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Primator Dark Lager
Pivovar Náchod a.s.
- From:
- Pivovar Náchod a.s.
- Czechia
- Style:
- Czech Dark Lager
Ranked #62 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 82
Ranked #24,709 - Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 13.89%
- Reviews:
- 32
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 17, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 14, 2003
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 5
A dark option of Czech lager, created using four types of malt and Czech hop varieties. The combination of special colour malts gives the beer a full caramel flavour with traces of roasted black coffee and dried plums. Round malt flavour, decent bitterness, velvet foam absolutely invite you to take another sip and nibble something sweet.
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Ratings by grahuba:
Rated by grahuba from Connecticut
3.87/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Apr 04, 2015
3.87/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Apr 04, 2015
More User Ratings:
Rated by Captain69 from Illinois
3.97/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
creamy malty lager great beer to the finish
Oct 24, 2021Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.58/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Very dark brown with tow fingers of off-white foam. Smoked earthy hops and malts with dried dark fruit in the nose. Taste is sweeter, dark fruit and chocolate emerge but are cut off by the robust smoky and earthy malts. Feel was malty, chewy, dark, smoky, yet smooth and thin. Less sweet and I would like this more
Dec 04, 2020Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.5/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Draft at Tres Bonne Cuisine. Dark brown, some light peeking through, fluffy beige head. Roast grain, musty aroma. Taste also reflects the roast grains. Some chocolaty notes in the back. Smooth, enjoyable.
Nov 29, 2019Reviewed by FBarber from Illinois
3.9/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.9/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Beer pours a reddish tinged dark dark brown color. Thin one finger tan head. Head dissipates steadily, but not completely. Light comes through, but the beer is still fully opaque.
Aroma has notes of dark rustic bread, pumpernickel, with some light cola like notes. Hints of a slight cherry and dark fruit notes, but its subtle.
Taste has notes of dark fruits, bready malts, some light sweetness, and spicy hops on the back end.
Feel is medium bodied, pretty smooth with a moderate carbonation.
Overall a nice beer. I found that it fell somewhere between a Czech Dark lager and a bock.
Mar 29, 2019Aroma has notes of dark rustic bread, pumpernickel, with some light cola like notes. Hints of a slight cherry and dark fruit notes, but its subtle.
Taste has notes of dark fruits, bready malts, some light sweetness, and spicy hops on the back end.
Feel is medium bodied, pretty smooth with a moderate carbonation.
Overall a nice beer. I found that it fell somewhere between a Czech Dark lager and a bock.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.92/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
500ml bottle - we don't get a lot of tmavy pivo around these parts.
This beer pours a clear, dark chestnut brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some decent layered streaky lace around the glass as it rather lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, bruised apples and pears, a bit of oily nuttiness, faint cocoa powder, and some very tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, muddled black stone fruit, ethereal bittersweet chocolate, subtle wet char, some bar-top nuts, and more understated leafy, weedy, and grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its insouciant frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of smokiness taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, and dark fruity esters presiding.
Overall - this comes across as adjacent to a prototypical version of the style (Czech Dark Lager, that is, not the generic one listed above). Flavourful, easy to drink, and with a sub-average ABV that would make it a no-brainer for multiple rounds in an ancient pub, sitting at tank-like wooden tables.
Jan 16, 2018This beer pours a clear, dark chestnut brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some decent layered streaky lace around the glass as it rather lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, bruised apples and pears, a bit of oily nuttiness, faint cocoa powder, and some very tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, muddled black stone fruit, ethereal bittersweet chocolate, subtle wet char, some bar-top nuts, and more understated leafy, weedy, and grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its insouciant frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of smokiness taking things down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, and dark fruity esters presiding.
Overall - this comes across as adjacent to a prototypical version of the style (Czech Dark Lager, that is, not the generic one listed above). Flavourful, easy to drink, and with a sub-average ABV that would make it a no-brainer for multiple rounds in an ancient pub, sitting at tank-like wooden tables.
Reviewed by patre_tim from Thailand
3.24/5 rDev -10%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev -10%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Dark brown with a ruby tinge, topped with a foamy, chocolatey head.
Some toasted notes, slightly nutty, a hint of molasses.
Light but not watery body, foamy carbonation adds more substance.
Not bad, not wowing, but a solid brew.
Jun 26, 2015Some toasted notes, slightly nutty, a hint of molasses.
Light but not watery body, foamy carbonation adds more substance.
Not bad, not wowing, but a solid brew.
Reviewed by Dentist666 from Russian Federation
3.6/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.6/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Clear mahogany beer with beige head, not as long retention. Smell - caramel, kvass, cocoa.
Flavour - rather sweet: cocoa, roasted malts.
Light body, soft carbonation. Enjoyable czech dark lager.
Jun 15, 2015Flavour - rather sweet: cocoa, roasted malts.
Light body, soft carbonation. Enjoyable czech dark lager.
Reviewed by FLima from Brazil
3.53/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Dark brown color with a thick beige head with medium retention.
Nice and malty aroma with notes of chocolate, nuts, grains and cocoa.
Flavor with notes of chocolate, mild spicy and earthy hops, cocoa, maybe some prunes, cookies and grains. Mildly dry aftertaste with a low bitterness.
Light body with good carbonation.
Extremely easy to drink, you sure can session this Dark Lager. This is a liquid non-fat unsweetened chocolate cookie.
May 25, 2015Nice and malty aroma with notes of chocolate, nuts, grains and cocoa.
Flavor with notes of chocolate, mild spicy and earthy hops, cocoa, maybe some prunes, cookies and grains. Mildly dry aftertaste with a low bitterness.
Light body with good carbonation.
Extremely easy to drink, you sure can session this Dark Lager. This is a liquid non-fat unsweetened chocolate cookie.
Primator Dark Lager from Pivovar Náchod a.s.
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
72 ratings
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