Saint Norbert IPA
Klášterní pivovar Strahov
- From:
- Klášterní pivovar Strahov
- Czechia
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #687 - ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 91
Ranked #10,205 - Avg:
- 4.12 | pDev: 16.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 08, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 10, 2010
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
91
Outstanding
91
Outstanding
We introduce a new special guest in our brewery. It is India Pale Ale (IPA) and its history comes from Great Britain. IPAs was brewed for long distance transports to India and with its high bitterness was inspiration for European brewmasters to create bitter lagers. Our IPA is top-fermented beer brewed from Czech ingredientes and two kinds of American hops (Amarillo and Cascade). It combines full malt body with high hop bitterness and hoppy aroma. All the year round.
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Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington
4/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from 500mL can into my Higgins Ale Works tulip. Picked up this can today at the brewery; packaged 9/22/25, best by 3/22/26.
Appearance: medium golden hue with a light, shimmery haze and a huge head of 3+ fingers of frothy ivory foam. It poured crazy foamy! But the can doesn’t seem infected or anything like that — they just carbonate ‘em up good in Czechia, I guess.
Smell: moderately sweet malt with a bready character. The hops are earthy, resiney, and a little piney in character. A classic American IPA profile.
Taste: rich malt flavor with that same breadiness from the aroma, and perhaps a bit of diacetyl that actually kind of works here. Hops have a nice resinous quality, and bitterness is present but not super high relative to the sweetness. It’s a pretty solid IPA.
Mouthfeel: medium body with a pretty good carbonation and creaminess.
Overall: yeah, a perfectly cromulent IPA. One of the best, if not THE best, IPA I’ve had in Czechia. Good job, Strahov!
Nov 08, 2025Appearance: medium golden hue with a light, shimmery haze and a huge head of 3+ fingers of frothy ivory foam. It poured crazy foamy! But the can doesn’t seem infected or anything like that — they just carbonate ‘em up good in Czechia, I guess.
Smell: moderately sweet malt with a bready character. The hops are earthy, resiney, and a little piney in character. A classic American IPA profile.
Taste: rich malt flavor with that same breadiness from the aroma, and perhaps a bit of diacetyl that actually kind of works here. Hops have a nice resinous quality, and bitterness is present but not super high relative to the sweetness. It’s a pretty solid IPA.
Mouthfeel: medium body with a pretty good carbonation and creaminess.
Overall: yeah, a perfectly cromulent IPA. One of the best, if not THE best, IPA I’ve had in Czechia. Good job, Strahov!
Reviewed by mikeyv35 from New York
4.4/5 rDev +6.8%
4.4/5 rDev +6.8%
Date: 09/30/14
Type: 0.33l Bottle
Best By: Hand Written 18.12.14 or 12/18/14, making the bottling 09/18/14
Glass: Fiddlehead Jar
ABV: 6.3%
*First off, I want to thank my good friend Dave who was kind enough to bring me back two bottles of this brew to sample from his recent vacation to Prague. Probably the best beer brewed in the Czech Republic, and the only American style IPA brewed in the country. Thank you brother!
Pours a murky light caramel in color w/ a 1/2 finger white head that lingers and produces good amounts of lacing on the glass. Aromas of light pine, grapefruit, and this unique bubble gum/cotton candy scent. The flavor was of initial bubblegum/cotton candy sweetness immediately leading into pine and grapefruit, and closes w/ mild dank basement bitterness that is somewhat herbal. Medium bodied and lush w/ slightly higher end carbonation. You could without a doubt session this beer w/ no signs of ABV in the sip. Plus, you would expect no less from one of the top beer consuming nations in the world per capita.
Overall, a real unique and special treat from this low alcohol Pilsner rich nation! This brew could w/o a doubt hold it's own against the IPAs brewed in the US and receive high marks. My guess is they used a Pilsner malt base in concocting this unique foreign IPA.
Oct 01, 2014Type: 0.33l Bottle
Best By: Hand Written 18.12.14 or 12/18/14, making the bottling 09/18/14
Glass: Fiddlehead Jar
ABV: 6.3%
*First off, I want to thank my good friend Dave who was kind enough to bring me back two bottles of this brew to sample from his recent vacation to Prague. Probably the best beer brewed in the Czech Republic, and the only American style IPA brewed in the country. Thank you brother!
Pours a murky light caramel in color w/ a 1/2 finger white head that lingers and produces good amounts of lacing on the glass. Aromas of light pine, grapefruit, and this unique bubble gum/cotton candy scent. The flavor was of initial bubblegum/cotton candy sweetness immediately leading into pine and grapefruit, and closes w/ mild dank basement bitterness that is somewhat herbal. Medium bodied and lush w/ slightly higher end carbonation. You could without a doubt session this beer w/ no signs of ABV in the sip. Plus, you would expect no less from one of the top beer consuming nations in the world per capita.
Overall, a real unique and special treat from this low alcohol Pilsner rich nation! This brew could w/o a doubt hold it's own against the IPAs brewed in the US and receive high marks. My guess is they used a Pilsner malt base in concocting this unique foreign IPA.
Reviewed by djura from Serbia
4.7/5 rDev +14.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.7/5 rDev +14.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Got it from Czech republic. Bottle 0,33l
A - Really beautiful honey dark orange color. White foam, leaving nice lacing.
S - Honey with huge hops aroma. Intensive smell of above average IPA smell.
T/M - Can't describe how beautiful this is! ok, it is classic IPA, but really good. Highly drinkable, fresh, right amount of carbonation, bitter aftertaste, really refreshing. Also full of taste, again some honey, a bit more sweetness. It must be cold to taste it right. Hops, barley, everything is in the mouth.
O - One of the best !
May 20, 2014A - Really beautiful honey dark orange color. White foam, leaving nice lacing.
S - Honey with huge hops aroma. Intensive smell of above average IPA smell.
T/M - Can't describe how beautiful this is! ok, it is classic IPA, but really good. Highly drinkable, fresh, right amount of carbonation, bitter aftertaste, really refreshing. Also full of taste, again some honey, a bit more sweetness. It must be cold to taste it right. Hops, barley, everything is in the mouth.
O - One of the best !
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Klašterní Pivovar Strahov India Pale Ale
on tap at the brewery, 31.12.2013; .4l mug for 64 Kč (@$3.12)
6.3% abv, 16˚Plato, unfiltered
Hazy amber body beneath a thick, creamy off-white head that displays excellent retention and leaves broken sheets and rings of lace about the glass as it goes. The aroma is malty sweet, laced with citrusy/fruity and gently grassy hops. The flavor follows suit, and it's delicately caramelish and brightly fruity (perhaps from the Amarillo) with the citrusy hops seeming to float on top. Surprisingly sweet for an "American IPA". Rich. Moderate bitterness. Low for the style, but it works here if you put the IPA designation out of your mind... think strong hoppy ale. A dextrinous medium body leaves it creamy-smooth across the palate with just a delicate bristle of carbonation to keep it from becoming dull. It finishes drying with both residual malt and hops left over in the long-lingering finish. Overall: a good beer but not an IPA.
Feb 05, 2014on tap at the brewery, 31.12.2013; .4l mug for 64 Kč (@$3.12)
6.3% abv, 16˚Plato, unfiltered
Hazy amber body beneath a thick, creamy off-white head that displays excellent retention and leaves broken sheets and rings of lace about the glass as it goes. The aroma is malty sweet, laced with citrusy/fruity and gently grassy hops. The flavor follows suit, and it's delicately caramelish and brightly fruity (perhaps from the Amarillo) with the citrusy hops seeming to float on top. Surprisingly sweet for an "American IPA". Rich. Moderate bitterness. Low for the style, but it works here if you put the IPA designation out of your mind... think strong hoppy ale. A dextrinous medium body leaves it creamy-smooth across the palate with just a delicate bristle of carbonation to keep it from becoming dull. It finishes drying with both residual malt and hops left over in the long-lingering finish. Overall: a good beer but not an IPA.
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