Showing posts with label Staropramen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Staropramen. Show all posts

Saturday, August 4, 2018

on the runway

How can you not just pick up everything you see in the land of beer?  Mostly lack of arm space, I think.  It's early days here, so I haven't had a chance to roam out looking for beer shops, which I believe do exist.  If I've been misinformed, there are certainly craft beer bars.  For lack of other avenues, the supermarket is always a last resort.  I have to settle for cans at the moment too, since it seems unnecessary to splurge on a bottle opener, and there's a can front and center that looks like a good start.  BranĂ­k, product of Staropramen, ought to be an easing into beers of the area, nothing too fancy just yet.

Indeed, very light colored, fluffy head but rapidly disappearing head.  Sweet and fruity aroma, a bit appley.  Bitter taste at first, but some sweet washes over.  The tail end goes back to bitter, but nothing very powerful.  It's a very easy going beer, would have been good with the spaghetti at dinner in fact.  It's very regular, not changing at all in flavor over time, really.  Although it's not a very attention grabbing beer, it is a nice one to have on a disgustingly warm evening, waiting for the place to cool down.  Other than that aspect, there's not a whole lot going for it in terms of memorability.
Hopefully there will be more experimental things to come.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

from summers past

Last summer I was in the right place to tour the Staropramen brewery.  It's...OK.  Now it's self-guided, recently changed from having a person actually take you around and tell you things.  I don't doubt that it's cheaper and easier to do things that way, especially with a number of languages involved for different groups of visitors, but self-guided tours tend to get a little cheesy.  Still, it's a fine product and I felt a bit of nostalgia seeing it on the shelf.
Say it with feeling - Staropramen!!
 There's a strong pilsner smell as soon as the cap is removed, tangy, sour, promising.  The color is right, although the head is a little fizzy rather than fluffy.  It's also very bubbly.  Other pilsners made in Spain have not been especially pleasing to me, but Staropramen is imported from the Czech Republic, so it should be authentic - and it is.  Refreshing bitter pilsner, none of the weird sourness or other interesting flavors that get put in other beers.  It's clean and classic, a beer for sitting around and people watching in the park, or relaxing at the end of the day with a book or a good movie.
I'm holding it up because there's laundry out the window, OK?