Zubr Classic 3.5%

Brewed by Zubr Pivovar Prerov
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Prerov, Czech Republic

Serve in Flute, Footed Pilsner

26.08.2004. 0,5l Can. Ølet har et visst lettølpreg på grunn av lavt alkoholnivå. Ellers er ølet bittert med en varig ettersmak. Slett ikke verst til å være et 3,5%-øl.

Canned. Small, mostely lasting white head. Plain Pilsener-golden body. Sweetish, slightly perfumed malt aroma. Notes of artifical lemon and peppermint. A dryish, powdery malt flavor with some bready notes and touch of medicine. A good amount of bittering hops, quite stale actually. Skinny body. Short, dry malty and metallic fruity ending.

Can. No nose. Golden, low lacing head, a single champagne pearl-chain. Tastes like licking an anode, metallic, light chemical retronasal. Weakbreasted. Watery finish.

500 ml can. Pale golden colour. Medium-sized white head. Dry grainy malt aroma with a hint of minty hops. Light bodied. Dry malt flavours. Not too bitter, but there is quite a bit of bittering hops. They’re just not very sharp. Smooth carbonation and mellow malt flavours make the beer quite drinkable, without being particularly interesting in any way.

Canned(500ml). -Found somewhere in Plzen during RBESG2008.
Golden coloured, medium sized white head, corn nose. Weak malty and strong grainy (like n/a) taste with notes of cardboard and corn. Some metallic notes in the strong bitter finish.

Biggish very white shiny head. Yellow body. Grainy rubbery aroma with lemony notes. Dry lightly acidic grainy and rubbery taste with grassy peppery notes. Kind of thin body, but strangely that doesn’t matter. Dusty, mealy mouthfeel joins up nicely with the grassy peppery taste. Quite harmonic and clean. Hints of lemon. Fades into watery grassy nothing. For 3.5% this is quite good. (0.5l can, shop, Charlottenberg.)

0.5l can ogivlado got in Plzen and shared with me (thanks!)
Poured a slightly pale golden colour with a small quickly disappearing head. The nose is vaguely reminiscent of n/a’s... honey, weak corn flakes. The taste unfortunately isn’t far off. Watery, notes of honey, biting carbonation, no real hop bitterness, but it provides some herbal notes. Damn light and more akin to a low alcohol beer that a 3.5% beer has any right to be. Ok but boring.

[bottle] Grainy aroma with some weak noble hops. Anemic straw colour and clear. Very weak flavour, like a "small" beer but not astringent. Not offensive. Light body and watery with moderate carbonation.