Prva Makarska Pivovara
Microbrewery
in
Makarska,
Split-Dalmatia,
Croatia 🇭🇷
Associated Venue: Hops! Beer & Food Factory
Description
Microbrewery supplying the Hops! Beer & Food Factory.
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Bottle from CroCraft & More. Clear golden body, whiteish head. Floral, cookie dough aroma, bit herbal. Smooth light taste, bready maltiness, floral, bit cookie doughy taste, slightly peppery by the finish. I mean, this is a classic Dalmatian blond ale (hey, there are worse "styles") really, as it should be.
Tried
from Bottle
from
CroCraft & More
on 21 Dec 2025
at 17:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
0.33 l bottle thanks to Marko, shared with Ogi and him. Clear golden, small off-white head. Aroma is lightly hoppy, floral, elderflower, hints of citrus, black pepper and dust, also grain. Light body, creamy texture. Flavour is bready and lightly floral. Minimal bitterness, dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2025
at 17:34
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can from CroCraft, with Hrabren and Ogi. Very dark chestnut body, off-white head. Bajadera aroma, almond, vanilla, cocoa. Creamy, light cocoa, vanilla, light roasty taste, simple, ending a bit astringent. Okay really!
Tried
from Can
from
CroCraft & More
on 19 Dec 2025
at 22:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
0.5 l can thanks to Marko, shared with Ogi and him. Dark brown, small beige head. Aroma is chocolate, roasty, toast, coffee. Smooth, creamy, chocolate flavour, roasty with some ash and burnt toast notes. Cocoa in the finish. Soft texture, light body, moderate carbonation, dry.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2025
at 22:21
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Can from CroCraft & More. Lightly hazy golden body, off-white head. Odd almond-pineapple-white wine touch in the background of the sweetish aroma. Empty dry taste, vaguey fruity, some yellow fruit somewhere, ending mildly astringent. I mean, had worse German Pilsner attempts. Minerally. Average, but drinkable, unlike Biokovo Lager --- Beer aliased from original tick of Pils on 05 Jun 2021 at 19:10 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Tap at Hops!. Misty golden body, thick white head. Huge flowery aroma hops at first, really on point, dominating everything. Not really a pilsnerish taste though, though the soft flowery hops do show up again, albeit lighter. Light light grainy malty touches, very little bitterness, smooth and soft, only got a light fruity touch at a few moments that felt slightly out of place, but I wasn't sure if I was imagining it. In any case, a very good, classically well hopped lager, in the vein of some stabs at the style by much more prominent craft breweries (and better than some), big props for that.
Tried
from Can
from
CroCraft & More
on 19 Dec 2025
at 21:33
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 5
Overall 4.5
0.5 l can thanks to Marko, shared with Ogi and him. Clear golden, small off-white head. Aroma is moderately floral and lightly bready. Flavour is earthy, some cooked vegetable and some plastic. Moderate sweetness, light bitterness. Smooth, creamy, moderate carbonation, light body, dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2025
at 21:28
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4.5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Can from CroCraft & More. Clear shiny pale amber body, off-white head. Yeasty, bit vegetal aroma, almond?! Weird. Smooth, lean, dry taste, some caramelly maltiness, sure, some almonds, low to no hoppiness, astringent. This is... bad... empty, what little taste there is is questionable... if this is the same recipe as Biokovsko was, then they are failing the execution even worse than before... This is worse than Favorit is nowadays. FAVORIT! --- Beer aliased from original tick of Biokovsko on 05 Jun 2021 at 18:47 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Tap at Hops! Makarska. Hazy deep golden body, off white head. Grainy aroma, light herbal touches. Somewhat sweetish, simple taste, again grainy-toasty, some touches of herbal touch. Slightly fuller than your average lager but all in all, fine enough, clean, servicable lager.
Tried
from Can
from
CroCraft & More
on 19 Dec 2025
at 21:20
3.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 5
Overall 3
0.5 l can thanks to Marko, shared with Ogi and him. Clear golden, small off-white head. Aroma is bready and red apple. Flavour is ripe apple and some sour cabbage. Also hints of plastic. Smooth, light body, moderate carbonation, dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2025
at 21:20
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Hops! Beer & Food Factory, Friday 5th September 2025 after another walk from Camp Riviera Makarska. Pours yellow with a haze, large white head. Nose is a little polite but there's a light fruity edge and perhaps a little wheat. The taste is a bit more on the ball with banana and wheatiness, but best of all it's super refreshing and really hits the spot. Like this, only downside is that I do like a Hefeweisse in a Hefeweisse glass.
Tried
at
Hops! Beer & Food Factory
on 05 Sep 2025
at 11:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
On tap at Hops Beer & Food Factory, Makarska, Croatia, Thursday 4th September 2025 after a short walk from our campsite on the edge of town. Pours hazy yellow/gold, with a small/mid sized white head. Great aroma, very tropical with nods to mango and perhaps there's a little pineapple also. More tropical with touches of citrus and less resinous than I'd have hoped for the style. Surprisingly lean and easy drinking for the abv, cannot believe it's 6.5%, it's very easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
at
Hops! Beer & Food Factory
on 04 Sep 2025
at 15:34