5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Sweet grainy malt and hay aroma. Golden yellow color with moderate head. Sweet barley/corn malt flavor with a moderately bitter herbal hops finish. Okay - not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2011
at 02:05
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Sweet barley malt and hay aroma. Golden yellow color with small head. Sweet barley malt and moderate bitter herbal/hay hops flavor. Medium body. Okay but a bit too sweet for a Bohemian Pilsener.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2011
at 12:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Der Malzantrunk ist deutlich röstig und gleichzeitig süß. Trocken, dann röstiger, mittelintensiv und wenig süffig. Dazu in Teilen schokoladig, mit der Zeit intensiver, dadurch vollmundiger und besser. Die Süße ist zum Ende passend, sie wurde durch eine seichte Herbe dezimiert. Stimmiger Abgang mit deutlicheren Schokoladen- und Röstnoten. 10/9/10/9/7/9
Tried
on 02 Jun 2011
at 11:32
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Prune, chocolate malt and astringent alcohol aroma. Chestnut color with small head. Sweet raisin/prune malt and mild astringent/bitter alcohol flavor. Medium body. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2011
at 09:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Lightly smokey chocolate malt aroma. Dark brown color with small head. Sweet-smokey light chocolate-caramel malt flavor. Medium body. Finishes a bit watery. Overall a nice easy drinking beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2011
at 12:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours brown with thin fast dissipating white head. Aroma is old grass. Sweet malty flavour with a bit of toast. Malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2011
at 21:00
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
22oz. green bottle, $1.50 @ Binny’s. Labeled as "Bakalář 555 Double Bock." Like the Light beer, this pokes a little peak of foam out the neck of the bottle after opening. Slight bit of skunk, but also some dark, grainy malts. Pleasant russet brown in glass, very tiny particles of grain, few bubbles to support a thin wisp of foam. Taste carries those dark malts through, a little smoother and less grainy than yesterday’s Dark Lager. Not much alcohol, but still has some substance to it. Bit of dark fruit edge, but still somewhat grainy, and can let some adjunct on your tongue if you don’t watch out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2011
at 19:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half-liter bottle, $1.50 clearance at Binny’s. Immediately a better start that the lite beer from this brewer I had yesterday. No skunk under the cap. Instead,some straight-up dark roast malt nose, though with a little too much cereal. Taste shows some cereal grain, too, but it starts to remind me of the European take on dark lagers, the ones just thick enough to be called dunkels like this here. Certainly quite hearty for a standard strength beer. For fun I used a Trumer "bullet" pils glass, and got a big glass full of dark foam. Sticky dark beer with occasional notes of sour and plum. Definitely give this one a try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2011
at 20:49
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Half-liter bottle, $1.50 clearance @ Binny’s. Being as Cornfield has rated here and mentioned the same 4% abv as my label shows, which also has the same color scheme but only reads "Beer 1454," I’m sticking this one here. Green bottle has skunk in its neckspace, who know? Stiff peak of foam pokes out the top of the bottle as I let smell settle. Pours very pale and foamy, some bubble action, and particles in beer. Taste is insubstantial. Some malt sugar, but a lot of fusels at play here, despite a thin, watery mouthfeel. Must be a reason all these Rakovnik beers are on clearance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2011
at 20:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Small yellowish head over clear light-copper beer. Very good, noble hops’ nose, rounded with honeyish malts and hay. "Herb" taste, excellent balance with the malts setting in, followed by a long bitter (noble) hopsflavour, and more springblossomnectar in the background. Feels more carbonated than it looks, slight slickness, slightly more than light bodied. Definitely amongst the better Pilseners - many thanks to Peter V. (but that is not quite the same country, is it?
Tried
on 18 Feb 2011
at 09:42