Lobkowicz Knight
This bottle is 5%abv. BB 08/12/06, served chilled in a full-pint pilsner glass. A: pours a pale golden hue, coming with a thick, white foamy head, retreating slowly to a thin carpet covering the top of a gently carbonated body. Quite decent. S: grassy Saaz comes hand in had with a good-bodied and juicy, semi-caramely maltiness and semi-corn-ish grainy note laced with a slightly dusty touch, a fragrant honeyish hint and a pleasant banana-oil like fruitiness at the back, esp. after a good swirl. Overall the aroma is well-mixed, typical of a good malty yet reasonably hoppy Czech Pilsner. T: slightly metallic at first, coupled with a smooth flow of sweet malty foretaste... yet gradually a thinner, grainy taste, like adjuncts, make its appearance~~ salvaged just in time by an undercurrent of dryish-grassy hoppyness of Saaz that takes time to creep down the palate; wrapping up with a medium-length aftertaste of clean bitterness of hops and a faintly sugary malty tail. M&D: softly-carbonated and quite clean--just ideal for a lager (at least for my palate); the medium-plus hop content and the balance obtained with the good body of malts make this bottle a decent example of what the Czech people have to offer to the worlds colourful beer scene. I believe the draught version should be much better, and I look forward to tyring it in my next trip to Bohemia~~