Dreher Classic

Brewed by Dreher Sörgyár (SABMiller)
Style: Pilsener
Budapest, Hungary

Hungary’s Budweiser. From the bottle it was crisp and offered not much flavor, but it did the job as I wandered the streets of Budapest.

500ml green can airborne from Budapest, thanks to Frau Eva. Loose, white head on top of a brilliantly clear, golden body. Fading aroma of sweet citric fruits mixed with grain. Malty flavour with a bite of sour grain. Dry, papery note to the ending. Soft in the mouth. Medium to thin bodied. Nothing special (shared with Eva at home in Tromsø, 02.10.2009).

Bottle. Pours yellow and fizzy with a white head. Smells of apples, some spicy hints, peppery, grassy. Tastes light and crisp with some sweetness and a skunky finish.

No 788
Rated: 22.07.2009
Bottle green, 500 ml, rated in Bogacs, Hungary.
Appearance: Pours nice golden body, body is perfectly clear and moderately carbonated, head is initially small, quite frisky and fizzy to foamy, unfortunately leaving no lacing, non-impressive.
Aroma: Nice herbal, highly hoppy, very leavy hoppy and spicy nose, gentle malty background, nice oily malty-crispy touch, very typical aroma of Pilsener, simple, clean and decent.
Flavour: Very nice spicy, highly aromatic hoppy touch at front mixed with pure and fat maltybase especially reflected in grainy impression on palate, very nice long and dangling aftertaste of a good Pilsener with leavy-spicy hoppyness and crispy malty palate, nice and gentle alcoholic background when warmer makes the flavour even sharper and more positive, finish duration is medium, really pleasant bitterness.
Palate: Body is medium, texture is dry, carbonation on palate is medium, finish feel is moderately astringent, moderately alcoholic, leavy-spicy, very clean, in overall impression Dreher Classic is much better than commercial hungarian Steffl, representing a Bohemian Pilsener style.

draft in Budpest, Hungary. pours golden, white head. aroma of citronelle, lemon, with some citrus hops. taste, light fruits, light malty finish, some wheat, not overly bitter. Weak and boring.

Pale golden color with small bubbles and frothy white head. Light aroma of earthy yeast and some cardboard. Neutral corny, grainy flavor with some uninvited vegetables. Medium bitternes in the finish with some sweet malty tones. Typical hungarian boring stuff.

Bottle@Home. Citrus, malts and corn aroma. Pale yellow colour, white head, good lace. Light sweet, light bitter, floral, light malty. Light, refreshing, crisp. Not bad for a summer afternoon.