Staropramen Breweries
Commercial Brewery
in Praha 5,
Prague,
Prague,
Czechia 🇨🇿
Owned by
Molson Coors
Associated with 3 Venues
Established in 1869
Contact
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
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
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Comes as "Branik Lagerbier". Clear, deep golden with a dense, white head leaving laces. Sweetish, malty nose. Medium body, lightly sweet, malty accents. Lightly bready and cardboardish with a flowery touch. The finish is dry. 270907
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2007
at 14:57
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Clear, pilsener golden with a white head. Malty nose. Light and watery body, unclean notes of malt and dish water. The finish is dry. 180907
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2007
at 14:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottled. A golden beer with a thick off-white head. The aroma is sweet malty with a light note of bread. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of straw and bread as well as light notes of caramel. The body is thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2007
at 02:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at O’learys Sports Bar ... Airside Arlands T5 ... Red/Brown ... loads of malts some ovaltine ... bit cold ... no suprise ... smokey rich fruity malt ... some coffee bitterness ... soft tasty rich roast malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2007
at 05:44
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can. golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit and malt. Flavour is sweet, fruit, malt. An average pilsner
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2007
at 00:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours yellow with a white head. Thin, slight grassy aroma. Slight watery cornish flavour, vague bitterness. Certainly doesn’t gain from being watered down.4-2-3-2-7=1.8
33 cL bottle. Pours clear yellow and with a white lacing head. Grassy aroma. Flavour is cardboardish to grassy. Finish is dry bitter. Solid 5-3-5-3-11=2.7
33 cL bottle. Pours clear yellow and with a white lacing head. Grassy aroma. Flavour is cardboardish to grassy. Finish is dry bitter. Solid 5-3-5-3-11=2.7
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2007
at 13:36
2.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Light blond color. Light common aroma, with a touch of rosemary or oregano (I don’t like to drink my pizza). Watery mouthfeel, light but bad flavor, some metallic bitterness. Such a failure!
Tried
on 18 Sep 2007
at 11:23
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Big head. Normal orangish color. This is pretty much a standard lager with nothing at all special about it. Slightly bitter sweet and low on alcohol, so there are more alcoholic things that you can buy for the same price, which taste equally bad as this little beer. Probably only sold in Ireland.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2007
at 19:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Unfortunately 0,5 l can only. Oh I love those light Czech Pilseners! This "desitka" is really one of their greatest beers I have tried. Pale yellow body with normal foam. Light aroma and flavor, but nothing very special like it’s finish. Really nice.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2007
at 11:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Yellow with a big white head, and even a hint of lace. Somewhat weak aroma compared to other Bohemians, slightly floral with some herbs. Malty and dry but lacking in hops compared to the masters Budvar and Urquell.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2007
at 14:37