Westerham Brewery Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody

 

Westerham Brewery in Westerham, Kent, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Lager - Czech Pilsner / Světlý Regular
Score
6.12
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 25
Straw yellow lager (that means lagered or matured for 4 weeks) hopped with Czech grown Saaz or Zatec noble hops with a distinctive hop aroma and bitterness usually found in Bohemian pilsners. Brewed with the finest English lager malt and fermented with a lager yeast and then cold conditioned for 4 weeks. Pilsners are traditionally quite bitter and this version is no different.

Not for lager louts – its got too much flavour. It’s nothing like the Eurofizz brewed in chemical factories in the UK.
 

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5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

330ml bottle, online from Master of Malt, June 2016. Pours yellow golden with a white cap. Aroma: sweet malt, straw, light grassy. Taste: light to moderate sweet & light bitter, dry-ish, malty, earthy, hay, grassy bitterness, a little metallic. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Dull

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jul 2021 at 21:40


6

Bottle from The Crafty Barbers. Pours an almost clear golden colour with a smallish throthy white head. Aromas of cereals, hay, straw and small hints of honey and lemon. Taste has more of the same notes but also a nice citrus and grassy hop bitterness. Medium to full bodied with a smooth slightly oily mouthfeel, average carbonation. Big bitter citrus and grassy hop on the dry finish. Pleasantly surprised by this one. Nice enough beer.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2020 at 17:54


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at the Lock and Barrel, Bromley. Gold pour with a white head. Aromas of lemon sherbet, light malt. Flavours of lemon ice, malt, hops. Good stuff.

Tried on 09 Jun 2019 at 15:00


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Keg at Roost, Margate. Quite liked this place, which refers to itself as streetfood on sea; it does really good food in a friendly laid-back atmosphere. Just one beer on tap, but at least it's a local brew on rotation (often a Time & Tide seasonal). Unfortunately on my visit the beer was a lager. It was gold with a light prickly fizz and a white head. Light butter, with definite lager tendencies but a crisp lemon and grass finish that helped wash down a spicy but delicious chilli dog. I'm no fan of lagers, but when I'm forced to have them I prefer the Czech style. And this is not a bad example of the Czech style.

Tried from Draft on 21 Feb 2019 at 23:46


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

2/2/2019. Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Pours pale gold with a small off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt, flowers, light citrus and tropical fruit, grass and a hint of banana. Medium plus sweetness, light bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, average carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2019 at 19:58


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from AlesByMail. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are grass, straw, hops and malt. Nice bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jul 2018 at 11:57


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

330ml bottle. Gluten Free. Yellow golden colour, white foam head leaving lacing and aroma of sweetish malt, straw, grassy. Taste is sweet malty, earthy, with straw, hay and some grassy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, dry slightly metallic grassy bitter finish. Quite OK.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2018 at 17:58


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 330ml. @ The Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Westerham Bohemian Rhapsody ].Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, light grain. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, sweet malt, pale malt, grass. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170804] 6-3-6-3-12

Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2018 at 17:20


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Lahev (@The Bottle Shop, Bermondsey): Golden to deep golden, quickly collapsing loose white head; mild spicy - hopefully Saazy - hoppy nose with a bready-malty background; mild to moderate dryish bitter-sweet flavour, malty base hardly detectable, light bodied, at least soft; slightly lingering spicy-bitter finish, unfortunately only slightly balanced by some pale malt. Právý anglický Světlý Ĺežák? Spíše ne...

Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2017 at 16:14


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

33cl bottle at Chris & Ruth´s House. A clear pale golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of grainy malt, pale malt, dry mild hops. Taste of pale malt, grainy malt, mild spicy bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2017 at 15:55