LAmère à Boire Cerna Hora

Brewed by LAmère à Boire
Style: Bohemian Pilsener
Montreal, Canada

A hazy orange beer with a small white head. The aroma is very lightly malty, while the flavor contains lots of hops and is very crisp on a malty backgroun. The flavor is really Bohemian, but the flavor lacks a lot.

Golden coloured. Light bodied, dry bitter. Some saaz hop aroma.

Orangey-amber colour. Rocky head. Earthy-fruity hops in the nose w/ slight biscuity malt. Creamy, with light hops and depth of bready malts.

Clear straw with white head. Aroma is mild sweet and grassy. Taste is sweet grassy, with light herbal finish. Light body.

Solid appearance for a pilsner, golden with a big white head, very foamy and nicely sticky. Aroma of baked cookies, pancakes and light fresh Saaz hops. This is pretty good, good malty character well-balanced by the meticulous hopping which bring a nice herbal saaz cripsness, the finish is a little watery, the bottom of the keg perhaps.. The body is top notch though, filling and velvety. / A few weeks later, I find it far less crisp with a more restrained Saaz character, surprisingly not so consistent? From 3.7 to 3.4/ Seems to vary between 3.1 and 4.1 between my visits. I’ll round this up to 3.6, but know that you can face something spectacular when ordering this.

Draft... Clear, golden lager with a rocky head. The nose is of citrus fruit and very bready. The flavor matches the nose. Light-bodied and creamy with fizzy carbonation. Crisp, lightly bitter finish.

Note: Since they’ve switched to whole leaf Saaz (they used pellets before), this beer has gone from very good to world-class. A simply gorgeous BohPils.

The Lure:
Lovely biscuity pils malt and yeast interplay serving as fluffy cushions for the hovering oily, earthy Saaz hoppiness. Mild citrus fruit swimming within. This is a spot-on quality re-creation of the Czech pils which many Czech breweries would be proud of. The only thing which could be improved upon for a perfect emulation would be a loftier head of foam, as this one possesses a very shy, although lingering, ring.

The Festivities:
Again, the pils malt cookies and Czech yeast hug so amorously, they are difficult to distinguish separately. Oily, earthy hops are prolonged into a sublime grassy, herbal bitterness, aided into balance by the aforementioned yeast/malt love affair. Citrus fruit are definitely admitted into this humble palace, and converse amicably with all participants. I can practically smell the cheese-filled meat and its paprika sauce, and see the accompanying knedlikys and potato pancakes, this is how real this bohemian pilsner is.

Transcendence:
Red roofs, cobblestone streets, intermingling gothic and renaissance architectures, church spires on the expansive town square...peace within me.

Light golden beer. Thin head. Aroma is light and spicy. Citrus and zesty hops with a similar character as in the helles, but the hops here play a more prominent role. Soft lingering betterness. Another awesome lager.