Primus Světlé (Pale)

Brewed by Plzensky Prazdroj (SABMiller)
Style: Pale Lager
Plzen, Czech Republic

Bottled. Pale glden, rocky head. Soapy hoppy nose. Medium sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Light bodied with doughy malt covered in thin layers of grass. Finishes with medium bitterness.

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small lacing white head. Mild cornish and light fruity hops aroma. Mild grassy and towards cardboardish in the initial flavour. Light acidic and bitter as main flavour yet with a mild fruity hops note.

Bottled. A dark golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, straw, and Saaz hops. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and straw, leading to a bitter straw finish.

(bottle) Clear, golden coloured hue with a fluffy, slightly off-white foamy head. Sweet and sour doughy malty nose with slightly grassy hops. Sweet and faint bitter flavour, slim bodied with a soft carbonation. Soft malty base with an ugly metallic finish (18.08.08).

Bottle, 500ml, pasteurised from Tesco, Plzen. Yellow gold with white head. Promising aroma but disappointing flavour. aroma is light and grassy, but there is absolutely nothing coming through on the flavour, just a dull malty body, sweetish, no hops nor character. Dull.

Bottled (BB 11/2008)
Clear golden color, small white head. Grassy, a bit cheap hoppy nose. Medium-bodied, but mostly tasteless. Some sweet maltyness. Fizzy Eurolager, which lacks a bit on everything.

No 314
Rated: 26.01.2008
Bottle brown, 500 ml
Appearance: Pours shiny gold body with mild carbonation and rather small head, slowly decreasing and giving very faint traces of lacing (almost nothing). Head is frothy, white in colour. Body is not perfectly clear and filtered, but still can be clasified as such in its texture.
Aroma: Chalk, dust, graphite, mineral nose, alcohol is very well hidden, very gentle, grassy hops on the top and rather weak watered maltiness of a noble kind. Generally rather weak aroma in its intensity, but still stronger than in ’Klasik’.
Flavour: Front is mineral, rich in carbonation, malty - sweet, than some grainy touch on palate with grassy and not that strong to be bitter, hops. Aromatic hoppy nose, but simply (grassy touch) and in generall no bitterness. More sweet oriented beer. To strong carbonation, even for a Bohemian Pilsener. Finish duration is medium.
Palate: Body is light, texture is wattery, carboantion is livley on palate, finish feel is grainy, with chalk, mineral nose. All in all average Bohemian Pilsener.

(50 cl bottle from either Tesco or ALbert, Czech Rep)
On July 3, 2008
BB 06.02.08
Clear golden color, fluffy white head. Malty, metallic and butterscotch taste. Metallic and malty sweet scent. Smooth mouthfeell, low bitterness.