Šerák 11
Pivovar Holba in Hanušovice, Olomouc Region, Czechia 🇨🇿
Lager - Czech Pilsner / Světlý Regular|
Score
5.39
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The flagship of the Holba brand. A pale beer with a golden honey colour, a delicious slightly bitter hoppy taste and perfect sharpness.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bohemian Pilsener straight from Moravia, brewed since the late 19th century - the kind of local classic in Czech beer culture I should taste a lot more of. Thanks tderoeck for sharing! Thick and frothy, egg-white, moussey, shred-lacing head over a deep peachy-orangey blonde robe with some loose strings of sparkling running throughout. Aroma of bread crust, dried flowers, moist white pepper, rusk, dry cereals, wild grasses, minerals. Clean onset, crisp with fizzy carb (sharper than expected even for the style); smooth to almost thinly creamy cereally pale malt sweetishness of a pure and honest kind, all-malty of course, gradually bittered by grassy, somewhat weed-leafy hop bitterness, while the carbonation keeps adding a kind of minerality reminiscent of spring water from a well in the Moravian hills. As classic as it gets for a Czech Pilsener, perhaps less known than some of its congeners, but stylistically ticking all the boxes. No surprises here, just very solid, pure, straight to the point and clear as a mountain stream.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2026
at 01:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.5l can. Golden body with a white head. Aroma and taste of bready malts, grains, hay and some floral hops. OK pilsner.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2025
at 17:31
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Golden color, clear, bubbly head quickly fading. Flavor grainy, malty, syrup, bitter hop extract. Relatively thick body, ok taste between sugary sour and bitter, soft carbonation, short finish.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2025
at 12:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
On tap at Restaurant Grenzglashütte Bayerisch Eisenstein, Sunday 21st July 2025 in the company of Marko. Pours hazy mid yellow/gold, white head. Middling bitterness, pleasant bite, it's absolutely fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jul 2025
at 16:00
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
0.5 can bought at Különleges Sörök Boltja, Budapest. Golden colored, hoppy aroma with a bit sweetnes at finish. Decent lager.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:28
Tried
on 01 Mar 2025
at 12:07
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:15
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Can) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Malty nose with notes of crisp-bread, herbs, honey and citrus. Malty taste with bread, honey citrus, grass, hints of green apples and a gentle herbal bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with a slight sweetness. Basic, but crisp and clean. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Sep 2023
at 19:14
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Piana gęsta, barwa złota, klarowne. Wyraźny słodowy aromat, lekko ziołowy, chmiel. Dość łodygowa goryczka, zbyt długo zalega w gardle.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2023
at 18:18