Zywiec Jasne Pelne (Beer)

Brewed by Grupa Zywiec
Style: Premium Lager
Zywiec, Poland

Bottle. Being Polish-American, it was time to taste Poland’s best seller. Poured a medium amber with average white head. Aroma and flavor was an average hop tone with a medium finish. Average brew. Will hunt out the Porter.

(Bottle 33 cl) Poland’s best known beer? Well, at least outside Poland it is, I guess. Clear, golden with a very limited head. Most characteristic is the extremely soft mouthfeel, almost like velvet on your tongue... Maybe it’s because of the mountain springwater? All aside it’s basically just a strong lager with a rounded bitterness. Good one. 140203

500ml brown bottle. Golden pour, holds a creamy white head that fades into a thin film on the surface. Some malt in aroma, light grassy hop. Flavourwise, some clean malts, a bit of hops in aftertaste.

head it quick to diminish, pale amber colour. aromas of lemon and hopps. bitter finish, standard stuff.

[bottle] Bright straw with a rocky, white head that dissipates to a thick cover. Aroma is a little bit skunky, but full of noble hops that is balanced with a crisp maltiness; notes of fruit and a tiny bit of diacetyl. Flavour does not blow you away, but is a pleasant blend of noble hops and malt with a little fruitiness and the diacetyl that was present in the aroma does not come out in the flavour. Some ginger ale quality after halfway through the bottle and nondescript fruit. Light body with considerable carbonation, but not watery. Not a bad lager, really.

Light and fruity, pretty clean taste. This doesn’t deviate too much from the ranks of random european lagers, but order it fearlessly in a Polish restaurant.

I drank quite of few of these over the past few months and I can say that I’ve never been disappointed. Quite a nice looking beer--straw gold, foam for a brief moment--but nothing out of this world. I don’t recall anything out of the ordinary about the smell--certainly not anything negative that others have noted. I don’t mind the flavour, but a friend who tried it when I first brought it home was immediately turned off by it. A good brew to have now and again, but nothing to die for.

Pale yellow colour with a small white head. Aroma of malts and hops with notes of sweet gale. Watery flavour with notes of malt, alcohol and hops. Boring beer, one of the few beers that I couldn’t finish.