Bièropholie Na Zdravi!

Formerly brewed at Bièropholie
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
, Canada

Not usually my favorite type of beer but it is well balanced and corresponds to the style. All with whom I have drank it would move from MACRO brew to Micro Brew anyday. Only hard to get.

341 ml bottle. Clear, slightly oily and translucent gold....the head is that of the creamiest, fullest malted milk or vanilla soda ever, lasting absolutely forever and forming all sorts of odd little patterns...the lacing is beautiful and abstract...a gorgeous perfumy floral nose, fresh hay, lavender and honeysuckle entrances and enthralls, drawing me to deep meadows in the morning of the world...sweet honey on the tongue, hardy hops shine through on the back end, softness inspires somnolence, perhaps just a bit much for this hardy provincial style....easily the best Bohemian Pils I’ve had, confirmation that the brewer is entering the realms of the spectacular and inspired.

Green and yellow label, must be from an old batch, hazy yellow hue, with an explosion of foam at the opening of the bottle, i lost a third of the beer,with a frothy rocky head, leaving good laces, on the glass, piney, cedery,conifer notes, flowery hops, this beer has improved in a good way for me developing some orval characters, and yeasty and hoppy aromas follow through on a medium-bodied palate with a piney, cedery, conifery flavors, with a strong flowery hops character, leading towards an hoppy dry bitterness finish.

Bottle... This beer rocks!... Hazy, amber lager with a medium sized, fizzy, white head. Terrific, malty nose with strong notes of clover and orange blossom honey, bread and golden raisins. Malty, but well-balanced, perfectly bittered flavor. Medium-bodied and oily with lively carbonation. Lengthy, grassy, lightly bitter finish. Maybe the best pilsener I have tasted to date. World class stuff!

On draught at Mondial, 2005. Had this one quite a few times. Lightly hazy body is a brilliant copper-gold with some amber highlights. Thick, white, fluffy/creamy head is full and lasting providing sheets of lacing. Smells of dry, earthy/grassy hops. Farmy, leafy, lightly bitter as well. Creamy, honeyish malt backbone can be sensed in the nose and comes alive in the flavor. Some sweaty dough-like notes and creamy sugar notes do detract from the crisp hoppiness of the aroma, somewhat. Full bodied and wonderfully extracted malt. Tons of noble-hops character. Sweet honey dough, caramel suggestions and sweet biscuits and honey. Surprising amount of bitterness for using noble hops, with no citurs flavors, which is a great change of pace (not that there should be any real citrus notes). Crisp, bitting yeast on the end, highly refreshing and drinkable. Moderate carbonation and a great drinkability for how malty and hoppy it is. Been waiting for this one for a long time, and it did not disappoint.

Golden in colour, large rocky white head. Lots of hops in the aroma along with grass and bread. Flavour was incredibly smooth, lots of hops, zesty, very well balanced with the malt and bitter. Medium body, high carbonation. Finishes with a moderate bitterness and long. Absolutly amazing, this brewery can’t do anything wrong it seems.

poured a dark orangish gold color with a gigantic mountainous head...zesty hops alongside doughy malts make the aroma quite nice...doughy malt flavors with definite hop bitterness and a touch of alcohol. Some subtle sweet orange flavors too. Very full bodied for a pilsner...as mealish as a pilsner gets IMO, in fact, I am quite impressed with this brew. I wish all pilsners tasted like this.

1st Recipe: Deep golden colour with a thick frothy white head. Caramel, spicy, and floral aroma. Caramel, floral, light perfume flavours and a lightly spiced deep and building bitter finish. Light bodied but refreshing. Very tasty pilsner. Thanks tiggmtl. (7/3/7/4/15)

2nd Recipe: Hazy deep golden colour. A very thick frothy and rocky, almost meringue like white head with light brown patches. Later noticed some thick sediment** in the bottle that wasn’t there in the first batch. I must have lost my mind at this point, because the aroma was fruity and candyish in a way that I can only remember smelling before in Orval - is there Brett in this, or is that just the Saaz? Lightly fruity, then building to a big floral, perfumy, and dry hoppy bitter finish. Light bodied, creamy, dry, smooth, and refreshing mouthfeel. Very different from the first recipe, but still very good. Thanks tiggmtl. (9/4/7/4/16)
**Since tiggmtl has confirmed for me that this isn’t supposed to be bottle conditioned, I figured I’d throw this asterisk in. I don’t know if the sediment I found means an infection or not, but if it was infected it certainly didn’t detract from my enjoyment.