Holba Serak 11°

Brewed by Pivovar Holba
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Hanušovice, Czech Republic

Bottle. High creamy and lasting white head. Clear yellow body. Sweet nutty malty aroma. Malt aroma with a fair amount of hops bitterness. Low carbonation. Long aftertaste.

Draught at Vltava, Helsinki. Golden color. The aroma is even with toffeish-honeyish malt and herbal-peppery hops. The flavor follows the aroma. Tastes initially almost too sweet but gets more bitter and balanced towards finish. Easy and drinkable pilsner.

hop aroma,golden, clear, white foam, medium bitterness, medium body, average carbonation, bitter, average lager

Golden color with a medium head. Mild, somewhat buttery aroma with a hint of grassy hops. Buttery, malty, sweetish, acidic and slightly metallic flavor. Quite light-bodied, a bit hard-carbonated palate. A not very memorable, decent but light and hard-carbonated lager

<i>Bottled.</i> Clear golden, airy head. Vague grassy nose. Sweet and appley, fairly light bodied with clean, rounded mouthfeel Lightly hoppy salty finish. Simple, but functional.

Bottle: Golden to deep golden with a bigger loose and lacy head; cardboardy and hoppy nose; quite dry bitter-sweet flavour, light bodied; some sweet pale-malty illusions in the otherwise dry bitter finish. Tastes better than it smells...........

No 544
Rated: 31.08.2008
Pet brown, 1500 ml, 11 P
Appearance: Pours deep and essential true golden and perfectly clear body with moderate to gentle carbonation, head is foamy, grey, initially rathe small to average but quickly decreasing to only a minimal froth floating on the body surface.
Aroma: Initially rather kind of sweety - dull with strange kind of plastic hints but this plastic origin note disappears quickly and gives its place to a moderately alcoholic and moderately sweet, fat malty base suggesting much higher gravity beer than it really is. Some slightly chalky and dusty - fruity notes of citruses and herbs from hops, slightly milky
Flavour: Front is sweet and moderately alcoholic with kind of robust dull hoppyness. Not specially interesting especially due to the fact of leaving not clean and highly unfresh dull, cardboard, parched and simmultanously flat and shallow aftertaste with quite high level of alcohol thet is really felt in not necesarly nice way. Kind of artificial impression. Not well pronounced ingredients. Finish duration is short to medium, tastes more like a Premium Lager than a Bohemian Pilsener.
Palate: Body is light to medium, texture is wattery to strange and unpleasant rough and sandy, carbonation on palate is moderate, finish feel is chalky, dull, parched and kind of fat in terms of flavour but moderately alcoholic. Tastes like a boring market lager, accidity in the aftertaste such as from brewing cereal.