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A gadge on the peeve with Zywiec

Advantages: Refreshing
Disadvantages: A long way to go for a pint

ZYWIEC is a beer that is best drunk and not pronounced. Our travels brought us to a stopover in Zabrze, a grim, grey and gritty industrial city in Poland. There wasn't a lot to do so we had a walk round the shopping district where we found that ther ...

proxam 10.08.2002 · Read full review
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Still can't pronounce it

Advantages: Refreshing, good flavour
Disadvantages: Moderately expensive, unpronounceable

I first came across this beer in a Polish club (in Bristol, not an actual club in Poland unfortunately), where it was significantly cheaper than anywhere else I've ever had it, so I got a favourable first impression of this beer (in case anyone reading th ...

simonscott36 04.07.2006 · Read full review
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Plzensky Prazdroj, Czech out this beer

Advantages: The original, the one and only, the genuine import
Disadvantages: But for how long

This is the classic beer from the Czech republic. It shares many similarities with lagers and pilsners from Eastern Europe. The brewery has been in operation since 1842 using only water, hops and malt. In contrast to Budweiser Budvar and Staropramen ( ...

Newfloridian 16.01.2003 · Read full review
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Peeve fi Plzen

Advantages: Crisp and refreshing
Disadvantages: None

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), in the Czech Republi ...

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Pilsner Urquell - A Czech National Treasure...

Advantages: Crisp, cold, mellow, tangy, and clean tasting...a National treasure.
Disadvantages: The bottled stuff you get in the UK & abroad is a shadow of the unpasteurised tank beer.

...For this review I thought I would leave my computer and go "on location" - when writing a review about the Czech Republic's most famous beer, it's really handy to be living down the road from one of best Pilsner pubs in the country! "Hostinec U Blahovky" ...

Midwinter 21.08.2011 · Read full review
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