 omhper (10140), Stockholm, Sweden
Jul 2, 2008 Draught at the brewery (from oak) Cloudy golden, small creamy head. Evident grassy saaz hop aroma. Dry and clean. I seem to sense a bit of oakiness in the crisp malt character. Light-medium bodied. Feels alive and fresh and finishes with lingering bitter finish. One of the top beers of the style!
The unfiltered one at Na Parkanu is understandably similar. If something it felt a bit more grainy, and I couldn’t detect the very vague oakiness I thought I sensed at the brewery tour.
yespr (5521), Copenhagen O, Denmark
Jul 2, 2008 RB#5200: From the barrel at the brewery. Pours hazy golden yellow with a creamy and white head. Aroma dry malty and light spiced hoppy. Flavour is smooth malty with a light bitterness showing through. Delicate fruity flavour and mild acidity. Ends smooth and medium bitter. Great, I really enjoyed getting a second glass of this.7-4-8-4-15=3.8
From tap at Na Parkanu. Pours hazy orange with q creamy off-white head. Aroma mild yeasty and light cornish. Flavour is smooth yeasty and mild cornish. Fresh hoppy flavour too. Shows a light bitterness to a very nice fruity hops and yeast flavour into the finish. Lovely pilsner.7-4-8-4-15=3.8
duff (5403), Sydney, Australia, Surrey, England
Mar 18, 2005 Tap@Na Parkanu, Plzen-with motelpogo. I don’t think i’ve ever had a Czeck pils quite as bitter and dry as this one. Some dry peach in the start, finishes quite grassy, and as i said a really dry and bitter saazy finish. It was a little chilly the day we had it, so that perhaps dampened my enthusiaism for this beer, but it was still well worth it.
oh6gdx (5195), Vaasa, Finland
Jul 9, 2008 Draught@the brewtour. Hazy orange colour, mediumsized creamy white head. Aroma is yeast, very sweet fruityness, some diacetyl and a bit mouldy. Flavour is diacetyl, zatec hops, sweet malts, grassyness. Very pleasant. 8 4 8 4 16.
Draught@Na Parkanu. Golden colour, big white head. Aroma is malts, yeast, some hints of bread as well as mild notes of eggyness. Flavour is malts, yeast, hops, some diacetyl and a bit of breadyness. 7 4 7 4 15.
harrisoni (4896), Ashford, Kent, Kent, England
Jul 8, 2008 Updated: Jul 9, 2008On tap at Na Parkanu. I had been travelling all day from London to Plzen and I had humped my luggage halfway across town to my hotel, before heading down here to meet up with the rest of the RBESG. I hadn’t had a drink all day and it had been very hot by English standards. So by 19.30 I was gasping for a cold beer. Which makes this probably explains partly why I liked it so much. Slightly cloudy gold, thick off white head. Earthy aroma. Yeast. This is gorgeous. Some bitterness/yeast/earthy. So refreshing. Almost tastes as if it was dryhopped with earthy hops. That is awesome. 4.3/5.0.
Re-rate 2 days later on the Saturday evening with Chris_o and Ruth. I still absolutely loved this, but I knocked 0.1 off now that I had time to reflect more on it. Still the best Czech beer I had over the weekend and the only one I conciously went back for. We had a filtered pint inbetween 2 unfiltered and the difference really was startling. The unfiltered is just so much better.
Re-rate-unfiltered from the brewery from the wood. Hazy gold, thin lasting white head, slightly woody yeast, hoppy aroma. I think maybe more intense than the Na Parkanu version, bit more uncultured, more hoppy, but I prefer the Na Parkanu more 3.8/5.0
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