Hip Czech
Victory Brewing Company - Downingtown

16oz can into a pint glass. Best by 4/30/19, so three months late here.

Very pale golden yellow body with good streams of carbonation. Initial good white head dissipates to a ring and covering, leaving little lacing.

Aroma is malty and oddly apple.

Sweet malty taste, and hops have slipped into the background. Quite smooth, easy drinking, nice malt presence.

Mouth around medium, finish gives a little of that lager bite.

Overall, another beer in the parade of drinkable summer lagers, not bad in any way, but nothing to make you sit up and say "wow".

 

Very smooth and easy drinking. Not as much bite as Prima Pils, Victory's flagship pilsner. I usually pick this up when I see it because it's not as common in stores around me as much as Prima is.

Look: Crystal clear amber with a rapidly receding white head.
Smell: Malt and hops -- the hop aroma has some light citrus notes. Some sulfury lager aroma.
Taste: Tart lemon citrus, cracker-like malt sweetness, and bitter, spicy, herbal hops hit the palate all at once. Small hints of caramel. Small hints of berry fruitiness.
Feel: Thin, crisp, light, and refreshing. Prickly carbonation.
Overall: This is a nice, solid, delicious lager -- it's hard to imagine how it could be improved.

Victory Brewing Co. "Hip Czech"
16 fl. oz. can, "ENJOY BY: 19 APR 2019 181343 FL DON'T BE A HOSER" and sampled on 30 APR 2019

Look: Slightly hazy light gold body beneath a full head of bright white foam that holds well and leaves some very nice lacing about the glass.

Smell: Saaz hops and light Pilsner malt. Floral, lightly spicy, grainy, grassy, and subtly sweet. Exactly as a Czech Pilsner should be.

Taste: Exactly as the aroma suggests it will be with an additional note of herbal character and the suggestion of lemon. It's not really that bitter but it finishes dry with some residual earthy and spicy hops and a suggestion of lemon. Beautifully balanced and rounded, and superbly polished, this is a really well made beer.

Feel: Light-medium in body and crisp with a fine-bubbled carbonation.

Overall: Hip Czech is an excellent take on a Czech Pilsner that delivers on flavor while lightening the maltiness by just a bit. It's refreshing and highly drinkable.

Review #6,566

Poured into a hotel glass. A crystal-clear pale straw color with a medium sized white head. Nice floral aroma - brighter than most Czech Pilsners. Clean grain there as well. Taste was also quite clean and crisp; somewhat assertive Saaz flavor but not overly bitter, Cracker and white bready malt flavor. An outstanding beer that feels bigger than it is.

 

A - Light to medium yellow gold color.

S - Honey malt aroma with light citrus and some earthiness.

T - Honey crackery crisp malt, some floral and citrus, light earthy, a little grassy with some lemon pepper spice on the back end with some crisp citrus bitterness. Ends crisp.

M - Light medium body and dry.

O - Victory did a nice job with this one. An easy drinker and dig the crisp citrus and dry finish.

DATE: January 1, 2018... OCCASION: Penn State goes for its third-straight ten-plus win season against Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl... GLASSWARE: Penn State pilsner... pours a copious amount of thick white head, bubbling and cambering above a vibrant upward rush of bubbles... its light golden body is mostly clear, and its head arches and clusters in fingers.... first scents are toasted bread malts, a hint of butter, onion and spice... light citrus--lemon grass, mostly--mixes with hay and pepper to build an intriguing introduction... first sip is medium-bodied, smooth and textured enough to be appreciated... lemon drop, hay and grass, lilac and flower, sweet bread and light spice, and a pervasive sweetness ... the Noble hops make this enjoyable and builds beyond the usual malty lager... Victory continues to make quality lagers, each a variation on the theme of being more than merely tailgating fare....

-Can.

A: Pale golden straw pour shows a respectable amount of fluffy white capping that sticks long and true per style for visual sake. Good clarity, fair crisp carbonation with a small amount of window dressing.

S: Small Saaz spiciness on the nose, grainy pils malt, with hints of green apple. Damp floral notes and some spicy herbal.

T: The flavor was somewhat sweet from the grains, combined with some spicy Saaz hops, and some herbal hints. Green apple as with the nose, crackers, and some dank floral. A bit of musky straw rounds things out.

M: The mouthful was somewhat crisp, a decent lager base, with a yeasty bite.

O: Overall a pretty decent flavor for a small abv 4.4%. Yeasty, with some damp floral, crackers and pils malt. Musky at times, though the hops were not so much as a hip check, as an accidental bumping into. A single suffices.

 

Clear pale yellow with good effervescence and a finger of near-white head that leaves pretty rings of lacing.

Grassy, spicy, floral hops, biscuity malt and some sulfur in the nose.

Nice clean taste that follows the aroma and has a just enough bitterness to keep it punchy.

Lightly creamy feel.

An all-around excellent pilsner perfect for watching hockey or any other sport. Super drinkable and refreshing.

 

 

 

The clear pale golden yellow colored beer pours out into a Duvel glass with 1 1/2” fluffy white head that soon begins to slowly but visibly recede to a ring and an island of foam on the surface while leaving an open web of patches and legs of lacing on the sides of the glass. Sipping creates some scattered small patches of lacing, most of which cling to the sides of the glass.

The gentle aromas are filled with the earthy herbal spiciness of the Saaz hops. There’s also some nice light bready malt here.

The flavors are much as expected from the nose with the light earthy herbal spiciness from the hops backed up by the light bready malt backbone. The light sweetness from the malt is a nice counterbalance to the light spicy, earthy and herbal bitterness.

The mouthfeel is on the light side of medium bodied and a bit crisp with the persistent finely bubbled carbonation. The finish begins as the sweetness of the malt and the spicy earthy and herbal herbal bitterness both begin to slowly recedes and move toward the back of the palate where the long dry ending still shows just a bit of earthy and herbal bitterness.

Overall, this beer is a fresh, clean, crisp and refreshing. The subtle complexity of the aromas/flavors make this a very drinkable beer which I’m enjoying more than I do most Bohemian style Pils beers. It seems to me to be a pretty good example of the style and one that touches most or all of the bases, I could easily have this one again or more than one in a row.

 

 

I thought this was ok. Nothing great ....just decent. Seemed a little citra up front and gritty on the finish. Reminded me of Anchor California lager.