Pilsner Urquell

Brewed by Plzensky Prazdroj (SABMiller)
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Plzen, Czech Republic

This is a great pilsener. For some reason, they bottle this beer in green bottles which causes it’s skunky flavor when exposed to light. Get this beer fresh and on tap and you will be amazed. Great hop aroma and flavor. Intense bitterness for a pilsener, almost to the point of being overhopped. No skunkiness when drank fresh and on tap. Pilseners are given a bad name by so many of the sub-par American light lagers. Get a fresh pint of PU to find out what a real pilsener should taste like.

Great pilsener with lovely hops flavour.

Dry bitter finish. Having one just makes you thirstier. Isn't that the way it should be?

Judging by some of the previous comments, I found a good bottle. Beautiful clarity, nice aroma, good taste of hops.

Nice hop aroma, pours a golden yellow with a large white head. I must have gotten a good bottle, because this is a tastey pilsner. Slightly bitter hop aftertaste. Hopefully I can find this on tap somewhere to compare it to the bottles. Definitely a worldclass beer.

Nice aroma, crisp taste, lots of bitterness present, but not too much bitterness. Has that canned European pilsener taste, but not as overpowering as the German counterparts. I like some other pilseners better, but this one is not bad.

I keep hearing rumors about "oh, it’s not the beer it once was--no more wooden conditioning casks, don’t you know." I’ve probably had about 500 samples of this one, and they varied widely. The best (in a Vienna movie theater) showed off an incredibly integrated hop and malt flavors, with a certain flintiness that was simply incredible. At worst, it tasted like hopped water or diacetyl nastiness. Tasted at the Czech embassy recently, I found it to have wonderful malt and hops, vying for prominence and ending in a nice dry hop finish. Goes well with absinthe.

The original. Enough said.