Pivovar Velké Popovice (Kozel)

Commercial Brewery in Velké Popovice, Central Bohemian Region, Czechia 🇨🇿
Owned by Asahi Breweries
Associated Venue: Velkopopovická Kozlovna

Established in 1874

Contact
Ringhofferova 1, Velké Popovice, 251 69, Czechia
Description
The brewery was established by baron František Ringhoffer in 1874. Since the very beginning the brewery has always had a live mascot, a goat behind its fence. The current goat is named Olda and he is actually on the brewery’s employee list.

In March 1999, the merger of Plzeňský Prazdroj, as with Pivovar Radegast, as the former majority owner of the Velké Popovice brewery, took place. Since 2016 it is part of the Asahi Group.

Velkopopovicky Kozel is the most successful Czech export beer according to the sales and is sold in more than 50 European countries and beyond.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Deep golden colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, some mild earthy tones. Flavour is wooden, some floral, earthy and mild herbal tones with some slight biscuity tones to it.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2025 at 20:10


6

Back in the land of potato salad and side pulls 🇨🇿

Tried on 29 May 2025 at 22:21



5.3
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

Tried from Can from Lidl (Poland) on 23 May 2025 at 14:37


5.5

Half a litre of draft with a meal at Nel Forno restaurant in Brno. Not the best Czech pilsner.

Tried from Draft on 18 Apr 2025 at 20:00


7.9
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Rhine river trup 2025. Black in color with a small, tan head. Aroma is deep roasted grains. Taste is also deep roasted grains with hints of chocolate and coffee. Slight sweet finish.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2025 at 15:27


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

[As Premium Lager] 500mL can. Pours clear gold with a white head. Herbal grass and biscuit malts on the nose. Flavour has soft biscuit malts, straw, a bit stale. Very weak carbonation. It's okay.

Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2025 at 23:51


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can. Nose is mash tun, malt, bread, brown sugar. Taste is dough, brown bread, malt lots of malt, brown sugar, more malt.

It's malt. Malt malt malt.

Tried on 11 Apr 2025 at 18:51


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5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

4/4/2025. Bottle shared at fonefan tasting.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2025 at 19:26


4.1
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

0,5 can. 11-es Kozel, let's see if it's better than the one available here. The can is nice, the beer is pale gold, but the foam is pleasant, snow-white, quite dense. Aroma: normal, higher-quality industrial lager aroma, a little hoppy, with normal pure malt. Unfortunately, it had a very watery effect, carbonation is medium, rather weak. Sour, industrial dozen-beer flavor, definitely not a normal Czech pilsner level, this is below it.. Bitterness: more metallic than hoppy, but it's there. Drinkable, but I wouldn't buy a carton of this in the summer...
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Kozel, lássuk jobb-e a nálunk kaphatónál. A doboz szép, a sör halvány arany, a habja viszont tetszetős, hófehér, elég tömör. Aroma: normális minőségibb ipari lager illat, kis komlósság, normális tiszta malátával. Nagyon vizes hatású volt sajnos, szénsav közepes, inkább gyenge. Savanykás, nagyüzemi tucat-sör íz, semmiképp nem egy normális cseh pilseni szint, ez alatta van.. Keserűség: inkább fémes, mint komlós, de azért van. Iható, de nyáron nem ebből vennék egy kartonnal... A habja viszont tényleg szép volt, ami jó jel a főzésre és az összetevőkre gondolva...

Tried from Can on 30 Mar 2025 at 17:33