Klášter Světlý Ležák 11°

Brewed by Pivovar Klášter
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Hradiště nad Jizerou, Czech Republic

Couleur blonde paille, apparence claire et filtrée. Belle mousse blanche, écumeuse et persistante, adhérant bien à la paroi du verre. Grain, foin et empreintes de levure délicate aux parfums de pain frais. Une belle touche florales et herbales est amenée par ces houblons à caractère noble. Corps d’épaisseur moyenne semblant parfait pour le style, douce et éternelle carbonatation propulsant bien les saveurs. Finale légèrement amère. Rafraîchissante et bien balancé. Un bon exemple de la délicatesse et de la noblesse du style.

Sparkling clear gold to straw color. The head is white, smallish yet mostly lasting. A strong floral, spicy saaz hoppiness immediately shows its unique aptitude to pair along with the maltiness it lives with. Very fresh aromas of enticing bread and cereals. Slightly candyish sweetness lies a fragrant toastiness. Various herbs and straw wave at us on the way to refreshment wonderland. Surprisingly mineral, but even more impressively balanced. Fresh cereals and sweet graininess working in pair with a generous growing hoppy dryness. Long-lasting carbonation, active and engaging. Light-medium body. Most worthy example.

First experience, from the bottle in 2005:
The Lure:
Flower petals amongst the crispy hay. An attractive farmstead calling for a relaxing walk.

The Festivities:
Serene equilibrium of straw-like pale malts and wooden, resinous hop flavors and bitterness. Lemony sunrays illuminate the flavorful and agreeable union.

Transcendence:
Authentic, flowing, golden locks.

Second experience, this time from the tap at Praha’s Klasterni Pivnice:
Honeyed maltiness overcame lowly grassy, herbal hops as watery passages made this workman’s pint very drinkable, but not memorable. 3.1/5

Bottled. Deep golden with rich head. Excellent saaz orangey/grassy hop aroma. Soft and sweet, gently malty with oily, butterscotchy, very bitter finish. Old school Czech beer with all the delight the oily butterscotch brings.

Crystal clear orange/yellow. . . minimal head, but a ring of white lingers. . . spoiled fruit, wet cardboard malt aroma. Orangey malt with some very natural chewy hop flavours. The malt seems to over power and dull the hops, not unpleasant, but nothing great.

thanks to motelpogo for bothering to put this in the DB. dark yellow i'd call it. spicy hop aroma. strangely sticky peanutty malt annoys me a bit, but it's smooth and soft and honeyish, with a bit of flowery bitterness. definitely weirdly oily as omhper says about the 12.

tasted a lot like peanut and was strangely unfizzy. must have been a bit stale which doesn't take czech pilsener long