3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours clear golden with a light white head. Aroma is a bit more bitter than your average lager, there’s some more flavor too with a slightly bitter finish. Very decent.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Pours a clear gold with thin head. Not my favorite, standard pilsner with a little more bitterness, i think its kind of "Meh".
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a beautiful clear gold. It’s fun to look at the surface of the fluid from underneath and observe the table reflected off of it with the bubbles steadily rising and getting caught in it then popping, like snow on the ground when its not quite cold enough. The smell... mmm how surprising when put next to other pilsners. It is sweet and yet subtly smokey, like corn that was roasted for too long over a fire. The flavor is similar with the sweetness being more sweet and less funkily entangled with smoky malt. It feels nice and finishes with a mild bitterness that I like.
3.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAY 14, 2010 4.19.10Bottle. Faint notes of golden malt and perfectly balanced bitterness. Incrediblly light body followed with a biscuit like malt richness. The crisp finish does not take away but rather enhances the malt-hop balance. Saaz hops add a delicate yet spicy aroma. A very good Bo-pils, excellent for those new to beer or new to the style.
Follow-up 5.14.10 CAN. Soft water and biscuity maltiness definitely shine through more so in the canned version. dough-like maltiness. crisp finishing yet with substanial body.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle, home. Pours a very pretty golden color, a shade darker than most pilseners that I’ve had, transparent, tight white head. The aroma has notes of grass, yeast and clean grain. The flavor is yeasty, drier than most pilsener-style lagers, more clean grain with a light hoppy bitterness. Refreshing and drinkable but definitely not the best pilsener.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
The classic Pilzen. What can I say? A classic head, lovely on the eye. A great golden haze of wonder. Just how a pilzen should be. Poured into stein glass. The bottle is imported from Czech Republic. It is quite fresh but like all hells and good pilsners this style needs to be drunk QUICKLY. I have had this in Prague too. There is a lovely light texture however a slighrt off metalicy edge. It’s very intersting. I get hey; citrus hops and doughy yeast. The beer is good. It’s classic. It should be respected and we have a duty to prevent this beer being degraded for the wider commerical world. This is what larger louts should be drinking....
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is malt, grassy hop and butterscotch. Flavour is malt, medium bitter, butterscotch and grassy hop.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
This is a beer that doesn’t travel well, and by the time the export version reaches the States it has lost much of what it truly special. If you are an aficionado of pilsner-style beer, then you must make the trek to the brewery in Plzen. One taste of this beer, fresh from the tap, and you understand why this is the model for all the rest that came after it.
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