Perla Chmielowa (Hop Pearl)
Perla Browary Lubelskie S.A.

Perla Chmielowa (Hop Pearl)Perla Chmielowa (Hop Pearl)
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From:
Perla Browary Lubelskie S.A.
 
Poland
Style:
European Pale Lager
Ranked #47
ABV:
6%
Score:
78
Ranked #26,842
Avg:
3.41 | pDev: 15.84%
Reviews:
84
Ratings:
147
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 27, 2023
Added:
Jul 22, 2002
Wants:
  7
Gots:
  16
Perła Chmielowa is the leading product of the brewery. The finest quality ingredients, the use of the best hops of the Lubelskie region, and the original centuries old recipe have the greatest influence on the unique attributes of this beer, its characteristic bitterness and the golden color. Owing to this Perła Chmielowa is able to meet the demands of the most exacting gourmets and boast worldwide appreciation.
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Reviewed by Ant777uk from England

1.6/5  rDev -53.1%
look: 2.25 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
Re-reviewing...usual Perla Export is a bit dry and low in flavour and excitement...this supposedly has more hops, so hopefully it's an improvement.

I'm very impressed with it's 6%, No sign of any ingredient on the label...

Looks pretty good, aroma is empty carbon dioxide, and musky fermented malt.

More sweet than I was expecting. Surely extra hops makes it more bitter? Similarly, the Lech Pils is sweeter than the usual Lech. I think in Poland, they get confused between hops and sugar. I'm serious.

Much too sweet for me. There is some interesting flavour happening...kind of a sweet honey, prunes, maybe some dates. I'm not sure what the difference is in taste between prunes and dates. I'm not even sure about the difference in their appearance either. It definitely tastes a bit like at least one of them.

This is called the hop version, but I don't taste much hops at all. For some reason, my 2nd glass has more flavour. Perhaps it needed a bit of a shake before I drank it. It's far too sweet but there are definitely some interesting flavours happening for sure. Please add more hops and less sugar! This could become an amazing beer if they did. Unfortunately, it is actually an overtly sweet drink with subtle very flavorsome hops.

Mouth feel is ok, pretty good actually for a Polish beer.

This is far too sweet. The hops are wasted completely.
Dec 27, 2023
 
Rated: 3.41 by Robertas from Lithuania

Sep 09, 2023
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Reviewed by monkist from Hungary

3.68/5  rDev +7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
The can says it’s a Pils but still it is a Euro Lager? Doesn’t quite taste like one but it doesn’t taste like a 100% pilsner either. It claims to be a hopped version and you can actually feel the intensity, although I don’t know the original. There is a slight cheap quality lingering over it, trademark of the Euro Lagers but in a way it is slightly better. Well, no matter what it is, it can pass as a German Pilsner no problem.
Mar 16, 2023
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

3.52/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Bottle purchased at Polska Chata in Irondequoit, NY.

This one pours a very clear golden yellow color, with a small foamy head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like sweet grain, grassy hops, and bread dough.

This is definitely reasonably tasty, but definitely a bit too sweet for the pale lager style – there’s a sweet doughiness and graininess that the grassy hop character just can’t overcome. The sweetness is less present when the beer is colder, in the frosted pint glass they serve the beer in here.

This is lighter bodied, crisp, clean, and very drinkable.

I want a bit more bite and less sweetness, but I do still enjoy this.
Nov 21, 2022
 
Rated: 3.87 by balizz

Jun 09, 2021
 
Rated: 3.21 by Dentist666 from Russian Federation

May 11, 2021
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Reviewed by elnachooo from Spain

2.25/5  rDev -34%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
Cerveza de color dorado, con un dedo espumoso de poca durabilidad. Cuerpo ligero y carbonatación media. Aroma lupulado y a pan. Sabor ligeramente dulce.
Apr 27, 2021
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Reviewed by Danzifer from Ohio

3.41/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear golden. Nice thick fine head. Smells a little strange, very boozy. Sort of an odd taste too, but I can get behind it. It is from halfway around the world after all, certainly not something we're used to in the Midwest. Mouthfeel is pretty crisp. It's pretty rich in character for a pilsner. Decent.
Dec 17, 2020
 
Rated: 3.5 by NickThePyro from Washington

Nov 02, 2020
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Reviewed by Foyle from North Carolina

3.43/5  rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Poured from 500ml bottle into pilsner glass. A thick, foamy white head drops slowly with mild lacing. Color is slightly hazy light gold with abundant carbonation. Aroma is pungent grains, grassy hops, and bread dough. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium and frothy with a drying finish. Flavor is quite sweet, malt dominate with hops taking a backseat. Overall: good but a little cloying. Would not want to drink more than one in a session.
Sep 25, 2020
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Reviewed by EmperorBevis from England

2.97/5  rDev -12.9%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Canned in a big old 500ml can and purchased whilst waiting at the chip shop for my order at the convenience store next door
Pours a crystal clear light wheat coloured body with massive thick white head
Aroma is glucose and rice powder
Flavour is not much more than the aroma, some slight hempish notes
Sep 06, 2020
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England

2.53/5  rDev -25.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
L- Quite pale gold, clear, pours with a thin head of curiously large (2-3mm) white bubbles that fast clears to a thin ring.
S- So mild, almost nothing, perhaps just just bready grain.
T- Quite zesty and bright, I suspect that is as much from dissolved CO2 as hops as it's edge reminds me of the dry/zesty edge in soda water. The flavour is pretty austere, a bit cardboardy, a bit over-carbonated factory generic lager.
F- On a hot day, at that mountain-top beer-shack you've spent 10 hours hiking towards you would be grateful to have one of these. One word I'd use is refreshing. There are a couple of others too, but I better keep them to myself.
O- The beer has the profile of a brew that's had too much of a monopoly in it's native market, so it's decidely average yet to be found everywhere. Like Tiger Beer in Singapore. Like Long Life/Harp/Double Diamond/etc/ect back in 1970's UK.
There is nothing about this beer that would lead me to buy it again. It's dull and characterless even compared to UK/under-license brewed Stella and Kronenbourg...
Bought from a convenience shop, Oksa Quality Food, 117 Clarendon Road, in London W11. £1.30/500ml can BB: 02/02/2021.
Jul 24, 2020
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Reviewed by IceChuggington from Canada (AB)

2.13/5  rDev -37.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
When I was in Lublin for 6 weeks everyone who had this beer did not want it again. People were resorting to Heineken over this, but our main bar ran out of Heineken after just 3 weeks. This is like a poor mans Heineken, it attempts to be neutral but still leaves a poor aftertaste to it. Eh it ca deserve 2 Smirnoff Ices/10
Jun 19, 2020
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Rated by HighBrowandLowenBrau from Minnesota

3.57/5  rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Tried on Tap at The Perłowa Beer House on 9/7/2018

I thought it was a serviceable lager, fairly generic but nothing offputting about it
Jun 01, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by redleg64 from Michigan

Feb 15, 2020
 
Rated: 3.62 by Rollmeaway2loadout from Illinois

Oct 20, 2019
 
Rated: 3.88 by L3ntoo from Illinois

Apr 21, 2019
 
Rated: 2.81 by chiefz1 from New York

Mar 26, 2019
 
Rated: 3 by cryptichead from Illinois

Mar 15, 2019
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Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts

3.36/5  rDev -1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear, gold in color with 1/2 inch head. Taste is grass, honey, and dark bread. Medium light bodied, sweet, with moderate carbonation. Makes for a nice and clean crisp lager. Could do a couple.
Dec 03, 2018
Perla Chmielowa (Hop Pearl) from Perla Browary Lubelskie S.A.
Beer rating: 78 out of 100 with 147 ratings