Pilsner Urquell

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

i wanted to like it more, but i blame it on the green bottle. smells skunky, but not horrible. i like the clean hops and malt in this one, very crisp and refreshing. bready, sort of cereal malts. moderately bitter. goes really well with food. i wish they’d use brown bottles instead. great warm weather beer though, and i hear it’s going to be 110 tomorrow.

Bottle. Pours a really nice golden color with a decent pillowy white head that fades slightly, but lasts for a good while. Has a very nice malt/hop balance and taste. Kind of sweet and is fairly bitter. The aroma matches the taste. Overall, this is a fairly refreshing and fulfilling beer, that is well worth the price and I would not mind buying this again.

On draft in Prague. Medium white head and clear darkish yellow color. Nose is a bit hoppier than usual, as well as flowery. Clean crisp sweet malt at first and also a nice mild bitter finish. Certainly one (if not the best) of the best pilsners i had in Czech.

Bottle from Tank’s Bar & Grill in Dayton. Has a typical pilsener, lager aroma. Clear bright golden in color with a white head. Has a decent bitter sweet taste. It’s pretty much what I expected from a quality pilsener, nothing too surprising. Definitely a clean, crisp finish though.

nice pilsener aroma, quite strong aroma for a macro. white head, relatively large, darkish clear yellow. Looks great. bitter taste (like pilsene) but a little more sweetness and bitterness than the average pilsener. aftertaste is sweet combined with pilsener. aftertaste lasts for a while. Great taste for a "low" alc.% beer.

Considering this is a mass produced beer it doesn’t seem to suffer the problems of other such beers in that you pretty much know what you are going to get all the time.

12oz bottle: pours golden brown with large white head that fades to lacing in about a minute. aroma of very pale grain and some hints of butterscotch. best lager i have ever had could apeal to anyone looking for an easy drinker all the way up to the biggest beer snob.

The thing I most remember about this beer is that it had one of the most memorable aromas that jumped out at me as soon as I opened the bottle. It was crisp and fairly strong, but not overpowering. The appearance wasn’t all too impressive to me -- yellow with a head that dissipated within a minute or two. Flavor was good for a light beer as this, especially since I am a fan of the darker beers. There was enough of a hoppy taste to tell you are drinking a good beer, but not so much hops as to overpower the taste. Overall a well-balanced taste. The texture was a bit thin but smooth. Overall one of my favorite beers for chilling on the deck during the summer.