Pilsner Urquell

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

Absolutely one of the most unique beers I’ve ever tasted... very hoppy, beautiful golden color, perfectly skunky... good stuff! Cheers!

Draught. Yellow straw pour with a fizzy white head. Aroma of pepper and malt. Great balanced body with a nice bitter peppery finish. Fantastic pils.

Bottle at Captain Anderson’s Restaurant P.C. Beach, Fl. Golden, straw colored with small white head. I think I know what "grassy" smells like now. Bitter with an aftertaste. Not impressed, but it was my first Pilsner.

Very drinkable. Light in flavour yet leaves a nice impression. Yeasty, slightly lemony, grassy and malty. The kind of beer you can drink at any time of day or night.

Bottle: (3,8%at the label) Clear yellow colour, with a thin head. Aroma of malts,grassy,and a nice bitter nose in the end. Flavor is mild,smouth thin mouth feeling,short finish.

I’ve had this in the can in the US and on draft in Plzen. There is a big difference. The canned version in the US is much better than bottles, but it still pales in comparision to draft in the Czech Republic. Grassy hops and a balanced matliness. Dry finish.

In a nutshell, if it wasn’t for those wonderful Czechs and their love for beer, what we know and love about a large majority of our beers, the other side of ales, might not even exist. Truly, if it wasn’t for Pilsner Urquell, our modern beer world would be quite different.
Hail to the brew master.
Pilsner Urquell pours a sweet golden straw in my pilsner glass, practically exploding into a gorgeous 2 fingers thick minimum head of luscious foam. Wow. She eventually fades into a small ring around the glass with a few clouds floating on top. A couple swirls and she foams up nicely. The nose speaks beautifully of grassy hops with lemon and citrus esters. A quaff of her sweet and slightly creamy body yields a richly crisp array of hop oils and sweet, freshly cut grass sit up front while lemon and citrus mingles in the background. A clean finish with only a mild afterimage of hops and grass. Light on the tongue and in the mouth, there is enough body to put Pilsner Urquell above a light lager, just as she should be. Further quaffing reveals an almost perfect balance between the grassy, citrusy, oily hops and the undertones of sweet malts for that slightly nutty caramel soft palate. Sometimes I like to savor my beers, but I find myself quickly at the end of my glass of Pilsner Urquell and wanting another.
While Pilsner Urquell is available domestically, it is a pasteurized version available for import. Supposedly over the years, Pilsner Urquell has lost a bit of her initial bite. Whether that was/is for international purposes in regards to export, or just design decisions by the brewmaster(s), one may never know. Even so, Pilsner Urquell still stands tall as one of the premier examples of the Pilsner style.

50cl Bottle @ home. Clear golden, white head. Aroma of grass and malts, hops. Flavour is dry, a bit sweet and grassy, bitter finish. Just a very good crisp pilsener.