Lezajsk Pelne 12°

Brewed by Zywiec (Zywiec Group/Heineken)
Style: Premium Lager
Zywiec, Poland

Serve in Lager glass

Very little to brag about here; straw colour with a medium head. The aroma smells like my lawn. The flavour was mediciny.

500 mL bottle. I see neither "Pelne" nor "12*" on the bottle, but otherwise everything matches. Pale gold, essentially no head, lovely aroma. Smells like beer. With lime and pepper. Taste mirrors the aroma, with the additions of mild soap(!?) and sweet fruit. Let’s go with peaches, as probstk mentioned earlier. Not too sweet, though. A touch of hops, but the finish is rather abrupt. I like this better than most of its peers. At least it’s not a pilsener.

My neighbour and I love to play chess outside on his deck on a summer’s eve. Being polish and proud of his heritage, he always has some new polish brew for me to try. Until this day, I had always pretended to like the swill he’d have lined up for me. Today this opinion of polish beer changed... This Lezajsk beer is actually pretty decent. Floral, light aroma. Golden yellow nicely carbonated body with no head and sparse if altogether nonexistent lacing. Peaches, sweet apples and light hops made for an unexpected and welcomed surprise. The mouthfeel is light and well balanced with the carbonation for an overall refreshing brew. I’ll have to remember to point this beer out to my neighbour next summer.

500 mL bottle from LCBO. App.: med. straw with a foamy white head. Aroma: peach and apricots (huh??), light hops in the background. Palate: med.-light body and med.-low carbonation. Flav.: There’s a hint of that peachiness, a bit of light malt and barely a whisper of hops. No aftertaste to speak of. Light.

(bottle - 500 ml) Pale yellow with a fizzy white head. Light and grassy aroma with the lightest touch of hops. Flavor starts out sweet and oddly spicy with a smooth and grainy middle and a very sweet finish. Flavor doesn’t last very long at all on the palate. Quite watery.

Bottle in Florida. Poured clear pale color with an average fizzy white head that was mostly lasting with fair lacing. Moderate grassy and grainy aroma. Light to medium body with lively carbonation. Medium balanced flavor with a medium bitter finish of moderate duration. My expectation where met.

Flaxen with a light head. Toast malts in the nose and a pepper quality. Almost soapy. The pepper stands out the most, but citrus is in there as well. Some malts, but the hops seem to cover more. A tingly finish. Not too bad.

Gold in colour with medium carbonation. Mild grainy aroma with a bit of a corn note. Flavors are a combination of grainy and sweet pale malts and a touch of grassy hops and black pepper on the finish. Smooth bitterness. A pretty standard Eastern European lager. It went ok with the steak I was eating at the time.