Pivovar Velké Popovice (Kozel)
Commercial Brewery
in Velké Popovice,
Central Bohemian Region,
Czechia 🇨🇿
Owned by
Asahi Breweries
Associated Venue: Velkopopovická Kozlovna
Established in 1874
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at Zythos Restaurant in Athens. Very dark red color with a firm rich head. Malty flavor andaroma with hints of coffee , caramel. Medium bitter finish. Very nice and drinkable despite being that light !
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0.5 l can Doggythedog shared with me, thanks! It poured golden body with medium sized head. Weaker aroma, malty honey and flowery, quite boring, of a typical mass produced beer. Flavor was a bit light but relatively well rounded with malty sweetness and much smaller amount of some herbal hops. It had sweetish finish as well, with that bitterness remaining to its very end. Not quite good beer for Czech standards, but also it was not bad.
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0.5l can courtesy of a friend who brought it from Prague (thanks Mislav!). Poured a fine golden colour with some lazy carbonation and a medium sized white head. Malty, honeyish nose with a touch of veggies. The taste isn’t all that special but it’s nice ’nuff. Sweetish maltiness, a bit bready, dominates the taste, with some low, but chewy hoppiness (veggy/herbal). A fine, balanced pils that I kinda liked but that is nowhere near the best that the Czech Republic offers.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. A clear, golden beer with a medium sized off-white head. Malty sweet nose with some fruityness and a touch of cooked vegetables. Fruity-sweet and matly flavor with some cooked vegetalbes. Decent bitterness too, but could use more. Medium body. Fruity and bitter finish. A decent beer, but far from impressing. (081022)
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50cl bottle at home. Clear yellow, fine white head. aroma of slight banana, alc,acrohops, flavor is sweet and a little malty, faint tones of banana or other sweet fruits or sugar. bitterness balances sweetness well.
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Golden bronze in color with a fine head. Doughy malts, light caramel malt, as well as a bit of hops in the nose. Flavor is mroe caramel malts with nice biscuit as well. Light hops that I wish were a little more intense. Decent and enjoyable. (Draught at Pivovar Yokohama)
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Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is sweet, fruit, malt, hop. Flavour is sweet, malt, hop, apple. OK beer.
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Bottle. Golden, low head and carbonation. Sweet malt nose. Somewhat boozy mal base, light minerals, light on the hops. Sweet almost sugary aftertaste. Medium body, mellow, light sparkly mouthfeel. Not so great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap in Prague. Dark brown colour, beige head. Aroma of moccha, malts, caramel. Flavour is sweet, malty, caramel, moccha/coffee. Rather fullbodied for such a light beer, but a bit too sweet for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottled. Dark brown, rich firm head. Aroma of coffee and caramel. Sweet and medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Caramelly salty finish.