Gambrinus Svetlý 10° (Desítka)

Brewed by Plzensky Prazdroj (SABMiller)
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Plzen, Czech Republic

looks godd, but that’s about it. Boring and watery mass-produced europivo, unfortunately to be found nearly everywhere in the Czech Republic.

On tap wherever you go in the Czech Republic. I have had tapped and bottled many times, usually unwillingly because it often is the only choice in bars. The sort of "eurobeer" with awkward flavor. Huge advertising made it the favoured 10 degree in the country among the local beer public. Hope the Czechs won’t be buying this for much longer.

Draught at Hospoda U Nováka - before dinner. Clear golden - white head. Egg, bread, bitterness, wet hay. Boring - very thin !!

Tap and Bottled, Prague. Not an excellent beer, but satisfactory as a regular drink. Appears watery, but has a moderate taste. A little more bitter than Plzen’s other offerings.

Bought this at the train station for a 40 cents Canadian the moment we crossed the Czech border. Compared to Canadian Lagers this is outstanding compared to other Czech lagers ordinary. Page 181 of Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide and only 399 out of 500 Classic Brews to go.

Bottled: Golden color, few carbonation, frothy white head. Corny, grainy aroma, light hop notes. Flavor is corny, grainy, light sweetish, light hoppy. Too corny, to watery.

On tap at The Hotel Florenc, Prague, filtered, 500 ml. Pale yellow, highly gassed, white head. We were lucky to have a locals bar in the Hotel we were staying at, it gave a good feel to our trip that we were not in Tourist land, although the Girls found it very smokey. The Gambrinua was very thin and gassy with a slight malty base and a lemony acidic note. Eurofizz indeed.

Bottle: Golden coloured, smaller fluffy white head, slowly diminishing; sweet-grainy nose, voering some hop-bitterness; moderate bitter-sweet flavour, rather thin malty base, quite fizzy MF; short - more sweet than bitter - finish. A drinkable thirst-quencher, made for the hot bohemian deserts.......