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 - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
One of the oddest ratings I scored ever. Had it draught at a party at my university’s student club. They usually serve just Pilsner Urquell draught, but they also had this on yesterday. Poured a nice dark (almost black) red colour, with a thick, creamy medium sized beige head that went away slowly. The aroma was pleasant, a sweetish, malty nose with a few hints of hops. The taste was quite one dimensional, but that one dimension was damn pleasant. A soft, sweet malty taste, caramel, hints of hops (Saaz I reckon). Sweetish aftertaste. A lovely light dunkel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draught, beautifull dark colour but not to opaque, just the right amount of sweetness. complex flavours of chocolate. smooth. long aftertaste. wonderfull brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Creamy white excellent fully lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate hopy surprisingly fruity aroma. Light bitter/sweet flavor, moderate bitter finish. Average duration. Oily palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Re-rate 1/16/08: Bottle. Dark reddish brown with a medium, quickly disappearing, off-white head. Malty aroma with toasted bread and hints of milk chocolate. Sweet toasted malt flavor with caramel, light hoppy bitterness in the finish. A bit watery. OK, but definitely lacks in character and not as good as I remembered it. 6/3/5/2/11=2.7
Bottle. Dark brown with a pretty big beige head. Lightly roasted malt and some caramel in the nose. Flavor is nice sweet malt which finishes with a bit of hop bitterness. A light to medium body. A nice dunkel. 6/4/6/3/13=3.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can. Pours a pale golden color with a big longlasting white head. Sweet malty grainy aroma with some hints of hops. Sweet malty grainy and slightly grassy flavor. Thick mouthfeel with a sweet malty finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Pours a pale golden color with a longlasting white head. Fruity and malty aroma with some bready and grainy hints. Smooth sweet malty flavor with some grainy hints. Malty finish with a long medium bitter aftertaste.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
A nother great Czech beer yellow with small head tast is malty and easy to drink.Dry finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Small head with medium duration. Color is malty with a little hops. Taste is malt and hops. Semi oily palate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle: Reddish-amber coloured, creamy tanned head, slowly diminishing to a small stable foamy layer; sweet-malty, toasted-malty nose; sweet-caramelly flavour, light bodied, soft MF; toasted, caramelly finish with a small chocolatey bitterness in the end. Hearty, easily drinkable Dunkel, a bit on the sweet side....
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Nice dark beer. Sweet flavour coming from the beer rather than from the alcohol. Really creamy and all, but seriously lacking any semblence of alcohol. For some reason, beers with not enough alcohol annoy me a little, I think I kind of like the taste. Tastes really good when made a black and tan with Pilsner Urquell.