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 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can. Clear golden with a nice medium long-lasting white head. Aroma is rather light with hops and a bit of malt. Flavor is sweetish malt with some metal. A soft bitter finish. A rather watery mouthfeel. An OK Pilsner, nothing more.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2007
at 15:51
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can. Dark golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, caramel. Flavour is fruit, malt, hop, caramel. Ok
Tried
from Can
on 09 Apr 2007
at 22:47
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Can. Clear, golden with a small white head. Very weak, but not bad aroma with some caramel. Same goes for the flavor. Soft on the palate, medium body. Too weak, but at least not bad. (070331)
Tried
from Can
on 08 Apr 2007
at 06:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Brown color with a medium beige head. Aroma is malty, with some toastiness and a bit of caramel. Sweet malty flavor with a toasty and slightly bitter finish. Medium-bodied with an oily texture. An OK dunkel, but nothing unusual.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2007
at 14:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught. Small head, copper colour, nice flavour of coffee but not to dominant. medium body, very smooth. Nice aftertaste though not to long, withnotes of chocolate. Great session beer, very easy to drink.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2007
at 07:34
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Draught: 6-3-5-2-11=2.7 Bottle 5-3-5-2-9=2.4. Creamy white fair mostly lasting head. Amber colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Week but ok flavor. Watery palate. Too carbonated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2007
at 06:50
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Poured golden, nice white head. Solid flavor, OK body. In terms of Czech Pils, this one is somewhere short of Urquell for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2007
at 21:03
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Draught at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm. Clear dark ruby, no head. Aroma of sweet roasty malt. Light bodied and sweet with clean mouthfeel. Some dough and toastiness, but rather thin and industrial. Low bitterness.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2007
at 03:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Alc. 5.0%. Clear light amber / orange color with a small to average fizzy fair lacing white head. Aroma is modereate malty, bread, toasted, light hoppy. Flaovr is moderate sweet and bitter with a short to average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2007
at 11:38
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a longlasting white head. Sweet malty and grassy aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweet malty flavor with some grassy and earthy hoppy hints. Sweet malty finish with a medium bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2007
at 15:38