Staropramen Breweries

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

Established in 1869

Contact
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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5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
50 cL bottle, 4.1% as Branik Svetle. Pours clear and golden orange with a white head. Aroma is bitterhops and light sweet cornish note. Flavour is light cornish with a light bitterness. Smooth and light bitterness into the finish.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2008 at 17:37

3.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
500ml bottle from Tesco, Plzen. Gold, thin white head. Some cardboard on aroma. Some lemon on aroma. Poor in mouth, in fact one of the poorer lagers of this trip. thin metallic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2008 at 11:20

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
500ml bottle from Tesco, Plzen. Paleish gold with thin white head. NO great aroma. Again like a lot of these beers, it’s fine, no bad flavours, only a bit of cardboard. Thinner than some others in the mouth though. Some lemon hop on finish. It’s not bad, just a little uninteresting. OK lager.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2008 at 11:19

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
chiara buona schiuma piuttosto persistente aromi delicati di malto e erbacei in bocca malto e luppolo non molto amara ma buona presenza di luppolo non marcata
Tried on 09 Jul 2008 at 10:31

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottled. Deep ruby red colour, mediumsized brown creamy head. Aroma is roasted malts, caramel, some toasted notes as well as notes of black, mild coffee. Flavour is roasted malts, coffee, some balancing up flowery and grassy hops. Aftertaste is toasted and quite much coffee.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2008 at 05:07

3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is metallic, hoppy and also has some grains in it. Flavour is hops, grains and rubber. Very cheap feeling to it.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2008 at 04:47

3.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Bottled. Yellowish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is cardboard, hay and some mild paperyness. Flavour is also cardboard, grass and hay. Very mouthdrying brew.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2008 at 04:26

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Golden with a small white head. Grain and hay aroma with a metallic twang. Thin and metallic sweet malt flavour.
Tried on 08 Jul 2008 at 15:58

4.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
50 cL bottle. Pours clear golden orange witha slowly collapsing yellowish head. Dry cardboardish aroma. Flavour is dry malty with a light cardboard note but not as bad as others. Ends mild dry breadish.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2008 at 01:00

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Yellow with a lasting white head. The aroma has vegetable and other sulphur notes, a metallic edge adn some malt. Sweet an thin drainpour flavour.
Tried on 06 Jul 2008 at 11:44