2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle, 4.8%. A golden beer with a thin white head. Both the aroma and flavor are sweet with notes of straw and malt.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From Zly Casy. Pours clear and golden yellow with no head. Aroma is toasted malty and slight hoppy. Sweet, toasted malty and flavoured. Bitter and rather dry into the finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tapped. Golden colour with huge white foamy head. Strong malty nose with fruitish hints. Strong malty citric semi-bitter flavour. Bittersweet aftertaste. Mouthdrying. From the aroma I waited for a standard Czech beer, but the flavour was a nice surprise.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Canned, sold as as "Böhmisch Export 12" in Germany. Golden colour, creamy head. Light oily butterscotch aroma. Medium dry, clean hard mouthfeel, grassy bitter finish. Not more than decent.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle, 4.8%. Clear golden colour. Unstable, fizzy white head. Weak flavour, hint of malt and low bitterness.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draught, alc. 5,3%
I wonder if Premium and Export are different beers. I put this to Premium though in Finland this is called "Export". This one has higher ABV and 12 degrees plato.
Golden, good white head, lace. Honey sweetish hoppy nose - very Czech-like. Medium-bodied, sweet hoppy flavor. Clean, fair Czech fair session beer.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: JUL 9, 2008 A fabulous Czech beer - actually one of the best pilsners I’ve ever tasted. Full body even for such a beer, and with a lasting, hob-flavoured taste - brilliant.
7/4/8/4/17
New ratings from Zatec:
Bottle: Pours lightly pale golden with a small, creamy, white head. Low duration. Aroma is light hay and quite grainy and sweet. Fine mouthfeel, though a bit fizzy. Flavour is softly malty, some soapy character and good dry finish with grassy hops.
7/3/7/3/9 = 2.9
Tap: Better lacing, still rather fizzy, more subdued hoppiness. Better looks, slightly less taste.
7/4/6/3/9 = 2.9
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Golden with a small white head. Caramel, toffe and a hint of hops in the aroma. Sweetish caramel malty flavour with some hop flavour and a decent bitter finish. Very fizzy giving a tendency towards the metallic
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Golden coloured, thin white fluffy head, quickly diminishing; bready nose, traces of caramel, cookies, some resin; malt/bread accented brew with some vegetable(?) notes, short bitter, not very aromatic aftertaste, quite light bodied; not unpleasant, but pretty disappointing, because Zatec/Saaz is the hometown of great hops. These hops are nearly not detectable........
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
The Lure:
Creamy, corn-y malt sweetness is undermined by a slightly mineral tinge. A frothy head slowly diminishes to soon offer no protection from the growing vegetable weirdness.
The Festivities:
Raw sugar onto herbal and vegetal hop bitterness. Sadly, there isn’t much hop flavor to accompany the ending, and again a mineral character looms. Slender malt is felt but doesn’t give much flavor either. I admit that with a name like this, you expect a lot more Saaz development.
Transcendence:
I guess when you grow up in it, you get complacent.
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