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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6.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

(Bottle 50 cl) Fully golden beer with a nice frothy head. A very pleasant pilsener with a limited bitterness and a light sweetness from the malts and lots of flavour. Actually I don’t realize until late, that this is a light lager. So far the best of it’s type.

Tried from Bottle on 18 May 2005 at 10:56


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Deep golden colour, minor white head. Malty nose with hints of caramel. Wellbalanced flavour of sweet malt, caramel and hops. Bitterish and dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2005 at 13:39


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Canned. Golden colour, small white head which disappears quickly. Aroma sweetish malt with hints of hops. Smooth wellbalanced taste of sweetish malt and some fruits in finish. Aftertaste is a bit more bitter than taste, but not much. Easy to drink, but not so special in any way.

Tried from Can on 02 Mar 2005 at 07:06


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Dark red colour with beige small head. Fresh sweetish malt aroma. Flavor is toasted malt with a bit bitterness, but still very refreshing. Very wellbalanced.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2005 at 10:20


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

Herlig mørk øl med flot aroma og flot vedvarende skum. Har et strejf af karamel, men er trodsalt lidt vandig

Tried on 17 Jan 2005 at 07:31


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

A clear dark orange beer with a huge white head. The aroma is of hops, grass, and straw. The flavor is very crisp and fresh with clean notes of malt and hops as well as notes of grass, leading to a dry bitter hoppy finish. Only drawback is that the body is a little thin. A nice Czech pilsener.

Tried on 29 Dec 2004 at 15:08


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can. Sweet malt aroma. Medium yellow color with little head. High carbonation - a very interesting sweet malt flavor - very well balanced - doesn’t have that sickly sweet flavor that’s more common with many beers. Hops slight at first taste and then more pronounced at end.

Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2004 at 12:30


8.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Suprisingly light malt aroma for a dark beer. Coffee brown color. Light sweet coffee malt flavor with not the strongest of palates. A very enjoyable dunkel.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Oct 2004 at 11:53


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottled (BB 02/2005)
Golden honey color with big white head and lots of lace. Metallic, fruity and slightly hoppy aroma. Medium malty body. Clean, balanced, fruity but not enough hops for this style, more like a premium lager.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2004 at 08:27


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Moderately malty, lightly hoppy aroma. Frothy, light brown head, mostly diminishing. Virtually no lace. Brown to black body. Lightly bitter initial flavour, no finish. Lightly bodied.

Tried on 28 Jul 2004 at 10:15