Big Rock Saaz Republic Pilz - Big Rock Brewery

BigBry

Alberta (Canada)

3.25/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

A new style, in the new 473 ml can format. Had seen this on the Big Rock website, and got to sample it a Beerfest. Finally found a can for myself, sold as singles.

Yellow, straw color. Clear with a short, bright white head. Foam fades quickly but leaves a thin lacing ring. Some smell of sweet malt, hint of hoppiness. Tastes quite clean with some more malt sweetness and light, slightly spicy hops.
Mouthfeel is thin, not a lot of body, but that does keep it drinkable and not heavy or bloating.
Decent offering, but I was hoping for more crispness, and hop bite.

Serving type: can

03-24-2013 23:36:08 | More by BigBry

kitsgrad84

Alberta (Canada)

2.55/5  rDev -21.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

I try and try to support big rock brewery but continue to be let down by below average brews.
I was so looking forward to a good local pilz in czech tradition , but was let down yet again by a very, very, overrated brewery. I cannot wait to revisit Praha again and sample all the local beverages.

mild bitterness
very mild hop
bitter end not clean like it should be
semi dirty head that was short lived
i agree with others as a faux craft pilz : (

Serving type: bottle

03-10-2013 20:19:40 | More by kitsgrad84

mattsander

Alberta (Canada)

2.58/5  rDev -20.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Another phony 'craft' offering from faux craft brewer big rock.

A: Remarkable clarity, no head, big carb.

S: Cereals, cheap skunky lager beer and sweet corn.

T: Entirely unoffensive, nearly flavorless.

M: Thin, drinkable, blehhh.

Little to no hop character, especially pathetic considering this beer is named after the worlds most popular aroma hop.

Just another pile of swill from big rock.

Serving type: can

03-03-2013 02:48:52 | More by mattsander

kjyost

Manitoba (Canada)

3.65/5  rDev +12.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

355 mL bottle acquired at the MLCC for just over $2. Poured ~5C into a Perfect Pint glass.

A: Straw yellow, crystal clear. 1 finger of white head that drops quickly but leaves a ring and some lacing through the drink.
S: Clean nose with a bit of sweet malt and perhaps a hint of hop aroma. Really wished for more hop aroma to come through.
T: Clean body with a hint of fruity at the end. Some sweet malt came through with a hint of bitterness keeping it down. A fair dose of spicy (black pepper?) hops comes through the middle of the sip.
M: No buildup up of bitterness, nice fluffy carbonation that bites back very slightly.
O: Came in expecting nothing though someone else had said it was "nice". Pilsners are nice, but not normally my bag. Quite well done for what it was.

Serving type: bottle

11-13-2012 23:59:17 | More by kjyost

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

3.38/5  rDev +4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

341ml bottle. Thanks to Melanie, the local Big Rock rep, for the samples.

This beer pours a crystal clear, pale golden yellow hue, with one fat finger of foamy, bubbly ecru head, which leaves but a few lingering upshots of tendril lace around the glass as it quickly settles.

It smells of bready, doughy malt, overcooked cereal at times, and grassy, teetering on skunky, weedy hops. The taste is more bready, retarded (you know how I mean it) sourdough malt, a very slight bit of indistinct fruitiness, and grassy (but more and more of the dead, out of season variety), fallow farmers' field hops. At least that initial aromatic skank has wafted off, I gotta say.

The bubbles are generally quite soft and unobtrusive, the body a decent medium weight, and smooth without reservation. It finishes off-dry, the tepid cereal malt happy to have the focus shifted by the lingering musty, dead-ass grass hops.

While a sight better than their previous 'Czech-style Pils' (how I so derisively remember those pandering billboards from a few years ago - buh-bye, XO Lager), this offering still has a way to go to properly stand aside the greats of the style, or at the very least those available here in Alberta, where Big Rock should have no trouble standing tall, ahem.

Serving type: bottle

09-22-2012 04:44:09 | More by biboergosum

joemcgrath27

Alberta (Canada)

3.08/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

A - straw golden, very bubbly with a thumb of head that retains due to the endless stream of carbonation, no significant lacing
S - there is a hint of the grassy and metallic hops but aroma is mostly adjunct dominated with some grain
T - the grassy clean hop notes are there but just not enough, much like the nose grainy malt and adjunct flavours are equally present
M - crisp and clean, slightly thin, finishes dry and mildly bitter
O - potential is not quite reached, i agree with the previous comment that they need to beef up the saaz hops to get this more into the true czech pils realm, not a bad effort though

Serving type: bottle

09-10-2012 01:56:42 | More by joemcgrath27

wordemupg

Alberta (Canada)

2.98/5  rDev -8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

341ml bottle poured into pint glass 7/9/12

A looks the part with some bright yellow liquid with several streams of big bubbles with a thumbs width of foam that leaves a few patches of lace

S mostly just dry cereals with very faint noble hops, not really much going on here

T some grass and hay but the noble hops are faint, there's some compared too the nose but its more grains then anything

M bubbles give it some life and you know there's a clean finish because there wasn't much flavor to begin with, at least its not watery

O pretty basic stuff, not offensive other then the dead nose, but again the smell was far from offensive there was just too little too offend

I can see potential here but they need too double the Saaz, there's just not enough for the style.
At least Big Rocks trying new styles but this one didn't really do it for me

Serving type: bottle

09-08-2012 03:59:32 | More by wordemupg