Czech Beer

Can anybody tell me the best beers to sample. I hear Staropramen has gone down hill is this a fact????

Also i have noticed Same beers with different numbers after, re Gambius 10` and Gambius 12`. What does this mean and is this beer any good?? Can%26#39;t remember this from previous visit and it seems a lot cheaper than Bud and Pilsner Urquell when browsing bar websites on the web.

Thanks

Tom

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http://www.classiccitybrew.com/prague.html

this is a list of beer hall pubs and micro breweries ,all of which sell good beer.

I particularly enjoyed the St Norberts amber beer from the Klasterini Pivovari but lots of great beers around.

of the more common ones I like Krosovice,Bernards Budwieser,Gambrinus and Pilsner Urquell,

The 10%26#39; 12%26#39; refers to the strenth the higher the number the stronger it is.

…blogspot.com/2008/01/some-serious-beer-hunt…

have a look at this website ,it is the Blog of Pivero a regular contributer to this forum,I have been in several of the bars he mentions.

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Czech beer is great, but Staropramen is%26#39;nt. The most importent with the beer is not necassary which brand you taste, but where you taste it. Look at unclegus%26#39;s links above!

I%26#39;m going myself in June/July and here%26#39;s my list of pubs that I shall visit this time:

U Klastera, Belohorska. Beer: Klaster, Primator

Svijansky Rytir, Jireckova 13. Beer: Svijansky

Kralovsti, Kubelikova 36. Beer: Cerna Hora

These pubs have beers that I have%26#39;nt teasted before.

I will also visit my regular pubs such as the famous U Zlatheo Tygra for Pilsner Urquell.

The 10% and 12% shows how much maltsuger there is in a beer. 10% has lower alcohol than 12the 12%.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks Chaps.

Thought this was the case. Does the stronger versions in your opinion taste better? What about hangovers. Is there any particular brand which gives a higher risk of hangover?

So Gambrius is a decent beer!!!!!!, i have seen that it can cost only 19czk around the old town, which is £0.66p, bargain...

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I like the 11 and 12 versions best since they got more body. I know a lot about hangovers, but if you eat heavy food and do a lot of walking I think you can minimize it. Bring good shoes!

I have heard people say that a lot of budweiser give you serious hangover! Pilsner Urquell give you less they say!Good luck:)

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Think will be best to try for ourselves. I much prefer Urquell to Budvar but thats my opinion.

Suppose where we drink rather than what we drink, will be the thing re.. hangovers.

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Tom, you are right about the place you drink.

Czech beer wisdom says that the quality of a pint depends 50% on who brews it, and 50% on who taps it. In many cases, that is true, I%26#39;ve been to places where an average beer like Gambrinus 10° becomes pretty good, and others where Ferdinand 12° becomes below average.

About which one tastes better. In general, the stronger you go, the more intense flavours it will have as the beers will have been brewed with more malts. But beers like Černá Hora Nefiltrovaná 10° or Chýně 10° (this one from a brewpub just outside Prague) have very intersting flavours.

As for Budvar giving you hangovers. I heard it is because the lactic acid that you are left with after a heavy session of Budvar, a natural thing that is easily avoidable by having a pint of Budvar every day for a few days.

Which beers to sample? You must start with Pilsner Urquell and then explore the brewpubs and those pubs that have beers you%26#39;ve never heard of.

Na Zdraví

MAX

http://pivni-filosof.blogspot.com/

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the Gambrinus is made in the same brewery as Pilsner Urquell,but they use a cheaper brewing process (don%26#39;t ask me how, I wasn%26#39;t listening on that part of the tour)It is marketed at the football crowd as Gambrinus sponsers the national league in the Czech Republic,It is a good enough beer and as Pivero says it can taste very good depending on the expertise of the bar staff tapping it(some guys are very good).I enjoy the Gambrinus very much.

As for hangovers ,can%26#39;t ever remebering having one in all my visits to the Czech Republic.(tough thrust deep in cheek)

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Perhaps my saying that Gambrinus can be %26quot;pretty good%26quot; is an overstatement. I think that, even at the best places that beer is getting worse and worse. Still, in the right hands, it makes a fine beer for a hot summer day.

MAX

http://pivni-filosof.blogspot.com/

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Remember - the guy behind the beer pump is the boss, and if you want a decent beer go to the good old-fashioned places, which generally do not have a name that can be easily discerned, just a beer sign hanging outside it. Such places will have a proper full-time %26#39;výčepní%26#39; (beermeister) who will lovingly create each beer for you. This is a dying art, so you should catch it while you can, and you won%26#39;t generally find these in the centre. If you see somewhere called purely %26#39;Pivnice%26#39; or %26#39;Restaurace%26#39;, go for it, although such places are getting few and far between. Likewise for an excellent meal the %26#39;Bufets%26#39; cannot be beaten - I used to have them all mapped out in Prague, but they have mostly gone by the wayside.

Oh for a cracked plate of sekaná s bramborovým salátem !

BTW I have never had a hangover from Czech beer, despite many years of trying :) In fact it is relatively difficult to actually get (nastily) drunk on the stuff, if you have the right company and surroundings - it is very easy to down ten 10° beers of an evening without too much damage - just be careful of doing the same with the 12° though. This has something to do with the fact that one sits down at tables in pubs and generally there isn%26#39;t loud music blasting out every conversation, unlike in the UK, where the experience of going to the pub has become most unpleasant (and expensive) of late.

Best beer - Bernard, if you can find it. But ALL beers, even Gambrinus, are better than the swill served up in UK pubs. One need to be there for a while (or be a regular visitor) for one%26#39;s Carlsberg-blunted palette to become honed to the nuances of the various different beers on offer.

So enjoy it, but don%26#39;t abuse it :)

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I%26#39;ve had a terrible hangover after drinking waaaayyy too much Czech beer. It was not your usual kind, though. It was unfiltered kvasnicove from Pivovarsky Dum.

It was a different sort of hangover. This beer is still a living organism, if you drink too much of it (and around 20 pints is too much) you will regret it the next day. My brain seemed to be floating in olive oil and my limbs would not follow orders. I couldn%26#39;t move out of bed until 4pm or so.

But that was the only time....

MAX

http://pivni-filosof.blogspot.com/