Pale Ale
Zmajska Pivovara

Enjoyed: Poured from a bottle into English pint glass.
Appearance: Vivid amber/orange colour, medium head which soon gets smaller with nice lacing.
Aroma: Excellent fragrance of flowers, grass, hops, fruits.
Palate: Medium body, gentle carbonation.
Taste: Malt, fruits, tropic, mango, citrus, pine, herbs, hops, gently sweet with nice bittersweet aftertaste.
Overall impression: Excellent, very aromatic and tasty, refreshing.

 

500 ml bottle. Pours orange with fluffy white. Aroma is of piney hops, ripe fruit and bready malt. Body is medium and crisp. Taste is of herbal, piney hops, ripe fruit and bready malt. Finish is long and dry. Nice brew.

I tried a 0.3L glass of this beer off the tapper at a bar in the old town area of Zagreb, Croatia. It poured a clear orangish with white head that left a very nice lace. The scent had subtle bitter hop and malt notes. The taste was nicely balanced an easy to drink with bitter hop presence that had citrus highlights. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a great beer.

Bottle. Light amber. Slight haze with a thin head.
Subdued aroma of citrus hops and the farmyard.
Caramel malt overcomes the hops upon tasting. A citrus pithy bitterness completes the flavour.
Medium body. Well carbonated.
Eventually all the parts come together quite well and the whole is an improvement upon the parts.

 

 

 

 

Rusty gold with legs. 4
Cascade flowers, grain sack and a whack of bubblegum. 4
Thread of caramel, then light nectar, peach, pine needles, and orange rind. 4
Light, crisp, slight oil. 3.75

Nose is yummy, if suspect - there are speck of esters in the body, too. Clean enough, though thin. Craft Beer 101. 3.75

 

Clear golden color, white head. Aroma has clean malt, some earthy hops but a also a hint of booze. Taste starts sweet and malty, slightly nutty with some dank hops in the background. Just a bit of bitterness on the finish. Light bodied but smooth on the palate. Not bad but it’s quite generic and boring.

A 330ml bottle my wife brought me back from Croatia. Pours a hazy amber colour with a off-white head. Aroma has caramel, flowers, herbs, grass & hops present. Taste has a malty caramel, with mellow orange citrus hoppy and tangy earthy bitterness in the finish. Medium bodied

 

Cean amber color, with a beautiful beige head.
Slightly malty smell, then hop, grassy and slightly citric.
In the taste a good clean bitterness, again light citric notes, and the hop.
Quite long aftertaste, bitter, pleasant.
Clean and well balanced. Not a masterpiece, but easily drinkable.

 

 

 

 

500ml Draught from Tolkien's House, Zagreb (22 kuna):
A very nice & refreshing pale ale, easy to drink with a tonne of fruits & hops with some sweetness towards the end helping the balance. Definitely one that exceeded my expectations & probably rates as the single best Croatian beer I've tried to date, although the same brewery's Porter runs it close.