Pivovar Raven

Microbrewery in Plzeň, Plzeň Region, Czechia 🇨🇿
Associated with 2 Venues

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Mozartova 132/1, Plzeň 1, Plzeň, 323 00, Czechia

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7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Tap at Dno Pytle. Deep clear golden pour, white head. Nose is sweet honey and light booze and some citric and resinous bitterness. Taste is rather bitter hoppy, citric and piney again with a sweet touch in the finish to sooth the hopbite. Might be a tad one dimensional, but very well made and hence highly enjoyable.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:22

7.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6
Tap at Dno Pytle at the Raven TTO. Deep copper pour, off-white head. Nose is bitter, resinous hops and sweet booze, dried fruits, some malty hint. Taste is intense sweetness balanced out with a big hoppy kick. This one os truly heavy, and I mean REALLY heavy and thicc. Interesting brew, but might be just too much for me.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:22

7.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Cask at Dno Pytle (well, kinda). Jet black pour, beige head. Nose is roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate and a touch of ash. Taste is lightly sweet boozy and chocolate, with a touch of bitterness from the coffee and roasted malts. The balance is alright, it’s the body what it lacks really. Feels way too thin, almost watery altogether.
Tried from Cask on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:22

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 10 Overall 5.5
Bottle at home. Pours, nah, gushes out of the bottle, some secondary must have taken place in the bottle. Not particularly inviting murky purple with floatsies as well. Nose is some coffee, some raspberry - quite messy altogether, and nothing really stands out. Taste is surprisingly sour, there's a hint of coffee as well, but pretty restrained and the fruit is close to nowhere to be found. Closes with an abrupt finish in which there's a touch of raspberry at last, some sourness, a hint of coffee. I loved the basic coffe sour of theirs, this one's not quite there but I reckon it's more like a faulty bottle than a bad beer. Anyway it's a pity, I was really looking forward to this.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:22

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Bottle at home from Base Camp. Pours black with beige head. Nose is a nice combination of dark chocolate, light cocoa powder, faint hoppy bitterness and chili. Taste is dark chocolate, light coffee, pine, cocoa powder and chili upfront - not yet hot tho. Then some bitterness joins the party and also the spicyness of the chili appears - borderline too hot for me, but nothing too bad. Keep in mind that I'm not particularly fond of hot food. Really well balanced and nicely rounded.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:21

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Tap at KEG. Burgundy pour with a white head. Nose is jammy, yoghurty berries. Taste is jammy, tart and sweet berries, some yoghurt again, warmingly sweet rather than sour. Closes with a fruity finish, has a huge body and soft carbonation but drinks incredibly, well below the ABV. It's surprisingly easy to drink yet not too thin for the ABV but other than this it was fairly... meh? Dunno, expected a lot more.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:19

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 5.5
Tap at Lya Cafe. Orangeish red pour eith thin head. It was served too cold but as it started to warm up it showed notes of sweet pumpkin and spices, mainly cloves. Not bad by far but not really for me.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:03

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 6
Tap at the LB fest, courtesy of Marko. Golden pour with a white head. Nose and taste are tropical fruits, light citrus zest, a touch of tea maybe? Moderately bitter, somewhat dry, quite easy to drink. Decent.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:56

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Tap at Salon Piva. Izgalmas gyumis sour, kiemelkedoen citrushangsulyos, jon a maracuja rendesen, meg nemi citrushej is. Nem mondanam meg, hogy safrany, de baromi jo a gyumolcs-fuszer osszhang, kellemes kis udito osszessegeben.
Tried from Draft on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:55

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 6
On tap @ Melypont Presszo. I only took numerical notes while having this one.
Tried from Draft on 04 Mar 2025 at 09:14