Staropramen Granát (Garnet)

(Draught at Hard Rock Café, Stockholm, 31 Oct 2009) Brownish amber colour with a frothy, off-white head. Malty nose with notes of dark bread, wort, dried fruit and toffee. Malty taste with notes of dried fruit, bread, caramel and a slightly spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, balanced sweetness. Tasty and decent beer, but hardly exciting.

Thx to Mikal Zitko. Bottle, 0,50 cl. Taste 12.09.09 @ beerzolder Alvinne. Clear darkgolden to light amber color with a large, off-white head. Aroma sweet, grainy-malts, caramel note. Light body. Taste sweet, malts, watery, little bitter.

Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is malty with some light grass and pine hop. Flavour is sweet caramel, and some grass hop.

Tap.50cl. Sweet caramel malty fruity aroma and a thin caramel hoppy taste. Light body and a sweet watery finish.

0.33 L bottle from Systembolaget. A thin offwhite head upon a reddish-amber, crystal clear body. Modest aroma of toasted malts with bread notes and a whiff of some quite unfresh, light cardboardy hops. Taste has a light malt profile, fairly sweet, slight peppery, with a faint caramel note. Light to medium body. Fizzy mouthfeel. Some fruitiness into a short, dry malty ending. One of a dozen.

Bottled. Amber with white head. Aroma of malt and fruit. Flavor is malt, caramel, red fruit, butter and hop bitterness

draft in Prague. pours copper, white head. aroma is malty, light caramel. Taste, malty, light caramel, some hops bitterness with a light fruit presence.

33cl bottle. Best before 2009-01-18. Whoops. It poured an amber orange colour with a medium big white foamy head that settled down fast in the glass. The aroma is malty with some grassy notes. The flavour is a bit bitter with notes of grass and malts. It has a short aftertaste. It’s a bit milder than some lagers, but nothing special.