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Brewed by Pivovar Jihlava (Pivovary Lobkowicz)
Style: Czech Pilsner/Světlý
Jihlava, Czech Republic

Serve in Dimpled mug, Flute, Footed Pilsner

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Bottle 50cl.
Clear light to medium yellow orange color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, butter, toffee notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090404]

Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel as well as lighter notes of hops, leading to a lightly bitter finish.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and yellow with small white head. Mild spiced and slight roasted aroma. Malty flavoured, light caramelish. Light roasted. Bitter and grassy finish.

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of MiP. Clear yellow with a small white head. Sweetish malty nose. Medium body, very sweet malts and a little caramel. Hardly any bitterness. 040409

Bottle, 5.0%. Weak grainy aroma. Clear golden colour, very small white head. The flavour is quite sweet, actually almost sugary. High bitterness, rather rough. I wonder why it is so sweet.

Sweet and a little sandy. But refreshing. Nice foam and not annoying.

Średnie piwo jak na czeski Pilsner. Produkowany w Ostravie na zlecenie sieci polskich supermarketów. Piana nawet spora lecz szybko ustępuje. Wysokie nasycenie piwa i szybko znikająca piana powoduje że piwo szybko traci świeżość smaku

Well, you have to give plus points for appearance and palate; this is totally inviting! The head is dense, only slightly frothy, and stays. The color is a deeper gold, very nice. Aroma is fields, hay, a little manure, a little DMS, skunk. Weird. Flavor is lightly-to-moderately bitter, white bread elements, a little chemically. I can’t tell how good this is, as I served myself waaay too cold. Let’s see what happens but here is an initial rating.

50cl bottle. Golden colour with a nice formation of white head, medium lasting. Aroma is herbal, grassy, cerealish and malty. Flavour is moderate malty, with notes of cereal, medium bittery and some bready notes. Carbonation is medium. Body is medium.

No 461
Rated: 15.07.2008
Can, 500 ml
Appearance: Pours deep and essential assertive golden shiny body colour with perfectly clear texture, carbonation of the body is very mild and gentle, head is initially rather small and very slowly decreasing to a bit smaller but firm and lasting, white in colour, frothy in texture.
Aroma: Some gentle notes of hops with herbal accents, flat maltyness of body is present underneath from the body deepness, quite clean and very faint non - intensive and natural aroma of a good quality Pilsener. A bit milky or creamy. Alcohol is quite hidden.
Flavour: Front is with an influence of alcohol that seems for me a bit too strong as for Bohemian Pilsener, grainy - malty taste dominates over the hoppyness, slightly oily and alcoholic - malty oriented. Finish duration is short. Finish is strong and alcoholic, far too much as for only 5% abv. ’Brewer 7% abv’ is far less alcoholic than that one, I was expecting something better from Czech brewing traditions. It tastes like mass Euro Strong Lager not like a Bohemian Pilsener.
Palate: Body is medium, texture is almost oily, carbonation on palate is soft, finish feel is nasty with unpleasant impression in your mouth, neutral and kind of sour, beer becomes heavy alcoholic and taste like Malt Liquor at finish, reminding a poor plonk. Isn’t it a Malt Liquor? C’mon! Don’t buy it! Nasty!