Subsidiaries
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A pilsener as good as pilseners get. Rerate: Had it from can this time, still the benchmark of a good pilsener. Only 4,4% now, but I remember (I think!) that the alcohol content was about 5,2% when I first had it (in Germany) many years ago?!
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2002
at 14:07
1.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Quote from my fiancee: Does 'crappy' have one or 2 p's? That says it all. I think I had a bottle that was exposed to the light too long because the skunk smell was literally unbearable. Whatever positives in the flavor were drowned out by the horrid stench. I will have to try this one again sometime...
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2002
at 16:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Citrussy saaz aroma. Golden, low carbonation and head, some residue floating. Light malt base. Hops hide well, slight bandaid. Bready aftertaste, light hop dryness. Even in Europe the taste seems to vary considerably
Tried
on 04 Apr 2002
at 10:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle
Slight toasted aroma. Dark golden, low head. A bit dusty but nice balance. Sparkly mouthfeel.
Slight toasted aroma. Dark golden, low head. A bit dusty but nice balance. Sparkly mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2002
at 09:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden coloured. Fresh from tap the aromatic, oily saaz aroma is very evident. It is rather dry, medium bodied and has a great deal of bitterness. One of the best megabrewed beers around.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2002
at 11:08
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pale, relatively light bodied, rather bitter. Not one of the better Czechish pilseners,
Tried
on 26 Jan 2002
at 18:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pale orange coloured cloudy and lively. Nice and tart with banana aroma. A good and true-to-style hefeweizen.
Tried
on 26 Jan 2002
at 17:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Ok, so it's very seldom fresh at all in North America. I just remember a few years ago in Halifax when I had some straight off the boat. That's where these high marks come from. When fresh, this is a first-rate pilsner. When not fresh, well, it's like any other beer that isn't fresh. Usually on this side of the ocean you'll want to get it on tap or from the can, to avoid skunkage.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Oct 2001
at 11:36
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Deep gold; much maltier than Urquell, solid but unspectacular...............
Tried
on 03 May 2001
at 14:27
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
I rated this a 3.6 in June 2000, original rating text below. I've had it a fair bit over the years and never thought about re-rating it. But now that it's in brown bottles, and I just bought a fresh sixer of it, I was struck by just how great this beer really is, and so I thought I'd look up my old rating, and for sure that 3.6 is too low. I'm fairly sure that was the phase many beer geeks go through of really only giving high rates to the high grav ales. Anyway, this is just damn near perfect. Big grassy somewhat catty hop aromatics, a good solid whack of bracing bitterness at the finish, all balanced by clean light bready maltiness. It's so good. original: Ideal version of the style. Clean and crisp, with enough body to really taste it. The pils hoppiness is very apparent. The golden color is pleasing to the eye and beats the crap out of looking at most other pilsners out there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2000
at 19:45