Pilsner Urquell Kvasnicový (Yeast beer)

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

Entered to celebrate my rating number 10,900 with a top 50 beer. Draft from the wooden barrel in the callars of the brewery. A hazy light golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of straw, malt, and citrusy notes of hops as well as hints of wood. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of straw and citrus as well as lighter notes of wood and sulpur. I am amazed how great this beer is - I had no idea a pilsner could be this great.

The unfiltered version from steel tank: An unclear dark golden beer with a huge off-white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt, straw, hops, and grass. The flavor is sweetwith notes of grass, malt, and caramel, leading to a dry finish. [8/3/8/4/15=3.8]

On tap at Urquell. Hazy golden with a tall. dense and creamy head leaving laces. Very malty aroma with a whiff of yeast. Medium body, sweet maltiness with lots of flowery hop accents. Dry and hoppy finish with the hops really growing on your palate. 270608 and 280608.

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

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.

Draught Na Parkanu. Hazy orange colour. Big stable creamy white head. The flavour is very refreshing, fruity with a medium bitterness. Grapey fruity hop flavour. Very drinkable and good.

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.

Cloudy golden with medium white head. Sweet fruity aroma with yeasty, hoppy, floral and caramel notes. Sweet fruity, flavor with caramel and hoppy notes.

On 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