Plzeň
Brouwerij 't IJ in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.58
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Plzeň goes to show that a beer doesn’t need a lot of alcohol to be special. With its fine, hoppy flavour, this 5% blond beer can certainly hold its own against the stronger beers. Brewed only from pale barley malt, this is a floral beer with delightful, hoppy aromas of hay and fresh grass. Deliciously dry, with a long-lasting aftertaste. We named the beer after the Czech town of Plzeň, from which Pilsner beers originate. Despite that, our Plzeň is not a Pilsner; it is a refreshing, bitter, top-fermented beer.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught at the brewery. Cloudy, glowing deep gold with a low, fine head. Fruity, with honey, apricot, saaz, citrus and grass. Sweet, fruity flavor with great hops. Like a light hoppy Belgian ale. Rich, thick, slightly heavy. Super hoppy.Great biscuity malt. Really tasty for 5%.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2010
at 08:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden with a huge white fluffy head. Dry aroma with plenty of brett, hops and hints of malt. Dry flavour with plenty of brett, grassy hops and malty hints. Finished dry and bitter.
Tried
on 01 May 2010
at 05:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at the brewpub. Hazy gold with white head. Light hop and significant barley aromas. Very clean and decently hoppy. Very pils.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2010
at 07:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at the IJ brouwerij proeflokaal, Amsterdam on 20th March 2010. Gold with white head. Bitter, dry and hoppy. Sightly weaker in flavour than on previous visits. Still refreshing and dry hoppy aftertaste on a fairly smooth to zingy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2010
at 17:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a spicy yeasty malty aroma with some weak grassy hints. Smooth malty yeasty bitter flavor. Has a spicy yeasty malty hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2009
at 14:13
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
25th May 2008. A sour blond beer. Bitterish caraway malt and a very dry finish. Not as bad as it sounds!
Tried
on 14 Nov 2009
at 02:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Had this on tap at the brewpub, Amsterdam, 27th Oct 2009 Pours crystal clear gold with a white head, thats also clingy and filmy. Nice aroma, though I can’t quite pinpoint it, butb there is a good tang from the pilsner malts and hops. A pilsner that I really like. A7 A5 F7 P4 Ov14 3.7
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2009
at 01:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
[9/10/09] Bottle at a friends’ house in Amsterdam. Aroma of green apples, hops, citrus, yeast, brett, a bit of hay notes - seems like it’s quite infected but not in such a bad way. Flavor starts with a bit of sweet malt, but very quickly turns sour-bitter with strong noble hops, citrus, grass, fruits and some infection sourness. Light-bodied. Still decent even though heading towards a train wreck. Not very Pils-like anyway.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2009
at 20:31
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Slight gushing upon opening, but primordially loosening huge chunks of UFO’s, resulting in towering, dense, off-white head and fully hazy yellow beer with an orange-lightgreen shine. Powerful wafts of noble hops emanating from the glass, grassy, leafy and spicy at the same time. Asparagus shoots. Bitter flavour, but completely different from the aromas - partly chemical/medicinal, parly spiced. Mural coat paint with horseradish powder. What hops did they use?? Weird flavours, ringing association bells I can’t place - but I guess the hops were at least partly oxidized. Medium bodied, beefed up by the yeast (and protein UFO’s?). Well-crafted, but the main taste comes as weird to me. Better than remembered, certainly - but then that dates from their first batch on draught. How time flies...
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2009
at 12:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml Bottle - Amber with a slight haze. Fruity and floral aroma with hints of dried apricot and syrup. Bitter and fruity taste, with apricot, grapefruit pineaapple. More like a blonde ale than a pilsner, but very nice all the same.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2009
at 16:06