppy top, very fresh creamyness, very well pronounced all malt, exclusively barley background, gentle yeastiness and gentle alcohol background. Very pure and clean, good quality, noble Polish Premium Lager being above the other Premium Lagers of Grupa Zywiec presenting the same level as ’Special Jasny Pelny’
<b>Flavour: </b>Front is with truffle like, noble alfa hoppyness, very pure and consistant flavour without nasty additional sweetness, soft and clean, refreshing, purely pronounced barley malt base, very spicy - leavy easily catchable bitterness on palate, when compared to the mainstream Premium Lagers like Zywiec or Tatra or Warka or even rarely found Lezajsk, those beers taste like poor hipermarket suds. Finish duration is medium. Gentle notes of alcohol and grains.
<b>Palate: </b>Body is medium, texture is wattery, carbonation on palate is soft to medium, finish feel is clean, floral, herbal, spicy, gently astringent, very neat.

Canned. Clear golden fizzy body, huge foam. Bready aroma. taste was little bit malty, more bready, some hoppy tones. Drinkable.

On the plus side of drinking again, skunky but still moderately fresh and clean. Good effervescence and color help this beer’s rating. The aroma has some nice natural hay elements and skunky, corny bits too. The flavor is moderately bitter and moderately sweet. As usual, a lot of bread flavors, but also some off flavors such as plastic and DMS.

Bottle. Clear yellow colour with fine head. Sweet malty flavour with bready grassy notes.

Bottle. Frothy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate hoppy and light malty aroma. Week grassy notes. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Watery palate. OK PL.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grass and hops. Semi oily palate.

bottled, also from can. Dark yellow colour, nearly amber, persistent head. Hoppy nose. Well-balanced hoppy and malty, otherwise nothing special to notice.

Nice lager. Golden colour, medium head. Well balanced, full, hoppy taste with slight herbal notes. Quite significant bitterness.