by Bruguru in Restaurants & Gourmet, - Top 50, Dec 30 '00
Pros: Best on draft, soft and malty, hoppy, delicious, word class brew Cons: Green glass bottles
When you think of the great brewing nations of the world, which ones come to mind? Germany and Belgium, England and the USA perhaps most immediately. Yet the nation responsible for the world’s most copied beer style is in fact the Czech Republic. Here,...
Pros: It's the Original Cons: Grren Bottles can lead to Light Damage
Originally brewed in Bohemia in 1842, Pilsner Urquell was the world's first pilsner beer. Its name is derived from Plzen, Czechoslovakia, the city were it was first brewed. The second part of the name, Urquell, is German for "original source"....
Pros: Pure Saaz, top to bottom, in a true classic brew Cons: Fragile beer that needs care and feeding
What do you want to hear? You want me to slam this beer? Ain't gonna happen. You want me to rave incoherently. Ain't gonna happen (unless you feed me enough of 'em). What there is to be said about Pilsner Urquell has been said here before. The beer is ...
Pros: cold and refreshing Cons: indistinct marketing
Pilsner Urquell, for all intensive purposes, is the real King of Beers. For ages, the town of Pilsen, in the Czech Republic, was known for brewing the pilsner style beer - pale in color and loaded with hops. Pilsner Urquell was born as a result...
Urquell means 'original source' and Pilsner Urquell IS indeed the original pilsner beer. Of course it has been much copied - usually by lesser, blander beers - throughout the world. In 1838, the burghers of Plzen (Pilsen in German), ...
Pros: Still one of the best, and the benchmark for Bohemian pilsner Cons: Fragile; green glass bottles don't keep the beer in its best condition either.
Birth of a Style The Czechs created Pilsner Urquell in 1842, using a lightly-kilned barley malt and their local, very soft water. The town of Plzen popularized this new style of beer -- clear, light-colored, and satisfying beer. Pretty, ...
Over the past month I have been reading many beer reviews on epinions, and been introduced to some beers of the highest quality. One of these, which I previously only knew by name, was Pilsner Urquell. My pilsner drinking days pretty much ended before I...
Pros: Still the standard for pilsners Cons: green bottles!
It's a cold Saturday in January and the football game is turning into a blowout. You hope for better when it's the NFL play-offs but mismatches do happen. Needing a pick me up, I decided to revisit a world classic: Pilsner Urquell. This is the...
Pros: Malty and hoppy, with a perfect balance between the two. Easy to find. Cons: Green bottles or cans - pick your poison.
I blinked bemusedly at the menacingly floating apparition that had erupted as I opened a bottle of Gulden Draak. I've never known anything pleasant to come from a Gulden Draak bottle, but this was absurd. "Foolish mortal!" bellowed the ...
Pros: the perfect pilsner Cons: not quite enough alcoholic bite
Pilsner Urquell, you will learn by reading the bottle or reading other reviews, was originally brewed in Bohemia in 1842. It was the world's first pilsner beer, so they claim... the name comes from Plzen, Czehoslovakia, the city in which it was brewed....
Where does my history with Pilsner Urquell start? My guess is that it dates back to the mid-1980's and the Pizza Plant in Buffalo, NY. In those days a really high-class beer joint would have at least 10 or so different brews from around the world, and...
Pros: Nice hop bite. Sure is pretty to look at. Cons: Green bottles lead to skunkiness. Expensive.
Pilsner. The single most popular and, dare I say, overused beer style in the United States. Listen to the macro breweries and EVERYTHING is a pilsner. The fact is, most domestic beers such as Bud and Miller are cheap imitations of the pilsner style....
Pros: A delicious refreshing beer, especially good for summer Cons: There are no cons to THIS beer
This is one of the great beers, in my opinion. It is versatile enough that it can be poured down in great quantity, or it can be savoured sip by sip. Of course, I prefer the volume approach.
I bought a dozen of these to celebrate coming home...
Pros: a great tasting lager, nice bitterness, good body Cons: available in all 50 states... just hard to find
This is probably the most famous beer brewed in the Czech Republic. It is the World’s first “Golden” lager. It is brewed by the largest brewer in Central/Eastern Europe.
A small historical point: the Czech city of Pilsen is the home...
Brewed in the Czech Republic, in the town of Plzen, which we English speakers translate to Pilsen, Pilsner Urquell® is produced using only Czech hops, malt, and Plzen water.
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