Pilsner Urquell

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

Bottle. A sentimental favorite of mine. Pours a yellow gold color, and a medium white head. Aroma is mild mats and toffee, but mostly hops. Taste is classic, this is the definitive beer of a whole category of modern beers. A great hoppy bite throughout and a clean taste throughout.

Bottle. Had this one in 06. Poured gold with a fizzy white head. Smells of malts and light hops, slighly skunky. Tasted very crisp, with lots of grain malts, some corn, and a nice balance of bittering hops. Pretty good beer.

My favorite Pilsner. Early taste of grain and hops. Finishes bitter with a sharp whack to the palate. Great.

The original Pilsner is still a contender. It begins with Saaz hop, malt, and apple notes in the aroma. Beautiful pale amber color, crystalline in appearance, with a light but firm head. The hops hit up front but do not linger, then the pale malt takes over. Apple-like tartness lingers in the finish. Warning: this beer lends itself to session drinking if you’re not careful!

Bottled. Golden with a fine white head. Aroma: Initial strong hop aroma Flavor: smooth slight hop that transitions into bitter, then slightly tart flavor.

(500ml bottle, Tesco’s) Poured a golden colour with many fast bubbles rising to the clean white head at the top. Smell of Saaz hops but lacked any skunkiness that cheaper pilsners get. Taste was a big flavour bomb that I wasn’t expecting from a lager, great hop presence and a nice biter finish. Not a huge number of flavours in there but the ones it has it does very well. Not overly carbonated, and never watery, this was a really refreshing, nice lager. I’d choose this over any other pilsner no doubt. Great.

Pours a orangey yellow with lots of fine carbonation and a small head that never really disappears. Aroma is of saaz hops, oily smell with apples, floral almost cologne smell, citrus, and some mustiness. Tastes fairly oily, apples, honey, citrus, a little corn, and a earthy lightly bitter finish. Mouth feel is really good, oily, nice full but small bubbles in the carbonation. Nice, defiantly the benchmark of all pilsners.

Pilsner Urquel poured clear and gold with little head. It’s aroma is of malt and floral hops. It had a great presence on the palate with nice contest between the malts and hops with the hops winning out in the end. Refreshing and very drinkable.