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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5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Beutiful red-brown beer with a small head. It has a nice aroma of a good malt blend, sweet with hints of liqurice. The taste contains no sweetness but a very dry hoppy bitterness - for the bitternes level not a suiting hop for my taste. It too contains hints of smoked malt - a little watery in the middle. Not a beer I''ll have again.
Tried on 03 Dec 2002 at 15:21

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Beautiful ruby red colour. Firm head, nice lacing. Creamy toffee aroma with a hint of chocolate. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness, roasted chocolate and there''s also some violet flavour to be found. A bit thin and watery though.
Tried on 30 Nov 2002 at 07:18

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Damn, if Staropramen is Interbrew, why can't I get it here? I had this at the White Horse, London...fiery amber; firm body, toasty; subtle hint of embers - similar to what you'd find in a wood-oven pizza; gets earthy towards the finish.
Tried from Can on 24 Aug 2002 at 17:39

4.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Decent pilsener. Happily it doesn't smell as bad as German pilseners do.....
Tried on 23 Jul 2002 at 08:33

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
this had a nice flowery hoppy taste. decent pils. not bad not great, the usual,better stuff out there.
Tried on 09 Jul 2002 at 13:08

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Canned:
Pours deep golden with a fluffy head. Sweet and malty aroma with notes of green apples. Flavour is sweet and malty with an almost sugary finish.
Tried from Can on 02 Jun 2002 at 10:48

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Had my first sample today - this is definitely going to be one of my favourite pilseners in the future (whenever I can afford it, or get it abroad). I guess the Czechs won't call it a pilsener as it's not being brewed in Plzen, but to me it's a pils good enough. Good lasting head, delicious Saaz aroma, pleasant flavour, very well balanced, better aftertaste than most pilseners.
Tried from Can on 16 Apr 2002 at 07:31

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Amber coloured. Grassy, citric aroma. Rather dry, medium bodied, quite bitter. An execellent fresh tasting polotmavý.
Tried on 07 Apr 2002 at 12:50

6.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 9 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 5
A flat looking beer with a strong aroma. The beer is pleasant on the palate but lacks depth of taste.
Tried on 13 Mar 2002 at 17:24

1.1/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 1 Flavor 1 Texture 2 Overall 0.5
Soapy, flat, dead taste. No body, no flavour. Bad idea executed poorly....
Tried on 23 Jan 2002 at 07:49