Staropramen Breweries

Commercial Brewery in Praha 5, Prague, Prague, Czechia 🇨🇿
Owned by Molson Coors
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1869

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Nádražní 43/84, Praha 5 - Smíchov, Prague, 150 00, Czechia
Description
Staropramen Brewery's history begins in 1869 when a corporation was formed on September 6, 1869, The brewery building was completed and beer first brewed in 1871 and the brand name Staropramen, literally meaning “old spring”, was registered in 1911.

Extensive modernization took place from 1933 to 1937 lead by masterbrewer Josef Paspa. The fermentation rooms with cooling vessels and large wooden barrels were replaced with modern steel tanks. In 1933, thanks to its volume of 800,000 hl of produced beer, the brewery became the biggest brewery in Czechoslovakia.

With socialism after the Second World War Staropramen was nationalised. After socialism ended in 1989, the brewery, along with the Braník and Měšťan breweries, became in 1992 part of the Prague Breweries group (Pražské Pivovary), which by 1996 came under control of the Bass company. Bass brought Ostravar into the group in 1997, then in 2000 sold its brewing operations to Interbrew, later AB InBev. In April 2012, Staropramen was bought by Molson Coors

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5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Can @ Billa. Prague. Pours clear golden with a off white creamy head. Very grainy with a bit of hops. Medium bodied. Drinkable
Tried from Can on 30 Nov 2009 at 08:59

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle @ Billa, Prague. Pours clear yellow with a creamy lasting white foam. Nose is grain and perfumy hops. Taste is buiscuit and grain. Medium to watery body. Can taste a bit of alcohol. Ends dry.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Nov 2009 at 08:20

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
50cl bottle @ Billa. Pours clear golden with a creamy white foam and lacings. Sweet malty and grassy nose. Taste is a bit dusty with buiscuit and grassy notes. Medium bodied. Ok
Earlier Rating: 12/19/2006 Total Score: 2.8
Clear see through blonde with white head. Easy malty and moderate hoppy flavour. Very pleasant. Lively carbonation. Taste of the regular Czeck hops. Easy drinkable and OK lager!
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2009 at 07:55

4.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
50 cl. Bottle @ Billa, Prague. Pours clear pale piss yellow with a off white head. Grainy and vaguely metallic aroma. Dry grassy and rather harsh end. Medium to watery body.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2009 at 03:27

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Fizzy head, amber coloured, watery textured brew, which has glad caramelic aroma. This is a bit raw for me: as i taste it rasps my tounge and my palate. Then the flavour is sweet firstly then it turns to bitter as you swallow it. Lightly disturbing cardboard feel in the finish. Revisited, Praha 2016: sima alapsör, kis karamell beütéssel. Ivósörnek előszeretettel alkalmazható.
Tried on 20 Nov 2009 at 11:09

5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
31/10 A 0.5 l bottle Doggythedog brought from Prague, thanks for sharing this just retired beer! Well, it poured dark brown, almost black body with medium sized brown cascading head. Weak coffee aroma, dry. Quite good coffee malt profile in the flavor, but rather typical for any dry stout, watery, ironically, as every "dry stout" is. Shorter, coffee dry finish with maybe some notes of herbal hops here, but killed with overwhelming coffee. Not my style, but Murphy’s was better as I recall, no matter it beats typical Guinness.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2009 at 04:09

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
330ml Bottle - Dark brown with red tinges and a foamy head. Fruity and slightly metallic aroma. Fruity and malty taste with raisins and caramel along with some faint roasted notes.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Nov 2009 at 12:25

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
(Draught at Hard Rock Café, Stockholm, 31 Oct 2009) Brownish amber colour with a frothy, off-white head. Malty nose with notes of dark bread, wort, dried fruit and toffee. Malty taste with notes of dried fruit, bread, caramel and a slightly spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, balanced sweetness. Tasty and decent beer, but hardly exciting.
Tried on 01 Nov 2009 at 06:57

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Found what are possibly some of the last bottles in existence in a liquor store in Prague’s center, not far from U Medvidku. Shared with heavy Black (extremely dark red really) body. Small beige thick head. Dry malty nose, grainy roasty maltiness, very light dried figs. Light yoghurty malty taste, relatively smooth. A bit understated but noticable and slightly persistant hoppy, herbal bitterness in the finish. Very drinkable and beats pretty much all Irish dry stouts. Completely atypical for a Czech beerStaropramen, you suck for retiring this. I do hope they return this now that they’re rid of InBev but fat chance of that happening.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:27

5.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Bottle 20091107 - much softer flavor then the can Can suprtmarket in Sweden, poored golden with medium non lasting head, hoppy malty cararcter, like a international lager but with a bit better quality feeling!
Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2009 at 10:16