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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5.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Canned. Pale yellow, small head. Sweetish and very light bodied - bordering to becoming thin. Some grainy malt and a very careful amount of saaz hops. Medium bitterness. Well light, but works as a thirst quencher.
Tried from Can on 04 May 2007 at 01:22

3.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
Bottle (Tesco, Plzen): Golden coloured, lively carbonation, small, but firm whizte layer; shy, a bit perfumed grainy and hoppy nose, faint bitter flavour; watery body and watery bitter finish with a metallic tinge. Ooops, one of the worst czech beers....
Tried from Bottle on 03 May 2007 at 00:24

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
amber coloured, strong fruit nose, rounded fruit hop ith hint of lageryness and a little bitter
Tried on 01 May 2007 at 11:08

6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Dark golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, tea, malt. Flavour sweet, caramel, malt, tea. Ok beer.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2007 at 02:36

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottled. Golden to copper body with a white head. Malty nose with fruityness, dried fruits, tobacco and tea. Caramel, malt and some fruity hop in the flavor. Smooth, medium body, and a finish with tea, tobacco and some dried fruits. The initial flavor is a bit boring, else it is a nice one. (070404)
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2007 at 13:14

8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottled(500ml). -Pours a dark brown colour with nice pale brown cappuccino head and pleasant ice cream chocolate nose. The aroma of roasted barley malt and bitter chocolate with notes of coffee and caramel. Bitter coffee finish and aftertaste. Very smooth.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2007 at 05:04

4.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottled(500ml). -Pours a pale golden colour with small white head and bready nose. Lively carbonation. Fresh hoppy and weak malty aroma with notes of grain, corn and hay. Thin but refreshing.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2007 at 04:58

3.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Plastic brown bottle(1500ml). -golden coloured, big white head, lively carbonation, dusty nose. The aroma is weak hoppy and grainy with notes of cardboard. Moderate bitterness in the finish. 1.5 liter costs about 1€.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2007 at 04:40

5.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Can, 5.3%. Clear amber colour, nice stable creamy white head. Sweetish flavour, a bit maizy sourness.
Tried from Can on 13 Apr 2007 at 16:18

3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 2
Odd 1.5l bottle shared with and courtesy of ozujsko. It was surprised to find out that this wasn’t on the site... It poured a bit darker golden colour with a big fluffy white head that went away relatively fast. Oily, empty nose maybe a touch of dust and hops. The taste isn’t far off either... a weak note of... erm, banana? and salt, some background bitterness. Yup, even Czech Republic, where most good beers are cheap has to have the really dirt cheap and crappy beers... guess to remind the people just how good their regular beers are.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2007 at 11:37